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Hackensack University Medical Center’s annual food and beverage budget is $5 million with an estimated $1.5 million spend on meat and poultry. They serve more than 2.8 million meals annually. In only 18 months, Hackensack University Medical Center now leads the country in achieving a 98 percent benchmark of meat and poultry raised without routine antibiotics. Leadership is driving change through their GPO and the broader marketplace so other hospitals can have access to and benefit from purchasing these products. The medical center received significant media attention for their leadership and… Read More
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(Health Care Without Harm) Across the country, health professionals are developing resolutions calling for an end to the procurement of meat produced with the routine (non-therapeutic) use of medically important antibiotics, to preserve the efficacy of these drugs for human medicine. Health Care Without Harm has developed a toolkit of helpful resources for facilities.
The toolkit includes a how-to guide for organizing the development and passage of a resolution in your facility, professional association or medical society; and sample resolution templates.
Type: Resources
There are numerous ways that hospitals can provide community benefit support for healthy food access programs. This brief outlines nine common role categories — and on-the-ground examples — that hospitals are playing in support of these programs:
Provide grant support
Provide use of hospital facilities
Conduct food insecurity or health screening
Conduct nutrition, food, or cooking education
Provide staff or financial support for program evaluation
Provide staff support for grant writing or securing sustainable funding of community benefit initiatives
Manage or coordinate a program or… Read More
Type: Resources
The huge quantities of medicines ending up as waste or in aquatic systems are a major environmental health issue. The increasing documentation of low dose effects makes pharmaceuticals a priorityarea from an environmental health perspective.
Type: Resources
Simply defined, a hazardous waste is a waste with properties that make it dangerous or capable of having a harmful effect on human health or the environment. Hazardous waste is generated from many sources, ranging from industrial manufacturing process wastes to batteries and may come in many forms, including liquids, solids gases, and sludges.
EPA developed a regulatory definition and process that identifies specific substances known to be hazardous and provides objective criteria for including other materials in the regulated hazardous waste universe.
Type: Resources
A visual guide to Gundersen Lutheran's waste separation process.
Type: Resources
Since Florence Nightingale first helped make the connection between cleaning and improved health outcomes, health care workers and the cleaning industry have responded with a wide array of effective and economical products and processes. However, we now know that some of these older and traditional cleaning products and processes can negatively impact both health and the environment. Today, new, less toxic cleaning products are becoming an integral component of a healing environment by:
reducing stress on the building's occupants
improving safety
contributing to improved ecological health… Read More
Type: Resources
Practice Greenhealth tracks targeted activities around safer chemicals in three areas – Green Cleaning, PVC/DEHP reduction and Healthy Interiors. This webinar reviews these three areas, explaining how to access the data and where to find Practice Greenhealth resources to support success in tracking movement towards healthier materials.
Type: Resources
As chronic disease management statistics continue to grow, health care is focused on reversing that trend. We now know certain types of cancer, learning and developmental disabilities, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, reproductive health and fertility problems and asthma are some of the chronic diseases that can be linked in some way to the harmful chemicals we are all exposed to.
Hackensack University Medical Center has built a strong foundation by implementing a safer chemicals policy and including safer chemicals as a standing agenda item at the Environment of Care committee meetings.
Type: Resources
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