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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.
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Practice Greenhealth provides a template that can be edited to make a poster on climate and human health. Use the increasing levels of ozone smog and local data on asthma and respiratory disease to illustrate how climate and human health intersect. This is an example of the poster with Ohio statistics.
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Pharmaceutical waste can be classified as either regulated medical waste, solid waste, or hazardous waste, depending on regulations of a hospital’s state and locality. Regardless of the waste stream, our member hospitals have identified safe and responsible pharmaceutical waste disposal as a pressing challenge for several reasons:
Flushing and dumping, once common go-tos for disposal, are no longer best practice now that more and more evidence shows these discarded medications end up in groundwater.
More stringent regulations for controlled substances require additional attention to how… Read More
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Greening the OR is a sector-wide initiative that will provide administrators and OR managers with the tools necessary to reduce environmental impact while driving down costs. This complete set of guidance documents includes:
The business case
Checklist
Implementation modules
Case studies
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This is a sample integrated pest management contract for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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Single-use medical devices are expensive resources that end up in the landfill after use. By using reprocessed medical devices, Virginia Mason has provided the highest quality of care, while reducing waste to the landfill and reducing supply costs by over $3M in three years. In 2014, Virginia Mason reprocessed or recycled over 18,850 pounds of devices, which may have otherwise have been discarded in a landfill
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Northshore University Health System has implemented waste management and recycling programs in the operating room. Employee education, staff engagement, and other initiatives have resulted in an increase in recycling rates and reductions in medical and solid waste. Open the presentation to see how Northshore was able to make sustainability improvements.
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Hospital sustainability programs reduce costs and enhance the quality of patient care. However, given the long list of priorities that hospitals must tackle, sustainability too often falls by the wayside. Today, the benefits of sustainability are too important to ignore. The operating room is often the largest generator of revenue, as well as the largest consumer of supply costs and the biggest generator of waste. Sustainability in the operating room is a multipronged initiative that can include, but is not limited to, recycling and reprocessing equipment; reducing prescription drug waste;… Read More
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(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.
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(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.
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