Blog
September 2013
Going for the green: Tools to help hospitals on the road to sustainability
Returning value through sustainability seems to be more important than ever. Health care systems understand that sustainability efforts provide multiple benefits, but the challenge in [...]
One More Time: Reprocessing is Good For Business
RT: For Decision Makers in Respiratory Care reports that as hospitals across the country look for ways to reduce healthcare costs, more and more product [...]
Caring for Mother Earth Through Sustainability in Hospitals
Hospitals and Health Networks reports that hospitals are making slow, but steady progress toward sustainability. Although they are steadily gaining ground, hospitals appear to be inching [...]
50 of the Greenest Hospitals in America include those reprocessing medical devices
Primum non nocere - the phrase, according to Becker's Hospital Review is common among physicians, meaning "First, do no harm" in Latin. But as hospitals, [...]
Q&A With Dr. Thompson of Gundersen Health: How hospitals can help fight climate change
The Latin phrase, meaning “First, do no harm,” is a core tenet taught to aspiring medical professionals. It most commonly applies to physicians to ensure [...]
Current and Future Trends of Environmental Services Administrators: Achieving Sustainability and Cost Reduction Goals through Reprocessing
Healthcare Purchasing News reports that in an environment where Environmental Services (ES) administrators are asked to do more with less, healthcare facilities should look for [...]
Fixing Patients and the Planet – Healthcare goes green with Healthier Hospital Initiative
The American College of Physicians (ACP) Hospitalist reports that according to Seema Wadhwa, director of program management for the Healthier Hospitals Initiative (HHI), “Environmental sustainability [...]
Think you've reached your hospital's cost savings plateau? Look again!
President of Stryker Sustainability Solutions, Inc., Brian White discussed in an article for DotMed News, that in an era of unprecedented focus on the cost [...]
How Do We “Hardwire” Sustainability into Business?
Thompson Reuters reports that the concept of the triple bottom line of sustainability in business (social, environmental, economic) is decades old. In fact, 93 percent [...]
“Going Green" Creates a Healthier Patient Care Environment
The Paramus Post, reports that in recent years, hospitals across the nation have discovered that the benefits of "going green" go beyond just helping the [...]
Sustainability in healthcare
The Tomah journal of Wisconsin reports that Dr. Cassandra Thiel of the University of Pittsburgh described that the key to raising the environmental sustainability of hospitals [...]
August 2013
Purchasing for our future
Healthcare purchasing news reports that medical products used in the healthcare industry can have negative impacts across facilities and extend into communities. Some generate tremendous [...]
Hospital CEO: It's time to embrace environmental healthcare
Hospital Impact reports that CEO of Inova Health Systems in Fairfax, V.A., J. Knox Singleton, co-authored a book, "Sustainability for Healthcare Management: A Leadership Imperative." [...]
AMDR Response to SGNA Position on Reprocessing Devices Published in EndoNurse
The Association of Medical Device Reprocessors (AMDR), the trade association representing the FDA-regulated, third-party medical device reprocessing industry, has released a response to a recent [...]
Majority of U.S. News & World Report’s 2013-2014 “Honor Roll” Hospitals Support Reprocessing Industry
Each year, U.S. News & World Report releases their annual list of the Best Hospitals across the country, by specialty, including the highly coveted “Honor [...]
Sterilmed Joins Practice Greenhealth’s Greening the OR® Initiative
Practice Greenhealth announces that Sterilmed has signed on as a supporter of one of the non-profit’s major initiatives focused on greening the operating room. Practice [...]
How environment experts envision a ‘green hospital’
Inquirer Business, the Philippine newspaper reports that currently, Health Care Without Harm- Asia is in the midst of a campaign known as Global Green and [...]
Greening the Operating Room Through the Reprocessing of Medical Devices
OR Nurse describes that “Going green,” “greening,” and “sustainability” are all becoming common terms in American society, and the healthcare industry is paying attention. The healthcare industry [...]
Practice Greenhealth and GreeningTheOR.org Mention AMDR in latest “Greening the OR News”
Following AMDR’s recent quarterly emails “Medical Device Reprocessing in the News” which highlight stories depicting the ways in which the reprocessing industry empowers hospitals to [...]
High-Value Medical Decision Making Starts in the Classroom
Thousands of physicians and patients must make cost vs. value decisions in the clinical context every day. The goal is always the same: to choose [...]