May 2013
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scarcely afford the costs of transport and fees
to the out-of-state disposal facility. He began
hoarding the waste in a warehouse, yet sent
manifests to the healthcare organizations
indicating the waste had been disposed.
Healthcare professionals are not relieved of
their waste liability until it is properly dis-
posed. State inspectors ultimately discov-
ered the violating warehouse full of medical
waste, and in the end, the healthcare orga-
nizations ultimately paid twice as much, if
not more, for disposal. As Mangum says,
given the degree of bacterial growth that had
occurred during the storage period, “Those
healthcare organizations paid a lot more on
the second bill than they did the first.”
Diversified Medical Services treats and
disposes all materials it collects within 24
hours, and that’s not just a matter of safety
standards and professional integrity, but be-
cause the team at Diversified genuinely cares
about its service to customers and service to
the state.
Mangum was raised in South Carolina.
Though his company relies on sophisticat-
ed machinery and has to maintain constant
awareness of complicated regulatory com-
pliance factors, Mangum is especially com-
pelled by values honed over his upbringing
in South Carolina. He says that means doing
