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(Anesthetic gas toolkit) Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center focused on reducing desflurane from its formulary to lower GHG emissions and costs.
(Anesthetic gas toolkit) UW Health educated its clinicians, reduced GHG emissions from anesthesia, and achieved financial savings.
(Anesthetic gas toolkit) Learn how William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital reduced its anesthetic gas footprint.
(Less waste toolkit) St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center has reduced its regulated medical waste from 10 to seven percent of total waste, saving an estimated $2,000 per year in waste disposal fees.
Since 2010, Hudson Hospital and Clinic achieved a median recycling rate of 37.60 percent of total hospital waste.
Partners HealthCare redefines resilience and restoration in innovative waterfront hospital
Partners HealthCare sought to grow a closed loop manufacturing process in partnership with Roxbury Technology and to prevent cartridges from ending up in landfills.
By installing a recycling dumpster at Vidant Bertie and Vidant Chowan, small critical access hospitals in eastern North Carolina, managers have seen a 34 percent decrease in cost of solid waste removal at one hospital and 63 percent volume reduction at another.
Anne Arundel Medical Center incorporated techniques that resulted in 1,750 tons of waste being diverted from the landfill during construction, a 93.3 percent recycling rate.
In only 18 months, Hackensack University Medical Center now leads the country in achieving a 98 percent benchmark of meat and poultry raised without routine antibiotics.
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