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(Transportation toolkit) The Practice Greenhealth transportation goals have been developed to help hospitals create a baseline of key transportation performance metrics, set targets, and identify strategies to improve environmental and human health impacts of transportation-related activities.
The goals focus on three areas of hospital-related transportation activities critical in achieving reductions in both air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions resulting from transportation and are based on proven strategies demonstrated by Practice Greenhealth member hospitals and health systems and… Read More
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Empower your staff, gain support from leadership, and celebrate your successes. Here are additional resources to help lead your community to a healthier future through organization-wide environmental stewardship.
Sustainability and Employee Engagement Resource List
Type: Resources
(Employee engagement toolkit) As with any other sustainability initiatives, a diverse team is critical to success, and it's no different with employee engagement. The planning document helps identify key team members and to brainstorm the various opportunities that can be learned from the white paper and the case studies.
Sustainability and employee engagement planning document
Type: Resources
Some commonly used antimicrobials in hand hygiene products can pose hazards for employees and the environment and may increase antimicrobial resistance
The Practice Greenhealth Safer hand hygiene how-to guide provides guidance and resources for hospitals to eliminate the use of triclosan and triclocarban in hand hygiene products in non-critical areas.
Type: Resources
The main task of a regulated treatment system is to render the waste noninfectious. The technical means to disinfect medical waste has existed for a long time. Incineration was once the method of choice for dealing with medical waste, and many hospitals burned their waste on site. But it gradually became clear that, while protecting the public from infection, hospitals using onsite incinerators were exposing the public to emissions that included mercury, dioxins, and other highly toxic substances. In 1996, medical waste incinerators were listed as the largest source of dioxin and in 1997, as… Read More
Type: Resources
Increased awareness around the presence of pharmaceuticals in drinking water has resulted in closer scrutiny and increased regulatory oversight of pharmaceutical waste. Evidence of feminization of fish raised a red flag and resulted in more studies, closer scrutiny, and concern for human health and the environment. The U.S. Geological Survey has done extensive work to characterize the kinds and volumes of pharmaceuticals ending up in waterways. Learn more at U.S. Geological Survey's Emerging Contaminants Project.
While hazardous pharmaceutical waste management is a headline news item at… Read More
Type: Resources
(Less water toolkit) The Health care water conservation and pollution prevention presentation and script was developed to help you educate your community. Download the presentation with notes to use as you see fit.
Type: Resources
Sample poster from Dartmouth-Hitchcock made with a customizable template to raise awareness around less waste.
Type: Resources
Transitioning grassroots or departmental greening initiatives towards a formalized sustainability plan requires an engaged leadership team. And it's no coincidence that the furthest-reaching health care facilities have firm leadership engagement. Engaged leaders help move sustainability initiatives beyond specific areas of success and reach across all departments and initiatives with a direct link to the strategic direction of the organization.
When health care leaders can articulate why this work is important on a personal level and then operationalize that commitment throughout the… Read More
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Infection prevention and control in health care is of primary importance. Healthcare-associated infections (HAI) direct costs are between $35.75 billion annually and result in almost 100,000 deaths in the US. HAIs also hold implications for reimbursement, as CMS now requires that the occurrence of three HAI related Healthcare acquired Conditions (HACs) may result in lower reimbursement rates in Medicare patients without other complication. This rule continues as part of its annual Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) rule which took effect on October 1, 2008. Although there may not… Read More
Type: Resources
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