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HAZARDOUS '1ATERIALS, INFECTIOUS AND MEDICAL 'WASTES <br />larch 31, 1980 <br />A. GENERAL INFORMATION <br />1. Lodi Memorial Hospital <br />975 S. Fairmont Ave.. (P.O. Box 110), Lodi, Calif. 95240 <br />2. Owner: Lodi Memorial Hospital Association, Inc. <br />Administrator: .1r. Richard Sandford <br />3. Contact: Richard Sandford - (209) 334-3411 ext. 560 <br />Enes M. Willems, R.N. - (209) 334=3411 ext. 547 <br />4. Infection Control Committee Chairperson: <br />Dr. A.P. Croft, M.D. - (209) 334-3411 ext. 585 <br />Alternate: Dr. Robert Lawrence, M.D. - 334-3411 ext. 585 <br />5. Complete hospital actue care service. <br />B. WASTES DESCRIPTION, HANDLING AND DISPOSAL <br />1. Isolation room produced wastes: <br />a. All wastes are placed in double plastic bags at site of generation. <br />Sharps are placed in closed container before double bagged. <br />b. Double bags are labeled, "Infectious Waste" and placed immediately <br />in 'soiled Utility Room'. <br />c. These bags are collected, as soon as possible, by housekeeping; <br />placed on carts and placed immediately into an enclosed <br />Blackwelder Compactor located outside the back of the building. <br />2. Laboratory: <br />a. Chemicals used in tests are contained within the equipment and <br />flushed by constant water flowing into the regular sewer system. <br />b. Infectious Laboratory waste is placed in approved plastic <br />"Decontamination" bags and autoclaved in the Laboratory. <br />c. These bags are collected, as soon as possible, by housekeeping <br />and placed into the enclosed Blackwelder Compactor. <br />d. Radioactive waste from Clinical Lab. (1125): <br />1. Liquid waste is flushed into sewer with copious amounts of <br />water. <br />2. Solid waste is placed in plastic bags and collected by house_ <br />keeping, as soon as possible and Placed into the enclosed <br />Blackwelder Compactor. <br />3. Radiology: <br />a. Radioactive waste is placed in plastic bags and kept in a.lead <br />container marked "Radioactive Material", in the Radiology Dept., <br />until no longer radioactive. At that time Housekeeping is called <br />to pick up the waste, as soon as possible, and place immediately <br />into the enclosed Blackwelder Compactor. <br />