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Long-term and home care

Medical waste disposal for nursing homes and assisted living

A nursing home is a residence and a clinical facility at the same time. Insulin is given in bedrooms, dressings are changed on a corridor round, and the waste has to be collected without turning a home into a hospital.

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Tell us about your facility and the Mobile office will call you back.

Or call (251) 300-6143.

  • No long-term contracts

    You stay because the pickups happen, not because a contract says so.

  • No hidden fees

    Mail-back has no minimum purchase and no fuel surcharge either.

  • Local pickup

    South Alabama, South Mississippi and the Florida Panhandle.

  • Mail-back anywhere

    Prepaid return boxes to all 50 states, for offices that make very little.

Technician replacing a wall-mounted sharps container on a nursing home corridor

What a facility generates

Steady, and spread across the building

Insulin is the backbone of the stream. A hundred-bed facility with a high diabetic population fills sharps containers on a rhythm you can set a calendar by, and it happens on every wing at once rather than in one treatment room.

Wound care adds weight: pressure injury dressings, saturated gauze and contaminated PPE. Container placement matters more than container size here, because a nurse should not be walking a used needle past a resident's door.

  • Insulin and injection sharps The largest single stream in most facilities, generated on every wing.
  • Wound care waste Pressure injury and ulcer dressings, saturated gauze and contaminated PPE.
  • Incontinence and isolation waste Material from residents on contact precautions, where it meets the regulated definition.
  • Medication waste Expired and unused non-controlled drugs from the medication room.

What applies to you

The rules behind the containers

Long-term care answers to state survey and to OSHA, and waste handling shows up in both.

  • Bloodborne pathogens

    OSHA 29 CFR 1910.1030 covers every employee with reasonably anticipated exposure, including nursing assistants.

  • Containers on the round

    Point-of-use containers on the medication cart and on each wing, so used sharps never travel.

  • Controlled drugs are separate

    Destruction of DEA-scheduled medication runs under 21 CFR 1317 through a registered route. It is not part of this service.

  • Survey-ready records

    A manifest and proof of destruction per pickup, filed with your infection control documentation.

A summary for orientation, not legal advice. Check the current rule with the agency, or call the office in Mobile, AL.

Two ways to dispose

Pickup or mail-back

It comes down to how much you make. Steady volume suits a truck on a schedule. An office that fills a few containers a month can skip the truck and mail them back.

Scheduled pickup

For clinics, practices and facilities with steady volume

  • Containers and bags supplied for each waste stream
  • Routine or flexible pickups, adjusted when your volume changes
  • Collected by trained, experienced personnel
  • Waste manifest and proof of legal destruction every time
  • Local across South Alabama, South Mississippi and the Florida Panhandle, from our Mobile, AL office
Quote a pickup schedule

Mail-back

For small quantity generators, 0 to 50 lbs a month

  • Systems from 1 quart to 28 gallons
  • Prepaid return box and a pre-filled manifest
  • Email tracking from pickup to destruction
  • Electronic certificate of disposal
  • No contracts, no minimums, no fuel surcharges
See mail-back systems Or go straight to the shop

Your account

Set up wing by wing

Bed count gets you close. Diabetic population and wound care load get you the rest of the way.

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  • Containers where care happens

    On carts and wings rather than one central point that invites carrying.

  • A routine interval

    Steady volume makes a fixed schedule work, adjusted if your census or acuity shifts.

  • Medication waste covered

    Non-controlled expired drugs go on the same account.

  • Portal training for the team

    Bloodborne Pathogens, Hazcom and HIPAA with instant certification, on any device.

Questions

Nursing Homes & Assisted Living, answered

Something we did not cover? The office that serves you can answer it.

Mobile, AL(251) 300-6143

How many sharps containers does a facility need?

Enough that a used needle never leaves the room or the cart it was used at. That usually means containers on medication carts plus fixed points on each wing.

Do you take controlled substances from the med room?

No. Destruction of DEA-scheduled medication runs through a registered reverse distribution route under 21 CFR 1317. We collect non-controlled pharmaceutical waste.

Can you handle isolation waste?

Regulated medical waste from residents on precautions is collected in the containers we supply. Ordinary incontinence waste that does not meet the regulated definition is general waste.

What documentation do we keep for survey?

A waste manifest for every pickup and proof of legal waste destruction.

Is there a long-term contract?

No. No long-term contracts and no hidden fees.

Other facilities

We collect from these too

All 40 facility types we serve

Services

How the waste actually leaves

Local pickup runs from our Mobile, AL office, and mail-back ships to all 50 states. Compare all services.

A quote for nursing Homes & Assisted Living

Tell us what you generate and where you are. The Mobile office comes back with a quote, and there is no contract to sign.

Request a quote Mobile, AL(251) 300-6143