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Professional mold remediation vital after flooding: beware the fly-by-night contractor.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 24-APR-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Professional mold remediation vital after flooding: beware the fly-by-night contractor.(Focus)

Article Excerpt
Dealing with mold contamination after Hurricane Katrina is particularly important for commercial buildings such as hospitals and other healthcare facilities. Not only is healthy air quality especially important in hospitals, but healthcare facilities that provide vital care need to reopen quickly to meet the needs of the community.

The Hancock Medical Center in Bay St. Louis had several feet of water on the first floor with Katrina. A month afterward, the emergency room was open. And operating rooms were taking patients for minor surgery by the middle of December.

"The hospital is recovering quite well in contrast with some of the other stories we are reading about with difficulties getting back up and going," said Joe Drapala, director of industrial hygiene and indoor air quality services, HAZCLEAN Environmental Consultants Inc., Jackson, which started working with the hospital September 3, 2005, to provide mold remediation services. Guidelines from the Center for Disease Control and the Mississippi Department...

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