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As one of the largest users of supplies and generators of hospital waste, the operating room (OR) is a strategic priority for any hospital hoping to reduce its impact on the environment. This tool is designed to assist health care providers in assessing the status of environmental best practices in the OR.
Type: Resources
Concerned with growing water scarcity, water-quality risks, and increasing water costs, among other factors, Kaiser Permanente has stepped up its efforts to conserve water by lowering their water consumption and reducing chemical waste and other hazards that pollute.
Type: Resources
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) The Guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities, 2008, presents evidence-based recommendations on the preferred methods for cleaning, disinfection, and sterilization of patient care medical devices and for cleaning and disinfecting the healthcare environment.
Type: Resources
(Greenhealth cost of ownership toolkit) Below are some common questions individuals may have when using the Greenhealth cost of ownership (GCO) calculator.
How can I choose which types of products to assess in the GCO calculator?
Where can I find data that I don't have?
How can I approach suppliers to ask for some of this data?
Which discount rate should I choose?
How can I convert from uses per patient to uses per year?
Does the calculator provide guidance on unit conversions?
What can I do if the results I get when using the tool are zero?
How can I interpret and communicate the… Read More
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Nikhil Sahni is a partner at McKinsey and Company, advising health care organizations on corporate strategy, business-unit strategy, inorganic growth, and operational efficiency, and a leader in McKinsey’s Center for U.S. Health System Reform. Sahni serves as a fellow with Professor David Cutler at the Harvard University department of economics. In his previous role as senior director of strategy, planning, and operations at a health care IT company, he helped raise $25 million and tripled the company’s size. As policy director of cost trends and special projects for the Massachusetts Health… Read More
Type: Staff
(Anesthetic gas toolkit) The pharmaceutical agents used for anesthesia and analgesia have environmental impacts on air, water, and climate. Learn about environmental impacts and specific examples of waste drugs in water supplies, as well as regulatory issues and a new process that recovers and reuses pharmaceutical agents.
Type: Resources
Hospitals and food banks will provide nutritious food to communities in need across the country.
June 7, 2016 (Reston, Virginia) – Practice Greenhealth and Feeding America announced today a new collaboration to help Americans living at risk of hunger. The nation’s largest domestic hunger relief organization and leading health care sustainability membership organization have created a nationwide program to donate excess food from hospitals and health care facilities to local food banks.
More than 48 million Americans are food insecure, according to the USDA.
“Building upon its commitment to… Read More
Type: Press
For the third year in a row, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) received Practice Greenhealth’s Greening the OR Leadership Award for their industry-leading, comprehensive program, which reduces the environmental impact of MSK’s surgical suites.
MSK’s continued leadership and success would not be possible without prioritizing stakeholder engagement from every department – evidenced by their more than 400 staff volunteering as GreenReps, dedicated task forces across various departments, and broad representation on their Greening the OR Committee from anesthesiology, environmental… Read More
Type: Press
These are suggested environmental considerations for the RFI/RFP for reusable textiles that are in addition to some of the Standardized Environmental Questions for Medical Products, V1.0. This contract category for reusable textiles covers everything from towels and blankets, staff and patient apparel, to room decor (such as curtains, drapes).
Type: Resources
We are pleased to share Practice Greenhealth’s latest sustainability benchmark report, based on data from the 2022 calendar year.
The 370 hospitals that contributed data collectively saved more than $197.4 million on sustainability initiatives in 2022, while pushing the market for more environmentally preferable products and materials with more than $939.7 million in sustainable spending..
These hospitals reduced more than 389.6 million kBtus of energy, saved 97.1 million gallons of water, diverted over 264.1 million pounds of waste from the landfill through recycling, and avoided 273,977… Read More
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