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How a Medical Waste Assessment Can Save Your Medical Practice Money

How a Medical Waste Assessment Can Save Your Medical Practice Money

Jul 18, 2016

As a medical practice that generates medical waste, it’s vitally important to receive a medical waste assessment from a reputable, professional, and experienced waste management company. Price is obviously a large factor when selecting such a company, but you also need to be careful to consider long-term as well as short-term costs. That is to say, what could it ultimately end up costing you if you select a disreputable, unprofessional, or inexperienced company?  

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Choosing Medical Waste Management: 9 Things Surgery Centers Must Know

Choosing Medical Waste Management: 9 Things Surgery Centers Must Know

Jun 27, 2016

Hiring medical waste management services at a surgery center is an essential part of ensuring those centers are in full legal compliance with all medical waste disposal laws. However, not all waste management companies are created equal. Before you commit to any one company, keep the following nine points in mind.  

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Pharmacy Waste Management: Why Work with Waste Management Companies?

Pharmacy Waste Management: Why Work with Waste Management Companies?

Jun 10, 2016

Pharmacy waste management is a complex and dynamic industry. If you run a pharmacy, it is vital you understand exactly how to deal with all the particular waste streams your business produces. If you’re uncertain about even one aspect of how to manage your medical waste, it’s important to at least seek out a qualified waste management company. Even if you don’t secure that company’s services, you can gain some valuable insight about what you need to be doing to ensure you’re in full legal compliance.  

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Mail Back Sharps Disposal: What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages?

Mail Back Sharps Disposal: What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages?

May 16, 2016

Trying to determine the best and most cost-effective way to handle your medical waste management can be confusing, and when you have medical sharps to contend with, the question becomes even more complicated. If you’re looking into how to ensure your medical facility complies with the proper disposal of sharps, you might very well be wondering what mail back sharps disposal entails. But is this right for you, your staff, and your medical facility? What makes these mail-back programs either advantageous or disadvantageous?  

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Full-Service Medical Waste Management Company: How It Saves You Money

Full-Service Medical Waste Management Company: How It Saves You Money

May 13, 2016

Dealing with your medical waste removal doesn’t need to be a pricy, difficult process—so long as you know how to avoid that. One of the easiest ways to save yourself hassle, time, and money is not just to work with any medical waste management company, but to find and work with the right company.  What makes a company the “right” company? Read on to find out!  

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Document Destruction: Why Your Atlanta Doctor’s Office Should Care

Document Destruction: Why Your Atlanta Doctor’s Office Should Care

Apr 22, 2016

Documentation destruction is a vital part of running any Atlanta doctor’s office. Properly following that protocol ensures you’re in full HIPAA compliance, and that’s important for a number of reasons. Not only does it protect your doctor’s office from fines or other punitive actions, but it also ensures your patients’ private information is never stolen, shared, or compromised.  

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Medical Sharps Bins 101: What a Georgia Medical Clinic Needs to Know

Medical Sharps Bins 101: What a Georgia Medical Clinic Needs to Know

Apr 18, 2016

One of the most important aspects of proper medical waste disposal is how you deal with your medical sharps. While there is a bit of ambiguity when it comes to regulated medical waste (for example, how much blood is enough blood to necessitate throwing an item in red bag waste), the rules surrounding proper sharps disposal are fairly black and white. If your Georgia medical clinic uses sharps, it’s vitally important that you and your entire staff know exactly what constitutes the steps and procedures of sharps disposal.

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Why Does Proper Biohazardous Waste Disposal Matter?

Why Does Proper Biohazardous Waste Disposal Matter?

Apr 1, 2016

The rules surrounding biohazardous waste disposal have changed dramatically over the past forty years. As people become increasingly aware of the dangers associated with improper disposal and as laws regarding that disposal become increasingly strict, more and more people are learning about the implications of not knowing or following these rules. There are, of course, legal implications, but there are also safety issues to consider. Therefore, if you run a clinic, doctor’s office, dentist’s office, veterinarian clinic, or a fully functioning hospital, it’s crucial that you both learn this information and put it into practice daily at your facility.  

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Red Bag Waste Disposal Tips for Urgent Care Centers in Georgia

Red Bag Waste Disposal Tips for Urgent Care Centers in Georgia

Mar 11, 2016

Proper red bag waste disposal is one of the most important waste management steps for Georgia’s urgent care centers. Because red bag waste contains items with blood or other potentially infectious materials, that waste stream can never legally go directly in the trash. Urgent care centers who ignore that put themselves at risk for fines, and they put whoever or whatever comes in contact with that waste at risk as well. With that in mind, make sure you’re implementing these red bag disposal tips in your urgent care center.  

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