Medical Miscellanea, Part II

The hospital donates expired supplies to third world countries. Someone picks them up from our Central Service department every Wednesday.

Central Services will take back unwanted supplies. If they haven't expired, they can be redistributed internally.

Nothing should be stored under sinks.

or closer than 18" to the ceiling

or on the floor

Some people don't get that this flurry of activity in preparation for the Joint Commision inspection is wrong. These are standards we should always adhere to. It isn't some obscure final exam to be crammed for and then forgotten about.

Some people do get it.

The hospital belongs to a service that provides MSDS information 24 hours per day, 7 days a week via fax. That information is also easily available via a google search. While you do have to be careful of what you find randomly on the internet, chemical companies have started providing that information online. That's about as good of a source as you're going to get.