Iowa Medical Waste Disposal Services
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
Iowa Medical Waste Management | Medical & Biohazardous Waste Disposal
While Iowa’s hog population outnumbers its human counterparts, there’s more to the “Corn State” than sweeping farmland, Winnebagos, golf courses, Pufferbillys and Eskimo Pies. Tucked between the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, there are plenty of things that make Iowa the best thing since sliced bread! It is said this famous phrase was coined here thanks to the frustrations of one Otto Frederick Rohwedder. Exacerbated from cramming hand-sliced pieces of bread into his toaster, he invented the first automatic bread slicer.
The landlocked state is popular for some of its unique festivities such as the National Hobo Convention in Britt. In the state’s capital Des Moines, the annual World Food Prize Award is handed out, while Decorah hosts the annual Nordic Fest. Changing its location yearly, more than 8,500 avid cyclists are selected via random lottery to participate in the RAGBRAI, the oldest and largest bike-touring event of its kind. Iowans have a penchant for BIG things; Iowa City is home to the world’s largest wooden nickel, and Strawberry Point houses the world’s biggest strawberry. The world’s longest Bullhead Fish statue watches over Crystal Lake, which is also popular for catching the real thing, and is only a few miles away from Iowa’s oldest state park – Backbone.
The “Hawkeye State” has a number of famous connections; Winterset was the birthplace of John Wayne aka The Duke, while Cedar Rapids is Ashton Kutcher’s hometown. Riverside has cult status as the future birthplace of James Tiberius Kirk and hosts the annual “Trekfest.” While Dubuque provided the backdrop to Oscar favorite “Felid of Dreams” and Madison County was where most of “The Bridges of Madison County” was filmed. Clear Lake is where “the music died,” in 1959, when the plane of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper’s crashed into a field. In 1982 in Des Moines a 17-year-old boy threw a bat on stage at a concert, which would spark the infamous Ozzy Osborne incident. When Ozzy realized it was real, he was raced to hospital for a rabies shot after the show.
Daniels has been established in Iowa since 2003 and has grown to become one of the most well respected service partners in the healthcare industry. Our commitment to honest and transparent pricing, range of world-leading containment solutions, and the delivery of clinical, sustainable and safety outcomes across our solution offering to acute 
and non-acute healthcare facilities alike, sets Daniels apart.
Daniels’ comprehensive transport and processing network enables us to deliver competitive pricing with local service. As no two healthcare settings are the same, the Daniels approach is built on product and service customization – whether for a surgery or oncology center or a multi-site hospital, we have something for you. Daniels Health innovative solutions for medical waste include:
- Biohazardous Sharps Disposal
- Regulated medical waste (red bag waste) and pathological waste
- Trace Chemotherapy
- Expired RX Pharmaceuticals and the use of RX Destroyer
- RCRA Hazardous and the disposal of Controlled Substances
- Surgical Device Recovery
- OSHA Compliance Training
All of these solutions are designed to integrate seamlessly with your practice, optimizing efficiencies, reducing waste volumes and minimizing disruption to patient care. Learn more about our industry-leading product range here.
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Iowa’s Medical Waste Disposal Guidelines
Where there are hospitals there is biohazardous waste. The “Solid Waste Program” sets Iowa’s regulations, which operate in addition to OSHA’s. Any facility in Iowa generating any type of medical waste is required to apply for an SWA (Special Waste Authorization) permit. The SWA includes very specific details such as:
- Volume and weight of waste
- A chemical analysis of the waste
- MSDS – a Material Safety Data Sheet
- TCLP (Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure) results – if applicable
In addition to these requirements, all sharps must be blunted, granulated, shredded, incinerated or mechanically destroyed. We know there are so many factors influencing compliant medical waste disposal in Iowa, so we’ve made it a little easier to digest. To ensure your healthcare facility is compliant, click below:
Daniels Health understands the needs of healthcare facilities in Iowa. Contact us and see how we can help your facility better manage your medical and biohazardous waste disposal in Iowa.
Healthcare Waste Costs managed responsibly
At Daniels we are committed to restoring the balance of pricing and clinical outcomes in healthcare waste management services.
In 1986 Daniels was founded on a single imperative – Making Healthcare Safer. Through our expansion into six countries, accolades in medical journals around the world for our container safety innovation, and delivery of hundreds of thousands of medical waste disposal services to acute and non-acute facilities in the United States, Daniels stands on its own in keeping “the main thing, the main thing”. Our success is earned through delivering the safest healthcare waste solutions and services possible so that work aligns with the mission of healthcare – patient care.
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? Across all 50 states, Daniels provides the safest, most secure, and most clinically advanced sharps, pharmaceutical and medical waste containers for healthcare facilities, combatting issues commonly associated with medical waste disposal including medications theft, leaking, needlestick injuries and cross contamination.
Dramatically reduced infection transfer risk
Using a foot-pedal opening mechanism and bagless system means hand contact with the container is no longer required.
This no-touch alternative results in a dramatic reduction in the infection transfer risk that currently exists using standard medical waste containers. The Medismart reusable system ensures that once full, each container is removed from your premises, emptied, and then subjected to a rigorous 6-stage robotic wash and sanitization process that eliminates challenge organisms and proves a 106 Log reduction in bacterial load.
Be Sustainable, Choose Reusable
99.6% reduction in the amount of plastic landfilled per annum
Upon converting from reusable containers to the Sharpsmart reusable system, one hospital achieved a 28% waste reduction and 84% reduction in carbon emissions across their 103 facilities, achieving a total waste reduction of 3.9 tons of plastic and cardboard waste per 100 beds per annum. Furthermore, a 51% reduction in container exchange labor was achieved by the install of larger Sharpsmart containers that were more suitable to volume requirements.
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
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