Healthcare

DOE Guide to Help Hospitals Achieve 50% Energy Savings

DOE Guide to Help Hospitals Achieve 50% Energy SavingsLED surgery lights, HVAC systems and improved facility design, among other technologies, can cut large hospitals’ energy costs in half, according to a Department ...

May 4, 2012

EL Pro Abbott Sustainability Report: Three 2015 Targets Met Four Years Early

Abbott Sustainability Report: Three 2015 Targets Met Four Years EarlyGlobal health care company Abbott Laboratories reached its 2015 goals for carbon dioxide emissions, water intake and waste output in 2011, while increasing year-on-year sales ...

May 3, 2012

Dignity Healthcare Taps Medline Industries for Dye-Free Plastic

Dignity Healthcare Taps Medline Industries for Dye-Free PlasticDignity Health has become the first health system in the U.S. to switch to dye-free patient plastics. Under the new initiative, Dignity Health will replace everyday ...

April 5, 2012

Lighting and Sustainable Healthcare

Lighting and Sustainable Healthcare Philips Lighting masterclass session at the NHS Sustainability Conference, February 2012.

April 3, 2012

EL Pro Kaiser Permanente Targets 30% GHG Cut by 2020

Kaiser Permanente Targets 30% GHG Cut by 2020Health care provider Kaiser Permanente has pledged to reduce its overall greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2020, compared to its 2008 levels. Kaiser produced ...

February 29, 2012

Cardinal Health Shrinks Packaging By Folding Gloves

Cardinal Health Shrinks Packaging By Folding GlovesCardinal Health says it has made its surgical glove packaging at least 30 percent smaller than competitors' tall packaging configurations, and used at least ...

February 22, 2012

Hospital Energy Management Tips

Hospital Energy Management Tips Ian Buckle discusses hospital energy management in this Energy Live News interview.

January 27, 2012

EL Pro Standards & Compliance Briefing: Wine Standard, Energy Star Update, WEEE Recast

Standards & Compliance Briefing: Wine Standard, Energy Star Update, WEEE Recast An international wine trade group has adopted a standard for calculating the industry's greenhouse gas emissions, Off License News reported. The International Organisation of Vine ...

November 8, 2011

EL Pro NHS Supply Chain Cuts Delivery Distances, CO2

NHS Supply Chain Cuts Delivery Distances, CO2NHS Supply Chain, the outsourced procurement arm of the U.K.'s National Health Service, cut delivery distances from 11 million to 9.8 million miles ...

October 31, 2011

Schneider Inks Efficiency Contract with UNT Health Science Center

Schneider Inks Efficiency Contract with UNT Health Science CenterSchneider Electric has signed an $8.6 million contract extension to provide energy efficiency improvements to the the University of North Texas Health Science Center (pictured). Upgrades to ...

October 21, 2011

Practice Greenhealth Launches Green Medical Procurement Tool

Practice Greenhealth Launches Green Medical Procurement ToolPractice Greenhealth has released version 1.0 of its Standardized Environmental Questions for Medical Products, which can be used to guide procurement of environmentally preferable medical products. The ...

October 14, 2011

Hospitals Save $2.3m a Year with CHP Plants

Hospitals Save $2.3m a Year with CHP PlantsCombined heat and power systems at Guy’s Hospital (pictured) and St. Thomas Hospital, both in London, are saving more than £1.5 million ($2.3 million) ...

October 3, 2011

EL Pro Merck Cuts GHGs, Outlines Post-Merger Goals

Merck Cuts GHGs, Outlines Post-Merger GoalsMerck’s sales and acquisition-adjusted GHG emissions fell by six percent between 2009 and 2010, from 2.21 and 2.08, according to the company’s 2010 global corporate responsibility report, its first in accordance with GRI principles since ...

October 3, 2011

Sustainable Chemistry, Sustainable Healthcare, Sustainable Life

Sustainable Chemistry, Sustainable Healthcare, Sustainable LifeThis is the third in a series of articles from the winners of the 2011 Dow Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge ...

September 29, 2011

NHS to Assess Emissions of Procurement

NHS to Assess Emissions of ProcurementThe U.K.’s National Health Service has begun assessing the carbon footprint of health care procurement. Many N.H.S. bodies already include environmental costs into their procurement decision making, ...

September 29, 2011

Inova Health System Discusses Sustainability Program

Inova Health System Discusses Sustainability Program In part 1 of a two-part video, Seema Wadhwa, Sustainability Engineer for Inova Health System, talks about how INOVA started their ...

September 14, 2011

Bayer Saves 1m Gallons Through Water Reuse

Bayer Saves 1m Gallons Through Water ReuseBayer HealthCare has saved more than a million gallons of water since January with a wastewater treatment system at its animal health division headquarters ...

September 14, 2011

Health Industry Group Launches Green Purchasing Program

Health Industry Group Launches Green Purchasing ProgramThe health industry is launching a common set of tools to ensure that environmentally preferred products are available and cost-competitive. The tools for purchasers, ...

August 24, 2011

Pharma Sets Few Supply Chain Goals, Report Finds

Pharma Sets Few Supply Chain Goals, Report FindsPharmaceutical companies are “all over the map” in terms of their environmental goals and transparency, but largely don't set targets for their supply ...

August 4, 2011

Johnson & Johnson Sets Goals for Carbon, Water, Waste, Renewables

Johnson & Johnson Sets Goals for Carbon, Water, Waste, RenewablesJohnson & Johnson is targeting a 20 percent cut in facility CO2 emissions by 2020 and a 10 percent cut in water use ...

July 15, 2011