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In light of the opioid epidemic, environmental concern over medication in waterways and confusing and sometimes conflicting DEA and EPA regulations, Practice Greenhealth formed a controlled substances work group to develop a guidance document helping health care facilities properly and legally manage controlled substances within the facility. The flow chart leads the facility through the steps to ensure legal and safe handling of controlled substances. While this is a regulatory requirement, the guidance document helps facilitate implementation of legal and safe practices.
Type: Resources
Here are suggested environmental considerations for the RFI/RFP process for this contract category. This category covers copiers, digital duplicators, facsimile machines, mailing machines, multifunctional devices, printers, and scanners. Recent updates to this category include questions based on a new EPEAT standard (Electronic Products Environmental Assessment Tool) on “Imaging Equipment,” which is defined as copiers, printers, mailing machines, multifunctional devices, printers and scanners (not medical devices). Hundreds of products are EPEAT registered to meet this standard.
Type: Resources
Chelsea (they/them) is responsible for data and metrics deliverables, maintaining data platforms, and awards benchmarking. With nine years of experience in the health care field, they previously served as sustainability coordinator for UT Southwestern Medical Center and as management engineer for Baylor Scott & White Health in Texas, focusing on process improvement, data analysis, and related areas. They live in Dallas with their partner Victoria and dog Gracie, and love traveling, hiking, listening to audiobooks while walking Gracie, and riding their e-bike all over town.
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Chelsea is responsible for our data and metrics deliverables, maintaining our data platforms, and awards benchmarking. With nine years of experience in the health care field, they previously served as sustainability coordinator for UT Southwestern Medical Center and as management engineer for Baylor Scott & White Health in Texas, focusing on process improvement, data analysis, and related areas. They live in Dallas with their partner Victoria and dog Gracie, and love traveling, hiking, listening to audiobooks while walking Gracie, and riding their e-bike all over town.
Type: Staff
The Greehealth Cost of Ownership Calculator is designed to support looking at costs beyond the price tag, to evaluate hidden expenses, such as energy and waste costs, and other operational costs of using a product allowing more informed decision-making based on the full costs to an organization. Below you will find the calculator as well as helpful training and support materials.
For hospitals purchasing equipment that use resources, the calculator will provide them with the true cost of the device over its lifespan.– Dana Farber Cancer Institute, senior director of supply chain
Type: Toolkit
In 1998, a Memorandum of Understanding between the American Hospital Association and the U.S. EPA set new goals for hospital pollution prevention. One of the top priorities was the virtual elimination of mercury and mercury-containing devices from the hospital purchasing and waste stream. Mercury is a potent neurotoxin. The most sensitive health effect of mercury is an adverse impact on the neurological development of fetuses, infants and children. Hospitals should protect the health of patients, staff and visitors, and reduce disposal costs and liability by avoiding purchase of mercury-… Read More
Type: Resources
(Employee engagement toolkit) The rate at which Cleveland Clinic uses energy has financial costs, as well as human and environmental health impacts. Reducing the rate of energy used creates a cleaner environment, improves health, and delivers substantial cost savings over the short and long term. In pursuit of care affordability, over $12M of energy waste was identified across the health system. As the facilities experts fine-tune and upgrade buildings and operating systems, caregivers’ workplace behaviors come into sharp focus to help reduce energy demand.
Type: Resources
Seattle Children’s Hospital has implemented a policy that demonstrates commitment to the principles of Environmentally Preferred Procurement (EPP) in support of the hospital's mission to improve the health of patients and families, staff, and the community. Seattle Children’s will evaluate the environmental impacts (e.g., waste, toxicity) of products and services in an effort to select healthy and safe products and services that are also environmentally sound. Seattle Children’s staff involved with product selection will communicate to the marketplace that Children’s expects suppliers to… Read More
Type: Resources
Mayo Clinic is dedicated to improving the health of its patients and staff through excellence in the practice of medicine. Recognizing the link between environmental health and public health, Mayo Clinic is committed to fiscally responsible environment protection practices that benefit the health of patients, staff, and communities. Therefore, Mayo Clinic exercises a thoughtful and comprehensive sustainable approach to environmental stewardship, which includes energy conservation, green building design, and environmentally responsible purchasing and waste management programs.
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Type: Resources
(Health Care Without Harm) There are many opportunities for hospitals to improve patient safety, worker safety, and the overall health of communities and the environment via their food service operations. By implementing environmentally preferable purchasing and other operational and maintenance strategies in food service, hospitals can help to reduce patient, worker and community exposure to toxic chemicals, preserve the effectiveness of antibiotics for treatment of human disease, prevent air and water pollution, reduce waste, conserve natural resources and potentially save money over the… Read More
Type: Resources
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