Sustainable hospitals could save industry $15B, reports FierceHealthcare: Despite some hospitals' thinking that it will cost more to undertake green initiatives, a recent Commonwealth Fund report found that if healthcare organizations adopted sustainability practices, industry savings could total

Cost reduction and process improvement is priority for Healthcare executives according to HealthLeaders: In our newly released Industry Survey, available for free download on our website, healthcare executives tell us that cost reduction and process improvement is

From Earth911.com: Recycling and reusing medical products isn’t just the environmentally friendly way to perform hospital care – it actually makes financial sense. A little extra recycling effort could mean huge financial savings over the

Jennifer Kovacs Silvis, Managing Editor of Healthcare Design writes on the Costs of Going (or Not Going) Green in Healthcare: What if it was possible to reduce hospital spending nationwide by $5 billion in just

Check out Practice Greenhealth's Greenhealth magazine article, Waste Not; Lessons from one of the country's greenest hospitals on how to make less waste part of the culture.   Kai Abelkis of Boulder Community Hopital's "can-do attitude and