Greening Hospitals Would Cut Health Care Costs
Cutting energy use and waste could save $5.4 billion over the next five years and $15 billion over 10 years. Although hospitals are making progress, they are still among the most energy-intensive facilities accounting for 8% of
American Hospital Association Launches Revamped Sustainability Roadmap Website
The American Hospital Association (AHA) has launched a revamped website that provides free, practical tools to help healthcare facilities reduce their environmental footprints. The Sustainability Roadmap www.sustainabilityroadmap.org/ shows hospitals how to implement real-world sustainability projects,
Stanford University Medical Center and Gundersen Health System Join Healthier Hospitals Initiative
Stanford University Medical Center and Gundersen Health System have joined other major hospital systems in the Healthier Hospitals Initiative (HHI), a collaboration of leading health care institutions united to help speed the health care sector
AMDR President Dan Vukelich Published in Arab Medical Hygiene – “A Winning Approach”
The re-use of single use instruments is a process that can save you money and benefit the environment, as Daniel J Vukelich explains. Worldwide, healthcare providers are struggling to find safe, reliable, and affordable solutions
Hospitals Divert 100million Pounds of Waste from Landfills
The Healthier Hospitals Initiative kept more than 100 million pounds of waste out of landfills in its initial year, according to the program’s first progress report. The program’s 370 member hospitals recycled more than 50 million pounds of
Sterilmed and Stryker Sustainability Solutions given Champion For Change Awards for Environmental Excellence by Practice Greenhealth
Practice Greenhealth wishes to congratulate its 320 Award winners! Environmental Excellence Award winners are the hospitals, health care providers and organizations of the future. They are innovative and progressive, finding imaginative ways to take their environmental programs