Sustainability also leads to gains in efficiency that ultimately results in cost savings. Hospitals that invest between $100,000 and $1 million in saving energy, for example — things like HVAC upgrades and lighting retrofits — can cut

“The high cost of healthcare today is concerning, and is one reason why sustainability is absolutely essential, yet many organizations are still trying to rally internal consensus around the adoption of environmental goals,” said Joanne

Sterilmed Single-Use Medical Device Reprocessing and Recycling Sterilmed helps hospitals conserve health care resources and deliver maximum cost savings through safe, single-use device reprocessing. Sterilmed’s single-use device reprocessing and recycling services divert more than 6

Practice Greenhealth reports that,  “As the largest consumer of energy in the U.S. economy, the Federal government can and should lead by example when it comes to creating innovative ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,

Practice Greenhealth reports, that in the United States, health care facilities produce roughly 12 million pounds of trash that gets transported to landfills on a daily basis, thus accounting for approximately eight percent of the

Healthcare Facilities Today reports that the Association for the Healthcare Environment (AHE) has launched a new certificate program to acknowledge the environment and ecological sustainability efforts of healthcare environmental service departments. AHE's Environmental Sustainability Certificate Program provides