California Medical Waste Disposal
Daniels Health is the leading expert in compliance, clinical containment and environmentally responsible waste management services. Transparent pricing, customized scheduling, immediate cost reduction.
The Daniels Difference
- We provide medical waste containers designed by clinicians for clinicians!
- All containers sanitized through a world-leading robotic washing / decontamination process.
- It is our drivers and our trucks that will service your facility, no third party hauler risk
- We areup front with our costs and transparent with our contracts
- Scheduling that supports your practice – you pay only for what you need
- Eliminate disposal-related needlestick injuries with our advanced sharps safety systems
- Eliminate the purchase, disposal costs and landfill of one-time-use disposable containers
Solutions
- Regulated Medical Waste Services
- Biohazardous Sharps Services
- Pharmaceutical Waste Services
- Chemotherapy and Hazardous Waste Services
- Onsite and online compliance and education
California Medical Waste Management | Medical and Biohazardous Waste Disposal
Our 35+ years of experience, clinical background, and local presence make us the right choice for your biomedical and regulated medical waste management in California.
Daniels Health is a proud partner to many leading healthcare facilities in California such as Stanford Healthcare and Loma Linda University Medical Center. We service facilities of all sizes, from small general practices, dental offices, long term care facilities, hospitals and everything in between, providing cradle to grave waste collection and biohazard disposal services in the state of California. Our partners choose us because they know we are the trusted experts in all waste streams, including:
- Sharps & RMW Disposal
- Pharmacueticals & Controlled Substances Disposal
- Chemotherapy Disposal (Trace and Bulk)
- Hazardous/RCRA Disposal
- Pathological Disposal
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Ah, California! It is the land of tall palm trees, pink cadillacs, the golden stars of hollywood boulevard and all year round summer dreaming. California has more than 100 songs sung about it, captivating the young aspiring to Hollywood stardom and the young at heart reliving their childhood in Cinderella’s palace at Disney land… it is quite simply the epicentre of perpetual happiness!
With 39.5 million residents, California is the most populated state in the country. And hey, Mickey Mouse lives there so it’s easy to see the appeal! In California, everything is simply iconic… in San Francisco, The Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz; in San Diego, white beaches, seal watching and sunset tacos in La Jolla; and in Los Angeles, the city of Angels, the playground that is Disneyland, Rodeo Drive, Universal Studies and Hollywood. In addition to its playful sun-kissed lifestyle, California also boasts some incredible natural wonders – Yosemite, Kings Canyon and Joshua Tree national park just to name a few.
We’re proud to be be serving healthcare in such a beautiful part of the world! Outside of our major cities, our team are proud to service some of the “less known” landmark locations in California including Anaheim, Bakersfield, Long Beach, San Jose, Oakland and Fresno.
Our local Californian facility manages the collection and disposal of all biomedical waste streams across California’s major cities including Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and neighborhoods in between. As a team we pride ourselves on providing tangible results for our clients. This year alone, we:
- Prevented approximately 4250 needlestick injury incidents
- Diverted over 2000 tons of plastic from landfills
- Replaced over 30,000 cardboard boxes with our world-leading reusable medical waste disposal systems!
- Saved healthcare facilities approximately US$25 million in waste management costs
- Served over 8000+ customers, at more than 52,000 locations, with our drivers conducting over 250,000 services!
How is hospital medical waste regulated in California?
The act further dictates that:
- If a small quantity generator generates more than 20 lbs. of biohazardous waste in a month, this waste (including sharps) must be stored above 32 degrees Fahrenheit at any onsite location for more than 7 days (unless written approval is provided by the department)
- If a small quantity generator generates less than 20 lbs. of biohazardous waste per month, it cannot be stored onsite above 32 degrees Fahrenheit for more than 30 days
In addition to these stringent regulations, generators are required to maintain a comprehensive tracking document for all waste that has been removed, treated, transported or disposed of, for a period of 3 years.
Guide to California Medical Waste Regulations
We offer security focused service solutions for pharmaceutical waste management.
Our pharmaceutical waste containers are innovative and have been designed with safety in-mind. Our pharmaceutical sharps containers come with built-in security features to prevent interference and unauthorized access, and to ensure the safety of your healthcare facilities’ staff and patients. We’ve made a commitment to be different from our competition.
We champion innovation, customer service and affordability for our clients. When you choose Daniels for medical waste managament, you choose a company that:
- Thinks of its clients as partners
- Consistently looks to reduce medical waste volumes, compliance risk and costs
- Offers no-nonsense contracts that are easy to decipher
- Takes full responsibility for your waste, from cradle to grave
- Provides innovative containment solutions, that are geared towards mitigating risk and ensuring safety using the safest sharps container in the world
Daniels Health understands the needs of healthcare facilities in California. Contact us and see how we can help your facility better manage your medical and biohazardous waste disposal.
Safety-Designed Medical Waste Systems
When a cardboard box for medical waste just won’t cut it in a beautiful patient environment!
When we sought out to change the way medical waste was managed in the United States, we started with ‘would we place a cardboard box full of waste in our home environment’. The answer was no, so why would this be acceptable for a patient room? In California, Daniels provides the safest, most secure, and most clinically advanced sharps, pharmaceuticaland medical waste containersfor facilities across the state including the major city centers of San Diego, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Sharpsmart. World Leading Sharps Safety Technology
Peer reviewed in four independent studies, clinically proven to reduce needlestick Injuries by up to 87%, and relied on by healthcare facilities around the world, the Sharpsmart system is driven by a single objective – To Save Lives. Designed with 13 safety features, manufactured with needle-impenetrable plastic, a gravity balanced safety tray for risk-free sharps disposal, and a built-in overfill protection mechanism, the Daniels Sharpsmart is the most advanced sharps container system in the world.
Effective Waste Optimization
Moving from Volume to Value, the safest, most sustainable and financially beneficial method of Healthcare waste minimization is to segregate at source.
Effective point of generation segregation ensures the lowest cost impact, improved sustainability, compliance and labor efficiency assurance.Daniels Health waste optimization will reduce patient interruptions to a minimum. Choosing reusable products to reduce environmental impact, placing segregation at the forefront of our training, and offering revolutionary waste processing and washing methods that are proven to achieve the highest levels of microbiological efficacy, Daniels Health has taken the greening of healthcare waste to the next level.
Medismart, the future of medical waste management
Infection minimizing innovation for the collection of Regulated Medical Waste
The Daniels Medismart is the first regulated medical waste system to truly modernize RMW waste management. Reducing time and labor, preventing infection transfer, eliminating multi-handling of waste, preventing sharps injuries, and dramatically improving waste segregation, the Medismart ushers in a new era of safe point-of-use and cost-effective medical waste disposal.
How We Serve You
Across 6 countries, Daniels has become a brand name synonymous with healthcare innovation and service
In 39 years Daniels have become experts in delivering solutions for the niche requirements of healthcare. Today over 125,000 services are fulfilled annually across the United States by Daniels owned and operated fleet. From small practices to large medical facilities, our scalable business model ensures that every customer receives:
- Timely scheduled services with clear transparent communication
- Minimum disruption to patient care
- Safety and Security underpinning all biohazardous waste handling practices
- A positive and friendly customer experience
- Cost-effective customized solutions that guarantee efficiencies and maximize savings
"They are a pleasure to deal with"
We chose Daniels to manage our sharps, medical and pharmaceutical waste because of their safer sharps containers and competitive pricing. I’m glad we did because they are a pleasure to deal with – from the punctual driver through to their helpful customer service.
Organizations We Partner With
We are proud to have been chosen by over 8,200 US facilities as vendor of choice for healthcare waste services, including our very first customer that we signed 22 years ago! In California here are some of the brands we protect
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