While working in senior and assisted living communities, your primary concerns revolve around the care and experiences of your patients. Managing the medical waste and maintenance of your community accumulates — whether it be red bag waste, sharps disposal, HVAC repairs, or plumbing emergency — can prevent you from prioritizing them. It’s not just the time it takes to manage facility and waste management, but the fact waste disposal is highly regulated with pricey financial liabilities for any mismanagement. Not to mention sourcing the proper service providers and more which can make senior living facility management trickier than necessary. 

 

Assisted, independent and senior living facilities, need to dispose of medical waste in a safe way that fully complies with all federal, state, and local regulations. Medical waste of all types must be safely disposed of and regulations are complex and ever-changing. In addition, there are financial penalties for healthcare professionals’ offices for improper disposal of waste, all of this can make managing the safe, legal disposal feel overwhelming. Let SLM Facility Solutions take the burden of healthcare facility management off your shoulders.

 

How Outsourcing Helps You

Effective facility management in the senior and assisted living sector not only benefits your patients but also protects staff and reduces costs while actively contributing to a clean and healthy image. Keeping on top of maintenance tasks, sourcing service providers, and overseeing the projects all while training staff, ensuring patients are happy and comfortable, and more can cause unnecessary headaches and stress! By outsourcing your senior living facility management needs, you get back your time to focus on what’s important. Your partner in facility management will source, oversee, vet, schedule, and much more on your behalf.

Types of Assisted and Senior Living Facility Management Services We Handle

Here, at SLM Facility Solutions Nationwide, we offer numerous assisted and senior facility management services to simplify your building and waste management responsibilities and boost your operating efficiency. Why? Because we are passionate about providing assisted and senior facilities with industry-leading facility management. We work with you to ensure you are compliant with amalgam and mercury disposal and will meet the challenges of OSHA, HIPAA, and coding compliance (to avoid fines and lawsuits and to save money.

Your communities have unique requirements and needs. You don’t need a one size fits all solution which is why we provide tailored facility management solutions. We manage a range of services from on-demand such as Handyman, Plumbing, Electrical, Lighting, Signage, Parking Lot Repairs & Maintenance, HVAC repairs. Plus recurring services such as Waste and Recycling, Grease Interceptor, and Backflow services to match the requirements and needs of each of your communities.

 

Types of Medical Waste We Handle

  • Sharps
  • Needles
  • IV Catheters
  • Wipes
  • Gloves
  • Syringes without Needles
  • Syringes with Needles or Sharp Objects
  • Lancets
  • EpiPens
  • Bandages or Dressings with Dry Blood or Fluid
  • Infusion Sets
  • Miscellaneous Medical or Hazardous Waste

 

You take care of your patients and community all day. Let SLM Facility Solutions take care of your assisted and senior living facility management needs. Complete our free facilities assessment to discover how SLM Facility Solutions Nationwide can help you.