We are excited to share that our customer, LMH Health, has been featured alongside other national sustainability leaders thanks to its partnership with WasteMedX.
The Lawrence, Kansas-based health system was featured alongside such institutions as Stanford Medicine Children’s Health and Houston Methodist in Health Facilities Management’s article “Leading Health Care Organizations Zero In on Diverting Waste.”
Here’s the relevant excerpt about the exciting work LMH has embarked upon:
“In Lawrence, Kan., LMH Health has partnered with waste treatment and disposal company WasteMedX in Carmel, Ind., to provide safe, environmentally friendly and more affordable medical waste disposal…
“‘Before implementing WasteMedX, we had vendors at the main campus every day to transport our medical waste, traveling as far away as St. Louis,’ says Bill Churchwell, environmental services director at LMH Health. ‘Now we’re able to shred the waste in our own facility and use the ozone compound to sterilize the waste and make it completely safe for routine disposal. It is estimated that it could take us six to eight weeks to fill a dumpster before the city picks it up and takes it 5 miles to the landfill.’
“In addition, LMH Health estimates saving $78,000 over five years and $329,000 over the 10-year agreement…”
You can view the full article here, in which Bill also discusses how the new process that was made possible by WasteMedX has helped LMH reduce the estimated $500 in fuel fees they were paying in transportation costs for documents and waste.
We are honored to have played a part in LMH’s sustainability initiative, and we can’t wait to see what they do next! Thank you to Health Facilities Management for the excellent article and to Bill Churchwell for his careful analysis of LMH’s waste disposal processes!
About WasteMedX
WasteMedX helps hospitals heal the planet as well as patients. They do this through an eco-friendly waste treatment and disposal process that minimizes pollutants and reduces costs. This ozone treatment technology provides safe, efficient application of an ozone compound to all types of medical waste, reducing its volume up to 90%. The reactivity of the ozone compound destroys bacteria on contact and, with the push of a button, waste is weighed, shredded, sterilized and transferred to a disposal container.
Founded in Indiana in 2016 on the belief that hospital waste treatment and disposal could be more efficient, less costly and help hospitals achieve their sustainability goals, WasteMedX is revolutionizing waste disposal processes around the country.
