Pharmaceutical Solutions for Hospitals
Your hospital pharmacy stocks thousands of pharmaceutical products, and a percentage of them are subject to federal and state regulation as hazardous wastes.
Failure to properly identify, manage, and dispose of these wastes can endanger your community, harm your reputation and result in substantial penalties for your facility.
Managing pharmaceutical waste in a hospital setting is a complex but necessary task. That’s why it is imperative to find efficiencies that balance business goals with the highest standards of safety and compliance. Rely on Waste Management, the nation’s leading provider of environmental services, to guide you through this process.
Through Waste Management PharmEcology® Services, we are working to help hospitals become more efficient, more environmentally responsible and more profitable. We offer six services designed to do just that.
Do you know the hazardous waste classification of every pharmaceutical product you carry? With our proprietary Inventory Analysis, you can have a complete analysis of your entire pharmaceutical inventory at your fingertips within days.
Do you know how to properly manage the waste when a pharmaceutical product is discarded? Use our patented Waste Wizard to search our vast online database of more than 170,000 pharmaceutical products. Search by NDC number, product name, generic name or ingredient.
PharmE® On-Site Risk Assessment and Recommendations
How can you improve your current pharmaceutical waste management practices to comply with federal and state environmental regulations? Take advantage of our On-Site Risk Assessment. We’ll carefully evaluate your facility and create a cost-effective action plan that guides you toward compliance.
PharmE® Policies and Procedures
Our easy-to-use templates are tailored to help you adopt the industry’s best practices for managing pharmaceutical waste. Each template can be easily customized and integrated into your hazardous materials and waste management plan, helping you develop and implement improvements quickly.
Let Waste Management’s team of Sustainable Pharmacy™ experts help you find the shortest route to compliance. Our PharmE® Certification provides external validation of your internal pharmaceutical waste processes and may further your credibility with state and federal regulators and third-party accreditation teams.
For environmentally responsible collection, transport, treatment and disposal of both hazardous and non-hazardous pharmaceutical waste, rely on Waste Management, the nation’s largest environmental services provider. We operate 16 waste-to-energy facilities, as well an additional facility specifically designed to handle regulated medical and pharmaceutical waste.
Services are provided by WM Healthcare Solutions, Inc., a Waste Management company