clean," says Henry Rey Jr., RN, the nurse manager at Schulze Surgery
Center in Savannah, Ga. "Our clean and sterile rooms utilize distilled
water, so we have several of the blue bins there for employees to
place the plastic jugs in. The same blue bins are at the front desk area
for paper products."
Automation also
works to help reduce
waste. For example,
one of the primary
draws of closed,
direct-to-drain fluid
waste management—
be it a portable suc-
tion unit, stationary
room suction or a no-
contact, canister-emp-
tying system — is that
it keeps the weight of
solidified fluid out of
red bags. This elimi-
nates a large amount
of high-cost biohazard
waste, notes Kathleen
Allman, RN, MSA-
HCM, CASC, the CEO
of Millennium
Surgery Center in
Bakersfield, Calif.
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keep your facility's
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