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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
(Sustainable procurement guide) This checklist will assist hospitals and health systems in setting procurement priorities incorporating regulatory, environmental, health, and operational considerations. The principals: transparency, accountability, and fairness should guide any procurement program.
Type: Resources
Through your purchasing, there are many ways you can improve the health and well-being of people in your community and ensure that farm and food workers can live and work with dignity. In this section, we outline best practices that support a valued workforce and community health and nutrition.
Type: Basic page
(Anesthetic gas toolkit) Anesthesia and anesthetic gases have a direct impact on the environment, patients, and community health. This document highlights key talking points and rationale for focusing on anesthesia, such as environmental, financial, and human health impacts and the need to engage providers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Type: Resources
The Washington Hospital Healthcare System (WHHS) affirms our commitment to promote healthier communities both locally and globally. We will strive to be an environmental leader in a manner that protects environmental and human health. WHHS recognizes the critical link between human health and the health of the environment. We will implement new and innovative ways to improve environmental performance through conservation, purchasing, reduction, re-use and recycling programs, and through partnership with others in the community to safeguard the environment. WHHS will strive to achieve optimal… Read More
Type: Resources
Patel (she/her) is a clinical associate professor of pediatrics at Stanford School of Medicine and executive director at the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, which represents 56 major medical societies and 29 state clinician groups who work to advocate, communicate, and educate on climate change as a crisis of public health. She is also a member of the executive committee for the AAP's council on environmental health and climate change, and a board member for Our Children's Trust and Undaunted K12. Patel is a former Presidential Management Fellow with the EPA. She has been… Read More
Type: Event Presenters
[From Ohio Hospital Assocation] The Ohio Hospital Association’s Energy and Sustainability Program teamed up with Practice Greenhealth to publish a collection of environmental leadership case studies highlighting how six hospitals and health systems have achieved success in environmental stewardship.
The collection of case studies describes the environmental efforts and successes of six OHA Melvin Creeley and John Chapman award winning hospitals:
88th Medical Group at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center
Mercy Health… Read More
Type: Press
While there are opportunities for reducing the impacts from floor finish and strippers, none of the options completely eliminate health concerns or suggest a clear environmentally preferable solution. But there are choices that can be made to minimize impacts to health and the environment through procedural and purchasing paths. Elimination and substitution are inherently safer and the most effective at reducing the hazard.
Type: Resources
Hospital food service often mirrors general societal food consumption patterns. However, the health mission and large purchasing power of hospitals make them excellent models and drivers for healthier food environments and systems. There is an emerging understanding that the “health” of a food choice is a combination of the nutritional benefits is provides, and the way in which that food was produced, transported and prepared.
Type: Resources
“I just wanted to send some quick feedback about the menu. The new lentils dish along with the tofu today were both fantastic! I also especially like when you have legume-based salads as part of the salad bar. In any case, thank you so much for continually expanding the healthy vegetarian options!” - Medical resident at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire is a signatory of the Cool Food Pledge, a new platform to help hospitals offer diners more of what they want while slashing food-related… Read More
Type: Resources
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