Press & Announcements
-
From Red to Green
April 22nd, 2008 - 12:00 amIn the NewsBy David Ollier Weber
HHN MagazineWhen Kermit the Frog sang his famous lament it reflected a unique personal circumstance. But American hospitals can certainly feel the celebrated Muppet’s pain: “It’s not easy being green.”
Hospitals, in fact, are by their very nature red—a color that symbolizes power, danger, emergency, heat, blood and, on balance sheets, expenses.
Consider...
-
Practice Greenhealth Hires First Executive
April 14th, 2008 - 12:00 amPress ReleasesA new member-based organization, Practice Greenhealth, has named Robert N. Jarboe as its Executive Director. Jarboe, a seasoned nonprofit executive, comes to PracticeGreenhealth with a substantial background in creating nonprofits, nonprofit mergers and transitions of government organizations to nonprofit status. His career, stretching some thirty years, includes the creation, building and management of organizations on local, state and...
-
Addressing Healthcare's Energy and Climate Change Challenges
April 1st, 2008 - 12:00 amPress ReleasesBy Nick DeDominicis
Healthcare Design MagazineRapidly accelerating climate change, caused by greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, is resulting in dangerous environmental events and serious public health consequences. In its recently released Fourth Assessment Report (http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/syr/ar4_syr...
-
Green Guide for Health Care and LEED: Sorting Out the Rating Systems
March 1st, 2008 - 1:00 amIn the NewsBy Richard L. Peck and Gail Vittori
Healthcare Design MagazinePresumably within a matter of days, if it hasn't happened already, the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) will publish the final version of the long-awaited LEED for Healthcare. For the first time since its inception 10 years ago, the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, process for guiding and recognizing levels of excellence in...
-
Focus on Sterilization and High-Level Disinfection in a Healing Environment
January 1st, 2008 - 1:00 amIn the NewsBy Erica Stewart, CIH, HEM and Janet Brown
Healthcare Design MagazineStriving to provide quality care in a healing environment, healthcare facilities are taking a closer look at methods of sterilization and high-level disinfection for reusable medical equipment. Prevalent practices, including the use of ethylene oxide and glutaraldehyde, are not without safety and environmental impacts. Factoring in expensive and often...
-
More Hospitals Using Integrated Pest Management to Reduce Pesticides
June 5th, 2007 - 12:00 amPress ReleasesPest control company Orkin, Inc. and Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E) today announced that an increasing number of hospitals implement Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programs in their facilities, according to the results of a poll of health care professionals.
...
-
Local Man Honored for Hospital Recycling Program
April 5th, 2006 - 12:00 amIn the NewsBy John Saiz
Patterson IrrigatorApril 5, 2006 – St. Joseph’s Medical center in Stockton is receiving national attention for its recycling efforts, and Patterson resident John Kendle has been instrumental in making that happen.
For the past seven months, Kendle has headed up a program that recycles 27 percent of the Stockton hospital’s waste. Now, the hospital is receiving the Environmental Leadership Award from Hospitals for...
