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Search Results for: "healthier hospitals initiative"

OR Initiative Saves Hospital System $692K

Spectrum Health, a Michigan-based nonprofit healthcare system, saved $692,000 through Green the OR, a Practice Greenhealth initiative that focuses on reducing cost, waste and exposure to hazardous chemicals in the operating room. Around 30 percent of the hospital’s waste comes from its operating room, so reuse and recycling in the ... Read more »

Hospitals Purchasing, Using Safer Chemicals

More hospitals are reducing patient and staff exposure to toxins by purchasing and using safer chemicals, according to the 2014 Milestone Report, released by the Healthier Hospitals Initiative (HHI). The report summarizes three years of progress among hospitals across the country that submitted data to quantify their sustainability efforts. Hospitals ... Read more »

Minimizing Environmental Footprint while Delivering Affordable Healthcare

Most people agree that a healthy environment is a necessary foundation for human health. And yet, our society faces an interesting paradox in health care: as hospitals deliver care to individuals, their environmental footprints – pollution, energy use, waste production, unsustainable food services – can be harmful to our health. ... Read more »

Hospitals Stop Purchasing Furniture with Toxic Flame Retardants

Advocate Health Care, Beaumont Health System, Hackensack University Medical Center, and University Hospitals will stop purchasing furniture treated with toxic flame retardant chemicals. Combined, these four health systems represent 7,000 patient beds throughout Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, and Ohio. Each of the systems will specify with their suppliers that upholstered ... Read more »

AHA Drives Hospital ‘Sustainability Roadmap’

The American Hospital Association has launched a website to help managers and staff at health care organizations implement sustainability improvements at their facilities. The Sustainability Roadmap includes general information on topics such as building design and construction, commissioning, energy and emissions, water, waste, supply chain and chemicals. The free website ... Read more »

Hospitals Divert 100m Pounds From Landfill

The Healthier Hospitals Initiative kept more than 100 million pounds of waste out of landfills in its initial year, according to the program’s first progress report. The program’s 370 member hospitals recycled more than 50 million pounds of materials and diverted an additional 61.5 million pounds of construction and demolition from ... Read more »

Sustainable Healthcare: A Perfect Match

Sustainability efforts in manufacturing, higher education, governments and retail have been a long time focus and have made great strides. Although these efforts vary in scope and benefits depending on the industry, when it comes to healthcare and hospitals the advantages are especially clear. Simply put, what is good for ... Read more »

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

Hospitals, 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 the way they use energy, which will translate into savings of about $730,000 annually for a newly constructed, code-compliant hospital, according to a study released ... Read more »


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