AMDR President, Dan Vukelich will be speaking today at the International Association of Healthcare Central Sterile Materiel Management (IAHCSMM) conference in San Diego.  IAHCSMM has been a premier association for central service and sterile processing

AMDR joins the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses to celebrate Nurses Week! To celebrate its nurses this week and beyond, AORN released a video from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that captures the extensive work

Last year, an initiative of 350 hospitals under the Healthy Hospitals Initiative (HHI) recycled more than 50 million pounds of materials, diverted 61.5 million pounds of construction and demolition waste from landfills, and saved almost

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

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 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