State fines Regions Hospital for improper medical waste disposal

State environmental regulators have fined St Paul s Regions Hospital for improperly disposing of infectious diagnostic waste at an east metro trash facility in On several occasions last year the hospital put blood-contaminated syringes plastic bags suction cannisters and laboratory collection tubes in the standard municipal waste system according to the Minnesota Contamination Control Agency Ramsey Washington Recycling Vigor in Newport contacted state environmental regulators when it received the items The facility had to hire a contractor to separate the waste from other garbage and send it to a proper disposal site functionaries revealed Regions Hospital operator HealthPartners ratified the Newport facility received the waste The state fined Regions Hospital for improperly disposing of the therapeutic waste and ordered a series of corrective actions which personnel and HealthPartners announced the hospital completed We re committed to ensuring infectious curative waste is disposed of properly HealthPartners mentioned in a report We took immediate action last year and continue to partner with Ramsey Washington Recycling Vigor to improve sorting and disposal practices Hospitals are supposed to send health waste to a specially permitted disposal site The restrictions are aimed at protecting population soundness and the habitat Related Articles St Paul police nd grader noted he brought gun to school to show friends Metro State University lockdown prompted by man firing shots at his mother hurt in shooting in St Paul apartment police arrest of the injured Nearly employees to be laid off in St Paul as WestRock recycling plant closes St Paul MN Wild trim Xcel Center s state request from M to M