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

The Commonwealth Fund addresses SUD reprocessing in their report, Can Sustainable Hospitals Help Bend the Health Care Cost Curve? (November 2012): ...if hospitals nationwide adopted the study hospitals' SUD reprocessing intervention, the cost savings would

In Reprocess and Reuse, the November/December issue of GreenHealth addresses SUD reprocessing as one critical method hospitals can create a more sustainable operating room: Reprocessing of medical devices is another growing movement in the health care