Institutional Pharmacy describes the range of services provided by pharmacists to residents of nursing homes, hospitals, or hospice environments. Unlike hospitals, most long-term care facilities (such as skilled nursing or assisted living facilities) do not have on-site pharmacies to dispense prescription drugs, but depend instead on institutional pharmacies to provide the necessary pharmacy products and services and to play an integral role in monitoring patient medication. In addition to providing pharmaceuticals, institutional pharmacies provide consulting services, which include monitoring the control, distribution and administration of drugs within the long-term care facility and assisting in compliance with applicable regulations. In their role as medication therapy experts, institutional pharmacists take responsibility for their patients' medication-related needs; ensure that their patients' medications are the most appropriate, the most effective, the safest possible, and are used correctly; and identify, resolve and prevent medication-related problems that may interfere with goals of therapy. Knowledge Source's 2006 Institutional Pharmacies Market Overview, 210 pgs. in length, includes the Industry's Overview and Trends. In a market dominated by three leading providers, our Institutional Pharmacies Market Overview also includes brief profiles of nearly forty market participants.