Hospital and healthcare system leaders face numerous challenges: workforce burnout, staffing and supply shortages, increasing health disparities, and a continuing trend toward lower reimbursement and higher costs, to name just a few. And now, the esteemed National Academies of Medicine (NAM) wants to add another wicked problem to the list: addressing climate change through decarbonization of the health sector. To some, this will just be one more thing to add to what they consider an already seemingly insurmountable list. But if you consider each of these issues from a systems perspective, it becomes clear that they are interrelated, and adding the health of the planet to the mix may create a galvanizing platform to help find solutions to multiple problems. And once again, supply chain is front and center as a contributor to both the problem and the potential solutions. . .
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