Congratulations to the Fall 2018 scholarship contest winners! Each semester Sharps Compliance provides an essay topic and selects three winners. $1500, $1000, and $750 scholarships are awarded to three students currently enrolled in or accepted to an accredited university. Students must be studying healthcare.
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ComplianceTrac: Online OSHA Training and Compliance Tools That Are Ready When You Are
No office wants its employees to suffer accidents on the job. Workplace injuries cost money and hurt employee morale. So, prevention is key. Employees need to understand workplace safety rules and have access to comprehensive OSHA training materials. In most healthcare facilities, however, it can be hard to fit training into busy schedules. ComplianceTrac can help.
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Don’t Forget: Scholarship Essay Deadline June 11
The deadline for Sharps Compliance’s biannual scholarship essay contest is Monday, June 11, 2018. Students currently enrolled in an accredited college or university, who are studying a healthcare-related major, are eligible to enter. A first, second, and third prize of $750, $1000, and $1500 will be awarded, respectively.
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Retail Pharmacies Implementing Safe Sharps Disposal Programs As Vaccination Rates Rise
In the United States, approximately 50,000 adults die each year from vaccine-preventable diseases. The immunization shortfall has multiple causes, but health experts agree that leveraging “non-traditional sites of vaccination delivery” can help overcome barriers to care. Retail pharmacies play an important role in this effort. Between 2007 and 2013, the number of vaccinations dispensed by community pharmacies rose from 3.2 million to 20.9 million.
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Brookdale Senior Living & Sharps Compliance: 9 Questions for a Long-Standing Sharps Customer
Each day, Brookdale Senior Living serves over 100,000 seniors in more than 1,000 communities in 46 states. Brookdale is the only provider operating at this scale across all segments of the senior living continuum. Levels of care offered include independent living, assisted living, Alzheimer’s and dementia care, rehabilitation and skilled nursing, continuing care retirement communities, and a variety of ancillary services including home health and hospice care.
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