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Hazardous Waste: Purchasing Professionals’ Role

Speakers:  Pamela Bacon, Director,Enterprise Solutions, Broadlane
Kathy Pflaum, Pharmacy Inventory Control Coordinator, St. Francis Health Center
Moderator:  Steven Duke, CMRP, FAHRMM, Vice President, MAGNET Cooperative
Level:  Intermediate

This presentation helps describe the materials manager’s purchasing role regarding the identification and disposal of hazardous waste.  You will learn how you get hazardous resources from the entire hospital – laboratory, pharmacy and individual floors – into one location for disposal to meet Federal laws and comply with the Resources Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) from 1976. The Joint Commission, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and State Department of Health and Environment are all monitoring your compliance, so learn how to proactively avoid hefty fines and penalties.  Identifying responsible parties in your hospital to ensure proper handling and disposal of hazardous waste is the key to success. Establishing a hazardous waste disposal committee with various health facility stakeholders can aid this initiative. 

The presentation will detail the following:

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This program was recorded July 29, 2009.

Biographies

Pamela Bacon

Pamela is a director of Enterprise Solutions for the Client Care Department, serving the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System (SCLHS) and is based in the SCLHS system office in Lenexa, Kansas. 

Pamela is responsible for contract implementation, monitoring and account management support for both the Pharmacy and Medical value analysis teams.  She also provides a communication link between the SCLHS corporate office and the Broadlane centralized item master and procurement services located in Dallas.  

Previously, Pamela was the corporate director of materials management and pharmacy for Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System.  She managed an IDN committee structure for contracting and clinical initiatives in materials management, laboratory, radiology and surgery and pharmacy.

Pamela has more than 20 years of experience as a hospital pharmacist and, prior to joining SCLHS, was pharmacy director for Medical Center of Independence. 

She is a member of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists,  the Kansas Society of Health-system Pharmacists and Association of Healthcare Resource and Materials Management (AHRMM).

Pamela holds a Bachelor's of pharmacy and a Master’s of Business Administration from the University of Kansas. 

Kathy Pflaum

Kathy Pflaum is the pharmacy inventory control coordinator and the co-chair of the Resources Conservation Recovery Act of 1976 Committee at St. Francis Health Center. 

Prior to her career in the healthcare industry, Kathy was a merchant/buyer in the home improvement industry for more than 20 years with Home Depot, True Value and other retailers where she managed businesses in excess of $350 million.  Kathy also spent three years in marketing with The Calphalon Corporation. 

Kathy holds a Bachelor’s of Business Administration from Washburn University.