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

Ten Kaiser Permanente Medical Centers in Southern California received environmental excellence awards from Practice Greenhealth in recognition of their efforts to reduce waste and prevent pollution.  Kaiser Permanente was presented the awards at the 2013 CleanMed conference , an annual

Practice Greenhealth, which advocates for sustainable, environmentally friendly practices in the healthcare industry, and Johnson & Johnson, a sponsor of the CleanMed Conference and Exposition in Boston last week, conducted a poll targeting the 56

William D. Kellar, who supports healthcare supply chain operations in the HCA TriStar division with 18 hospitals and 10 ambulatory surgery centers in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Northern Georgia, wrote an article  on ways the hospitals

Data from U.S. Hospitals Shows Decreased Environmental Impacts and Costs In the first-ever Healthier Hospitals Initiative 2012 Milestone Report, 370 HHI-member hospitals indicate that they have reduced their environmental footprint, lowered costs and improved patient health by

Hundreds of hospitals saved a collective $32 million in 2012 by reprocessing single-use medical devices, a practice that was highlighted by the Healthier Hospitals Initiative in its first milestone report detailing the program’s results over