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Profile Of The Healthcare Industry
Generally describe the healthcare industry on a national basis. In many instances, facilities within specific geographic regions or states may have unique characteristics that are not fully captured in these profiles. The Office of Compliance encourages state, tribal, and local environmental agencies and other groups to supplement or repackage the information included in this Notebook to include more specific industrial and regulatory information that may be available.
Provides background information on the size, geographic distribution, employment, and economic condition of the healthcare industry. Facilities described within the document are also described in terms of their North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes. The NAICS, which was developed jointly by the United States, Canada, and Mexico to provide new comparability in statistics about business activity across North America, has replaced the U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system, under which Health Services is designated 80. Facilities in the healthcare industry are identified under NAICS code 62.
The healthcare and social assistance industry (NAICS code 62) comprises many subsectors including ambulatory healthcare services, hospitals, nursing and residential care facilities, and social assistance. This Notebook focuses primarily on the activities performed at hospitals. However, many of these activities can be performed by others in the healthcare industry, and as such, this notebook applies to those providers as well.
he healthcare industry provides a variety of services to support the healthcare needs of a community or individuals. Many of the activities in healthcare result in waste outputs and air or water pollution. In order to understand which activities generate polluting waste outputs, it is necessary to look at various functions within healthcare, and understand the products and supplies used and the resulting wastes. Much of the waste in healthcare is solid waste consisting of paper, cardboard, glass, plastic, and metals. A subcomponent of healthcare waste is biohazardous, or infectious waste. Another component is Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) hazardous waste.
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