Pollution Prevention Information for Health Care Facilities
This page contains links to information for all types of health care facilities including hospitals, nursing homes, outpatient clinics, dentists, and private physician offices. Through these links, you can learn how to comply with environmental regulations, apply pollution prevention techniques to achieve better environmental performance at lower cost, and receive technical help if you need it.
DEC Resources - Pollution Prevention Unit
- Environmental Compliance and Pollution Prevention Guide for Health Care Facilities (311 KB, 56 pages PDF) - The guide summarizes environmental regulations, pollution prevention methods, and waste stream management for health care facilities.
- Environmental Self-Assessment for Health Care Facilities - A Quick and Easy Checklist of Pollution Prevention Measures for Health Care Facilities (141K, 50 pages PDF) - The self-assessments in this manual will help identify opportunities to incorporate pollution prevention measures in all aspects of administering medical services.
- A Pollution Prevention Guide to Reducing Mercury Emissions for Health Care Facility Incinerators (24 K, 8 pages PDF) - The recommendations in this guidance document will help minimize or eliminate mercury releases from health care facility incinerators.
- Pollution Prevention for the Health Care Industry Project Proposal (34 K, 8 pages PDF) - A description of the health care grant to conduct, over the course of two years, six one day technical seminars on pollution prevention activities in the health care industry. A collaborative effort between the NYSDEC, NYSDOH, and the Healthcare Assn. of NYS.
- Governors Pollution Prevention Award Winner - Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, NY Mercury Reduction Program - The University implemented a project at Strong Memorial Hospital to reduce mercury pollution. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the mercury reduction program, the hospital substituted equipment that uses mercury with electronic and mercury-free equipment and eliminated mercury compounds from certain activities within the clinical labs.
- Environmental Compliance & Pollution Prevention Guide for Small Quantity Generators (1422 K, 45 pages PDF) - This manual will assist small and medium-size businesses that are small quantity generators of hazardous waste understand environmental requirements and pollution prevention measures.
- Environmental Self-Audit for Small Businesses (126 K, 44 pages PDF)
Other DEC Programs
- Regulated Medical Waste - information from the Division of Solid & Hazardous Materials
- Air regulations
- Water regulations
- Bureau of Water Permits - SPDES permits and storm water permits
- Hazardous waste regulations
- DEC Mercury Home Page
- DEC Small Business Home Page
Any comments or questions?
Call the Division of Solid and Hazardous Material's small quantity generator toll free hotline at 1-800-462-6553, or
Contact the Pollution Prevention Unit at: 625 Broadway, Albany, NY 12233-1750;
518-402-9469 (phone); 518-402-9168 (fax)
