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Kittitas Valley Healthcare
Ellensburg, Washington

Pharmacist - Full Time (40 hours/week)

PharmacistIncludes callFull-Time

Listed compensation

starts at $61 /hr

The week · per this posting · weekdays assumed

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Posted 2mo ago

Job Description

Company Description

KVH is an integrated healthcare delivery system that includes 24-hour emergency care, inpatient, and outpatient hospital services through KVH Hospital. Clinics and services provided include family medicine, internal medicine, a geriatric nurse practitioner program, home health and hospice, physical therapy, orthopedics, general surgery, pediatrics, women’s health, and urgent care.

Kittitas Valley Healthcare expects all employees to uphold our Vision & Mission. The KVH Vision, Mission & Guiding Principles can be found at kvhealthcare.org.

KVH puts ‘employee care’ high on the priority list, with health benefits like low cost medical, dental, and vision insurance and a robust employee wellness program.

KVH offers company contribution toward your choice of medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage, including coverage available for spouses/ domestic partners, and dependent children. KVH believes that continuing education is critical to our mission and vision.

We have implemented many educational programs such as the Medical Assistant Apprenticeship program and certification pay toS encourage continuing education. We want our employees to know they are valued.

One of the ways we show this is by quickly vesting employees, making them pension eligible after just one year of part-time status. To view more details about the comprehensive benefits package we offer to eligible employees visit our website -

Benefits - KV Healthcare

kvhealthcare.org

Job Description

The staff pharmacist will be responsible for the provision of progressive and comprehensive pharmaceutical services to the hospital patients and the retail pharmacy. The staff pharmacist will work closely with other health care providers to ensure positive patient outcomes associated with safe medication practices.

The retail pharmacy fills prescriptions for KVH Hospice under a collaborative practice agreement with our Hospice Medical Director utilizing algorithms approved by the Board of Pharmacy

Qualifications

  • What is required...
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy
  • Current license to practice Pharmacy in the State of Washington
  • Familiarity with Automated Dispensing Cabinetry (ex. Pyxis)
  • Current CPR card (maintenance required)
  • Current PALS card (maintenance required)
  • What is preferred...
  • Two years’ work experience in a hospital setting
  • Amerisource Bergen, Cerner experience
  • CPOE, Emar, Rx Informatics experience
  • Bar Code at the Bedside experience
  • Retail Pharmacy Experience
  • Knowledge of the 340B Program
  • Prior experience with Hospice protocols and guidelines

Additional Information

Wage: Wage range currently starts at $61.21/hour and goes up to $92.78/hour. Actual wage will be based on years' of applicable experience.

  • FTE: 1.0 (40 hours/week)
  • Benefits: This position is benefits eligible
  • Union Status: This is a non-union covered position

Compensation: USD 61.21 - USD 92.78 - hourly

Key Responsibilities

The staff pharmacist provides comprehensive pharmaceutical services to hospital patients and the retail pharmacy. They collaborate with healthcare providers to ensure safe medication practices and positive patient outcomes.

Qualifications

Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Hospital pharmacyMedication safety

Pharmacist Career Context

Of the 45 active Pharmacy listings this role was benchmarked against, 42% are remote, 56% have no call, 60% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Washington is 107.0 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$160k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $150k in an average-cost state. 59.8% of Washington clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Pharmacist - Full Time (40 hours/week) at Kittitas Valley Healthcare a 6.1 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 25% in Pharmacy — ranked against 10,137 active Pharmacy listings on WeekdayDoc.

Location & Logistics

Washington has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states. At the posted ~$160k midpoint, that is roughly $6k–$11k a year versus a typical 4–7% state rate.

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks19 jobs · 14 employers

401k / retirement match
89% this job
Sign-on bonus
42%
Loan repayment
5%
Relocation assistance
5%
PSLF eligible
5%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

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Work-life snapshot

median 2.8this job 6.1
Better work-life than 90% of Pharmacy listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 10,137 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes call

Living in Ellensburg

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$464k
Typical market rent
$1,594/mo
Residents’ average commute
18 min
State income tax
None
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About Kittitas Valley Healthcare

Hospitals and Health Care
Ellensburg, WA
201-500 employees

Benefits & Perks

Low cost medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Employee wellness program
Pension eligible after one year
Continuing education programs
Certification pay