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E <br />HAZARDOUS MATERIALS, INFECTIOUS AND MEDICAL WASTES <br />February 25, 1982 <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: Mr. Richard Sandford <br />3. Contact: Richard Sandford - (209) 334-3411 ext. 560 <br />Caroline Stroud, RN - (209) 334-3411 ext. 423 <br />4. Infection Control Committee Chairperson: <br />Dr. A.P. Croft, M.1D. _ (209) 334-3411 ext. 585 <br />Alternate: Dr. Robert Lawrence, M.D. - (209) 334-3411 ext. 585 <br />5. Complete hospital acute care service. <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 Blackwelder <br />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 house4'..., <br />keeping, as soon as possible and placed into the enclosed <br />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 compactor. <br />