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During a Health Care Climate Council meeting, Dr. Amy Collins, Health Care Without Harm medical director, led a discussion with Council members about the medical and clinical director of sustainability positions. View the recording to get insights about the role from a few medical directors and hear from sustainability directors on why they feel these clinical leaders are an essential addition to sustainability governance teams.
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Practice Greenhealth partners Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, and PeaceHealth have joined ecochallenge.org for a second year to offer an exciting engagement initiative designed specifically for health care caregivers.
What is the one healthcare ecochallenge?
From April 1-30, you and other members of your organization’s team will use the online platform on the ecochallenge site to select activities to do at work, at home, and in your community to help develop healthy and sustainable habits.
Choose from a wide range of daily and one-time actions crafted with health care employees in mind.… Read More
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Hospitals need to remain operational during and after extreme weather events so people can get the medical care they need and communities can recover from disruption. As climate change leads to increases in the intensity, duration, and geographic reach of extreme weather such as heat waves, hurricanes, flooding, and fires, hospitals must make their facilities more resilient and work with their communities on emergency preparedness planning.
Partners HealthCare’s Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, located on a former brownfield site on the Boston harbor, was built with climate-resilient… Read More
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(Delivering community benefit: Climate and health) Climate change affects the social and environmental determinants of health: clean air, safe drinking water, sufficient food and secure shelter. Doctors are increasingly treating patients with climate-related illnesses, and more than 70 percent recognize that climate is affecting their patients. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) predicts these changes will exacerbate some of our most pressing community health risks: obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular risks, asthma, access to care, and mental health concerns. Children, elderly, and… Read More
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Overlook Medical Center knows its decisions impact the cultural, economic and physical landscape of New Jersey and resonate on a national and global level. Overlook Medical Center is committed to communicating its values to the next generation of health care providers, sharing best practices with peer institutions, and employing innovative strategies to become a leader in sustainable health care.
View this resource to read the full environmental commitment statement.
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Recruitment, retention and satisfaction is on the mind of health care leaders. 2018 marked an 18.5 percent turnover rate in the health care sector, the highest rate in a decade. Last year, 24 percent of new hires left within a year. High turnover combined with health care growth is creating staffing gaps, which impact the bottom line. The average cost for one replaced health care worker is $60,000.
The next generation of health care workers seek employers that share their values and beliefs. Surveys indicate that most people are concerned about climate change and the number of people… Read More
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Practice Greenhealth collected and compiled extensive sustainability data from 327 hospitals to provide timely information to hospitals and health systems working to build environmental stewardship into their mission.
The environmental performance data coming out of health care continues to substantiate the claim that sustainability initiatives can add value, reduce negative health and environmental impacts, and save critical health care dollars.
The hospitals that contributed data as part of their 2019 Environmental Excellence Awards submissions together saved an impressive $68 million on… Read More
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Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital's 2016 strategic plan to improve individual experience of care (quality, safety, access, and service), improve the health of populations and reduce per capita cost of care in populations.
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This position paper describes health care’s role in protecting workers, community health, and the planet through procurement and advocacy.
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Gary Cohen has been a pioneer in the environmental health movement for thirty years. He is Co-Founder and President of Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth. He was also instrumental in bringing together the NGOs and hospital systems that formed the Healthier Hospitals Initiative. All three were created to transform the health care sector to be environmentally sustainable and serve as anchor institutions to support environmental health in their communities.
Cohen is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Sambhavna Clinic in Bhopal, India. He is also on the Boards of… Read More
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