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(Less water toolkit) Providence St. Peter Hospital was able to significantly reduce its water usage and related utility costs by evaluating and making changes within its sterile processing department. This presentation demonstrates the repairs, upgrades, and protocol changes that were implemented in order to achieve these savings.
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Hazardous waste
Hazardous waste is a small percentage of a hospital’s total generated waste, but it has a big impact on the waste management budget, costing on average more than 15 percent of total waste spending.
Hospitals need to have a clear understanding of how much hazardous waste they generate as different rules apply based on this total. It is also important to understand the federal and state laws that govern the definition and disposal of this costly waste stream.
Hazardous waste is a common byproduct of many hospital operations. Departments that frequently use chemicals… Read More
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Practice Greenhealth has been recognizing environmental excellence in health care sustainability since the Awards program inception in 2002. This is the second annual benchmark report, based on data supplied in applications by 2010 Partner for Change (PFC) and Environmental Leadership Circle (ELC) award winners. The data mirrors the order of the 2010 applications so it can be used to compare a facility to national averages and top performers.
Type: Resources
Practice Greenhealth’s Awards program has celebrated sustainability success since 2002. The Awards recognize the different players in the greening community (hospitals, clinics, manufacturers, GPOs, A&E firms, etc.). One of the Awards for which hospitals may apply, the Partner for Change Award, requires waste data reporting as well as other criteria. This report summarizes this waste data and various sustainable activities provided by the 2009 Partner for Change Award winners and presents a snapshot of what types of greening activities American hospitals are implementing today.
Type: Resources
Practice Greenhealth has been recognizing environmental excellence in health care sustainability since the Awards program inception in 2002. This is the fourth annual benchmark report, based on data supplied in applications by 2012 Partner for Change (PFC) and Environmental Leadership Circle (ELC) award winners.
Type: Resources
Practice Greenhealth has been recognizing environmental excellence in health care sustainability since the Awards program inception in 2002. This is the third annual benchmark report, based on data supplied in applications by 2011 Partner for Change (PFC) and Environmental Leadership Circle (ELC) award winners.
Type: Resources
(Delivering community benefit: Climate and health toolkit) This climate and health toolkit is designed to help environmental leads introduce a new framing of climate and health to their community benefit colleagues. It introduces tools and resources to help community benefit staff identify climate-related health risks in their communities, current projects that have climate co-benefits, and how to integrate climate and health into the community health needs assessment process.
Type: Resources
(Transportation toolkit) Transportation intersects with health care facilities in the ways that employees, patrons, and supplies travel to and from hospitals and satellite facilities, all of which contribute to poor air quality, hospital greenhouse gas emissions, and adverse environmental and community health outcomes. The health care sector is in a position to model and advocate for alternative and healthier modes of transit. Innovative transportation strategies can improve individual and public health by inviting employees out of their cars and into more active and healthy modes of travel,… Read More
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Regulated medical waste, also called red bag waste, biohazard waste, or infectious medical waste is one of the most expensive waste streams to manage.
Though it can make up less than 8 percent of a hospital’s total waste production, it can cost more than 40 percent of their waste management budgets to handle.
Over the last 20 years, we’ve learned a lot about the impacts of regulated medical waste and its disposal from the hospitals we work with.
By narrowing down the scope of regulated medical waste into several sub-categories based on levels of risk they pose, hospitals can more narrowly… Read More
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