Carilion Clinic's pharmacy residency program recently received national recognition.

The three-year accreditation from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists "helps demonstrate how Carilion Clinic is advancing the training of health care providers for the region and providing quality patient care," Wes Blankenship, director of clinical pharmacy services at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, said in a prepared statement.

Carilion's postgraduate one-year program for pharmacists is one of just two such programs in Southwest Virginia.

The ASHP accreditation program evaluates pharmacy programs and recognizes the ones that have met its standards.

-- Laurence Hammack