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
Kaiser Permanente Southern California Win 10 National Environmental Awards for work including reprocessing medical devices.
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
Poll Reveals 90 percent of Hospitals Increasing Sustainability Investment; Focusing on Greener Health Care Operations
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
Balancing Costs with Care Through Reprocessing Programs
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
FIRST-EVER Healthier Hospitals Initiative's 2012 Milestone Report
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