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An improved medication dispenser station is provided for controlled access storage of medications and other pharmaceuticals in a medical facility, such as a hospital or the like. The dispenser station comprises a housing with a plurality of normally locked drawers which have been preloaded with sele

An improved medication dispenser station is provided for controlled access storage of medications and other pharmaceuticals in a medical facility, such as a hospital or the like. The dispenser station comprises a housing with a plurality of normally locked drawers which have been preloaded with selected pharmaceutical items. A control unit on the housing is programmed to unlock the drawers one at a time to permit access to the contents thereof, with such access being contingent upon keyboard entry of a predetermined access code and other selected information sufficient to generate an access record. In a preferred form, each drawer includes multiple compartments containing multiple pharmaceutical items in a presorted array. One or more of the drawers desirably includes a multicompartment carousel tray which rotates in response to appropriate data entry via the keyboard to align and lock a designated compartment for access through an access opening in an overlying cover plate, thereby restricting access to a single compartment of the rotatable tray.

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A medication station, comprising: a station housing; a plurality of drawers carried by said station housing, each of said drawers being movable between an open position and a closed position, each of said drawers defining at least one compartment for containing a pharmaceutical item, said compartmen

A medication station, comprising: a station housing; a plurality of drawers carried by said station housing, each of said drawers being movable between an open position and a closed position, each of said drawers defining at least one compartment for containing a pharmaceutical item, said compartment being accessible to the exterior of the station housing when the drawer associated therewith is in the open position; and a control unit for selectively locking said drawers in the closed positions to prevent access to the drawer compartments, said control unit including keyboard entry means for entry of predetermined access data, lock means for selectively locking and unlocking said drawers, and controller means responsive to entry of said access data to selectively unlock at least one of said drawers while maintaining the remaining ones of said drawers in a locked condition to permit opening of said at least one of said drawers and access to the compartment defined thereby while preventing access to pharmaceutical items within said remaining ones of said drawers; at least one of said drawers having a carousel tray mounted therein and defining an access opening to permit access to one of said tray compartments, said control unit further including means for rotating said carousel tray within said drawer to a selected position aligning a selected one of the tray compartments with said access opening, and means for locking said tray in said selected position when said at least one drawer is moved to the open position.