Michigan Medical WasteServices
We provide the following services in Michigan:
Hospitals
We handle many hospitals' medical waste in Michigan.
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Nursing Homes
We help keep nursing homes and retirement centers in Michigan safe and clean.
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Laboratories
We safely dispose of laboratory medical waste in Michigan.
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More Waste Services
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Through operation, a business creates some degree of refuse. For most, this is not an issue, as regular garbage collection will handle their needs. A dumpster or trash can is all that a business typically requires. Healthcare is not like other industries, however. The waste created includes normal refuse, but also has a fair amount of regulated waste. Items that cannot simply be thrown away with the regular garbage. This regulated waste includes materials related to the diagnosis, treatment, immunization, or research of disease. The waste from these actions can be hazardous to people, animals, or the environment. As such, specialized methods of disposal are required and enforced by laws on the federal, state, and even local levels. The handling and disposal of these biohazardous materials must be done to exacting standards and properly in order to mitigate risks to all involved. Because of this, locations like clinics, labs, hospitals, and nursing homes as well as any other healthcare provider must find an appropriate way to eliminate their medical and regulated waste. Michigan Medical Waste is a group of experts and specialists ready to assist with this task.
What constitutes regulated and biohazardous medical waste in Michigan? The difference between regular and regulated forms of waste often is the way in which it was created. For instance, medical procedures and testing methods create unique forms of refuse because of the nature of the practice. Medical practices can include various hazardous forms of treatment including radiation or toxic materials that would help one person, but harm others. Chemotherapy involves radiation, so any materials like IV bags and their tubing, gowns, syringes, or gloves would need to be treated carefully. The same is true of medication. Any drugs used in the diagnosis, treatment, curing, prevention, or management of a disease would do significant harm in a person not suffering from that disease. Any excess or expired medications must be destroyed thoroughly. One often preventative measure that can still be harmful is the treatment of pathological materials. This refers to any tissue samples, body parts, or fluids that could potentially carry infection. To be safe, any material like that is treated as if it were highly infectious and not only the material but the container it is in is treated as dangerous and disposed of properly.
Even paperwork is treated as regulated in some cases. Medical records are detailed and inclusive documents that record a person’s health, location, and history. This is highly sensitive information and can do a person a great deal of harm if not kept secret. However, many times the forms are updated or digitized, with the older paper versions needing disposed of. The information is still valuable. As such, it is called overclassified waste, and must be handled and disposed of carefully to protect the rights and privacy of patients.
The hazardous nature of this form of refuse is why laws are in place regarding regulated and medical waste in Michigan. Any company that offers to dispose of the material must be intimately familiar with the laws and regulations for proper disposal. Additionally, OSHA has very strict guidelines on the handling of the material until it can be properly disposed of. Such is to protect the safety and health of people in a workplace particularly in the presence of dangerous materials. Individuals must be aware of what to do and how to act around this or any other hazardous substances. Remaining up to code and familiar with the laws is among the highest priorities for Michigan Medical Waste. To that end, our associates are all fully licensed and trained to work with medical waste in any given environment. The size of our company and number of locations helps with medical waste disposal across much of New England by giving a us a wide amount of experience in a variety of situations. Such allows us to be able to handle many different forms of medical or regulated waste with facilities and experiences many smaller groups do not have. This network of peers gives a wealth of understanding of this subject, and different methods for handling multiple issues.