Healthcare

LEED for Healthcare Launches

LEED for Healthcare LaunchesThe U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has launched LEED for Healthcare, the latest version of its sustainability rating system. The LEED for ...

April 14, 2011

Johnson & Johnson, WM, Six Others Start Medical Recycling Coalition

Johnson & Johnson, WM, Six Others Start Medical Recycling CoalitionKimberly-Clark, Johnson & Johnson and Waste Management are among the companies founding a technical coalition to develop recycling and packaging innovations for medical products. Founders of ...

April 6, 2011

Cardinal Health Gets Highest EPA Transport Score

Cardinal Health Gets Highest EPA Transport ScoreCardinal Health, a $99 billion health care services company, has earned the top score in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) SmartWay Carrier Partnership. The ...

March 7, 2011

Kaiser Permanente and Sustainable Agriculture

Kaiser Permanente and Sustainable Agriculture Author, speaker, and organic farmer, Joel Salatin visited Kaiser Permanente's Oakland Medical ...

February 11, 2011

EL Pro Sustainability Report: McKesson Finds $5m in Energy, Waste Savings

Sustainability Report: McKesson Finds $5m in Energy, Waste SavingsHealth services company McKesson saved more than $5 million in financial year 2010 from energy savings, waste reductions and reusable packaging, according to its ...

February 8, 2011

EL Pro Biomedical Firm Cuts Per-Unit Water, Energy, Carbon

Biomedical Firm Cuts Per-Unit Water, Energy, CarbonThe biomedical company CSL has achieved reductions in environmental impact across all its per-unit indicators, according to its second annual corporate responsibility report ...

February 3, 2011

Kaiser Permanente Switches on Solar Power System

Kaiser Permanente Switches on Solar Power SystemKaiser Permanente has gone live with the first stage of its California-based solar power initiative at Santa Clara Medical Center. The solar panels will produce ...

January 7, 2011

30% More Light, 75% Less Energy for Senior Community Network

30% More Light, 75% Less Energy for Senior Community NetworkBrookdale Senior Living has completed its nationwide lighting retrofit throughout the company's 546 senior care communities. The initiative is estimated to save $5 ...

December 27, 2010

Hospitals Plot Course with Sustainability Roadmap

Hospitals Plot Course with Sustainability RoadmapGroups of health care leaders within the American Hospital Association (AHA) have launched the “Sustainability Roadmap for Hospitals,” a web-based resource for the hospital ...

December 20, 2010

DOE, NREL Show How to Cut Energy Use 50% in Commercial Buildings, Hospitals

DOE, NREL Show How to Cut Energy Use 50% in Commercial Buildings, HospitalsThe U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and its National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have released two technical reports that provide recommendations on how to achieve ...

September 27, 2010

LED Lighting Retrofit to Save Hawaii Hospitals $1.2M

LED Lighting Retrofit to Save Hawaii Hospitals $1.2MHawai'i Pacific Health (HPH), comprised of four nonprofit hospitals and 44 outpatient clinics and service sites, expects to save more than $1.2 million thanks to ...

August 10, 2010

Two-Thirds of Healthcare Orgs Planning Efficiency Investments

Two-Thirds of Healthcare Orgs Planning Efficiency InvestmentsAlmost two-thirds of healthcare organization, 62 percent, said they plan to make capital investments in energy efficiency over the next 12 months, according to ...

July 13, 2010

Half of Hospitals Recycling At Least Some Medical Waste

Half of Hospitals Recycling At Least Some Medical WasteAbout half of U.S. hospitals are recycling at least some of the medical supplies the would otherwise dispose of, as the health care industry is ...

July 7, 2010

New Mexico VA Hospital to Install State’s Largest PV System

New Mexico VA Hospital to Install State’s Largest PV SystemThe Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) Health Care System in Albuquerque, NM, announced it is installing a 3.2 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) system. The system, ...

June 30, 2010

EL Pro Baxter Sustainability Report: Water Use Down 9%, GHG Emissions Drop 5%

Baxter Sustainability Report: Water Use Down 9%, GHG Emissions Drop 5%Baxter International has decreased water use by 9 percent in absolute terms and by 29 percent indexed to revenue compared to 2005, and has reduced ...

June 25, 2010

Health-Care Industry Needs Sustainability Managers

Health-Care Industry Needs Sustainability ManagersThree out of four survey respondents think hospitals need a sustainability manager, according to a survey of health-care professionals attending the "Energy, Economics & Environment: ...

June 10, 2010

Environmental Leader Introduces EL Insights – Data, Market Intelligence and Insights on Energy and Environmental Technology

Environmental Leader Introduces EL Insights – Data, Market Intelligence and Insights on Energy and Environmental Technology Environmental Leader LLC is pleased to announce its latest offering for decision-makers, EL Insights, a subscription-based information source delivering critical data and insights on ...

June 2, 2010

Hospitals Can Cut Energy Use 60% by Redesigning their Energy Systems

Hospitals Can Cut Energy Use 60% by Redesigning their Energy SystemsHospitals, which account for four percent of all energy consumed in the U.S., can achieve a 60 percent reduction in energy utility use by redesigning ...

May 14, 2010

Sustainability at Pfizer’s Belgium Operations

Sustainability at Pfizer’s Belgium Operations Promo video from Pfizer looking at sustainability at its Belgium operations.

May 11, 2010

Kaiser Permanente Unveils Sustainability Scorecard for Medical Products

Kaiser Permanente Unveils Sustainability Scorecard for Medical ProductsKaiser Permanente has unveiled its Sustainability Scorecard that requires suppliers to provide environmental data for medical equipment and products used in its hospitals, medical offices ...

May 4, 2010