how to delete or inactivate a visit status code

Is there a way to remove or at least inactivate a “visit status code” in eCW?

I have a list of like 20 visit status codes, many of which are duplicates or old codes we no longer use. (Someone created them at various times and we can’t edit them or delete them!) I can’t seem to delete any old codes because it says they have been used somewhere sometime.

“Could not delete this Visit Status as it exists in an encounters [sic]”

Every time we go to check out a patient, we have to scroll through a list of old visit status codes to find the right ones.