8/26/2004 BOARD OF HEALTH Minutes

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TOWN of I ASHPEE BOARD of HEALTH August 26', 2004 Mr. Santos opened the meeting at 7:08 PNM. THE TAPE IS NOT PART of THE MEETING: IT iS FOR THE PURPOSE of TRANSCRIPTION oNLY4 Members Present: L. Glenn Santos, Steven R. Sall, Glen E. Harrington and Veronica A. Warden APPOINTMENT:T: Deborah Billings - Body Art Licenses . Deborah Billings RN, CPN, MPS was present. She is a nurse with 20 years experience. She was seeking ar permit for body art in the guise of permanent makeup. She had some information on the services that she would be offering. She was ACLS certified. She had infection control background and taught a course for OSHA for office child care Services to license daycares. She had been trained ji.n doing the procedure. It was a tattoo procedure but if was done on the fop dermal layers of the skin. Her intentions were to provide a service to the community for chemotherapy patients that required eyebrows or eyelashes, People with alopecia who have some partial hair loss, There would also be a service for the removal of radiation tattoos from radiation therapy. There would eyeliner; lip liner and lips with eyelash enhancement would be the procedures they would be offering at this time. She would like to operate out of Sunsational Tanning. She would be.seeking a permit of establishing a body art facility also. The bio-hazardous material would be handled with a small sharps. container. Everything was disposable that she would be using right now. She wouldn't be using any machine equipment. It was a hand tool that was disposable. The needles would get disposed of in a sharps container. They could dispose of that in a bio- hazardous wa to department at Tufts New England Medical center where" she currently works full time as a nursing supervisor. She also worked at Falmouth hospital as a staff nurse. If there were any miscellaneous fire hazard equipment she would have a red bag on band. They had agreed to take that also. The sharp container was only about this big and only required the needles. There was not a lot of disposal. As far as cross- contamination-all the needles would be sterile and brand new. There would be a one-time use. Everything would be sanitized. The whole area would be sanitized. All of her equipment would be used one time also and then disposed of. She would lie-happy to answer any questions. Ms. Warden asked if she was going to block off an area forju t her clients while they were waiting and for privacy during the treatment.