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and has multiple outpatient clinics including a 24-hour emergency department. Residency <br />programs are offered in surgery, internal medicine, and family practice. Approximately <br />10,000 inpatients are served each year, including the births of over 2,000 infants. SJGH is <br />committed to providing high-quality, comprehensive, and accessible health care to the <br />citizens of S.J. County in a responsible economically feasible fashion, and providing <br />specialized health care programs suited to the special needs of the community. <br />MEDICAL WASTE GENERATED <br />SJGH waste management program has identified the following types of "biohazardous <br />waste" generated through the provision of our services: <br />A. Laboratory waste <br />1. Human specimen cultures from medical and pathological <br />laboratories. <br />B. Waste containing any microbiological specimens <br />C. Human surgery specimens or tissues removed at surgery or autopsy. <br />D. Waste, which at the point of transport from the generator's site, at the <br />point of disposal, or thereafter, contains recognizable fluid blood, fluid <br />blood products, containers, or equipment containing blood that is fluid <br />known to be infected with diseases which are highly communicable to <br />humans. <br />E. Waste containing discarded materials contaminated with excretion, <br />exudate, or secretions from humans who are required to be isolated by the <br />infection control staff, the attending physician and surgeon, to protect <br />others from highly communicable diseases. <br />F. Waste which is hazardous only because it is comprised of human surgery <br />specimens or tissues have been fixed formaldehyde or other fixatives, or <br />only because the waste is contaminated through contact with, or having <br />previously contained, trace amounts of chemotherapeutic agents, including, <br />but not limited to, gloves, disposable gowns, towels, and intravenous <br />solution bags and attached tubing which are empty. <br />G. Infectious waste (general) <br />H. Sharps disposal <br />I. Anteoplastic drugs <br />J. Radiological waste <br />K. Gas monitoring <br />Note: SJGH generates 14.5 tons of waste weekly. Approximately 25% or 3.625 tons <br />is made up of biohazardous waste which has been neutralized by the steam <br />sterilization method. As SJGH utilizes steam sterilization method for medical <br />waste treatment, all biohazardous waste is neutralized prior to leaving the facility. <br />Waste that cannot be neutralized by steam sterilization is removed by a contracted <br />service which we will be addressed later in the plan. <br />