Please consider these environmental questions for medical positioners. These questions also apply to mattresses, mattress overlays, therapeutic surfaces, critical care beds, low beds, medical/surgical beds, and bariatric beds.
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Please consider these environmental questions for the RFP/RFI for mattresses. These questions also apply to overlays, therapeutic surfaces, critical care beds, low beds, medical/surgical beds, and bariatric beds.
The suggested environmental questions may be used in the RFP/RFI or as part of the value analysis process. The questions cover electronic medical devices - anything that plugs in or has a battery.
There are choices that can be made to minimize impacts to health and the environment from floor finish and strippers. Elimination and substitution are inherently safer and the most effective at reducing the hazard.
Environmental considerations for products including pitchers, tumblers, carafes, wash basins, utility basins, sitz baths, soap dishes, denture cups, utility bowls, emesis basins, bedpans, specimen pans, medicine cups, specimen containers, liners, and urinals.
The environmental considerations for this category are covered by the 13 standardized environmental questions for medical products. Additional suggested questions are provided that would pertain to any electronic equipment provided in this contract.
This guide explores the pros and cons of various disinfectants and sterilizers.
This guide details the environmental considerations for purchasing ceiling tiles along with the rationale and suggested questions to ask suppliers.
View Advocate Health Care system's 2016 environmentally preferred purchasing policy.
Practice Greenhealth member Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center provided their environmentally preferred contract language from 2016.
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