Hazardous Chemicals in Health Care

May 18, 2018

It is impossible to live in today ’s world without being exposed to hundreds of chemicals. Studies conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have documented this exposure for years, and the more chemicals the CDC tests for, the more they find in human bodies. And the more we study these chemicals, the more direct link we find to illness and disease. Health care professionals, particularly nurses, are at increased risk for chemical and pharmaceutical exposure and so are healthcare patients. Reducing exposures is an important step as the healthcare sector fulfills its oath to “first do no harm.”

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Hamilton Health Care System, located in Dalton, Georgia, is the premier health care delivery system in northwest Georgia. Hamilton’s mission is to deliver quality services in a caring atmosphere for patients and their families. The non-profit system owns and operates Hamilton Medical Center (a 282-bed regional referral hospital), independent and assisted living facilities, four skilled nursing facilities, two low-income senior housing units, and a philanthropic foundation. Hamilton also contracts with Whitfield County to provide emergency medical services.

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