The Healthcare Industry Needs to Lead In Finding Climate Change
Healthcare leaders have both a moral responsibility and a historic opportunity to take action. For the first time, the NCA identified healthcare as a significant contributor to the crisis, noting that the sector accounts for 10%
Hospital price growth driving healthcare spending
Hospital prices for inpatient care grew 42% from 2007 to 2014 while physician prices rose 18%, according to a new study. This trend should direct policy reform, researchers said... To read the full article, visit
What Hospitals Buy Matters to Health
Sustainability leaders and health care supply chain professionals are coming together at CleanMed May 7-9 in Nashville to advance strategies and solutions in buying sustainably to ensure improvements in health.Hear from leaders who are driving
Doctors are frightened by climate change. Their industry is a big part of the problem.
Vox notes that a recent New England Journal of Medicine commentary argues that it’s “high time” to tackle climate change in healthcare. Hospitals in the US alone “produce about a pound of hazardous medical waste
Greener Healthcare: Strategies for Sustainable Surgical Units
The Environmental Magazine discussing reprocessing in its article, “Greener Healthcare: Strategies for Sustainable Surgical Units” January 11, 2019: Single-use devices (SUDs) make up a sizable percentage of many medical facilities’ waste. Yet facilities can recycle
Climate change: ‘Right to repair’ gathers force
You can’t repair it and can’t find anyone else to at a decent price, so it joins the global mountain of junk.You’re forced to buy a replacement, which fuels climate change from the greenhouse gases