HSHS Good Shepherd Hospital recently announced a registered ‘Drug Take Back’ site with the Drug Enforcement Agency or ‘DEA.’ This is an entirely new service that offers residents a free and secure way to properly dispose of their unused or expired prescription and non-prescription medicines.
The ‘Drug Take Back’ box is situated in the front Emergency Room entrance of Good Shepherd Hospital, located at 201 S. Pine St. in Shelbyville. Community members can access the brightly colored lime green box at any time as the ER Department is open to the public at all times. It is recommended that before dropping off any prescription medicine, you make sure to remove all personal information displayed on the pill bottle and medicine package labels.
HSHS Good Shepherd Hospital, Shelbyville is part of Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS), a Catholic health care ministry founded in 1875. Based in Springfield, Illinois, HSHS provides over 11,000 colleagues with jobs, who provide care for 13 acute-care, children's, and critical-access hospitals, as well as home health and hospice programs across Central and Southern Illinois and Eastern Wisconsin. HSHS is partnered with more than 1,000 primary and specialty physicians and advanced practitioners through its affiliates, including HSHS Medical Group, Prairie Cardiovascular, and Prevea Health.
For more information about HSHS Good Shepherd Hospital and their new ‘Drug Take Back’ site, visit them at hshsgoodshepherd.org.
