Long-Term Care and Institutional Pharmacy Solutions
Long-Term Care Pharmacies
The waste challenges long-term-care pharmacies address are varied and often challenging. Everything from discontinued and returned medications, to broken or damaged products, to HIPAA issues and more can affect your pharmacy’s compliance status.
At Waste Management’s PharmEcology® Services, we are committed to helping long-term-care pharmacies address the federal and state compliance regulations that apply to pharmaceutical waste.
Our PharmE® Inventory Analysis and patented PharmE® Waste Wizard* were developed to help you identify hazardous pharmaceutical waste and quickly find out how to properly segregate and dispose of it. Both tools are simple to use, and are a strong foundation for your pharmaceutical compliance program. Click on “Transport and Treatment” to find out about our specific disposal sites and methodologies.
*U.S. Patent 7,366,640 B2
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.
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.
Institutional Pharmacies
The need to protect the environment is one of the most pressing issues of our time. There is growing concern about the method pharmacies – including institutional pharmacies – are using to dispose of pharmaceutical waste, along with increased scrutiny of pharmacies from government regulators at the federal and state levels.
PharmEcology® Services can help you address the complexities of segregating hazardous and non-hazardous pharmaceutical waste and disposing of these items properly and in full compliance with the regulations. The PharmE® Inventory Analysis and PharmE® Waste Wizard* are designed to be simple to use and comprehensive in scope,..
*U.S. Patent 7,366,640 B2
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.
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.