Blog
June 2013
Reflections on the state of health care sustainability
AMDR Board Member Brian White, President of Stryker Sustainability Solutions spoke today at Dotmed News about his organization’s assistance in helping hospitals and healthcare systems [...]
Podcast: Making The Operating Room More Green
Reduce, reuse, recycle? Not in the medical profession. While recycling has become the aspiration or even the norm in most areas of our daily lives, [...]
4 Reasons Why Sustainability Investments Are Vital to Hospital Finance Strategies
Hospital leaders have gradually become more aware of how important sustainability is in their communities, and becoming a greener hospital has now become embedded in [...]
Reprocessing Saves Up to $20k Per OR Annually
Becker’s Healthcare reports at the 11th Annual Spine, Orthopedic & Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference June 13, Timothy Merchant, vice president of sales for MEDISISS, part [...]
Sustainability continues to make gains at hospitals
Health care facilities and systems continue to focus on ways to improve energy efficiency, reduce waste streams and boost recycling efforts as part of their [...]
The Business Case for Sustainability
Trustee, a magazine written specifically for directors of hospitals and health care systems reports that one place hospitals are finding answers to some of their [...]
Why aren't hospitals green?
Wider adoption of the practice of recycling medical equipment that are typically tossed out after a single use could save hospitals hundreds of millions of [...]
Knee Replacements Generate a Surprising Amount of Waste
A single knee arthroplasty produces more waste than a family of 4 generates in an entire week, according to a study in the Canadian Journal of [...]
A greener path to health care
Going green isn’t easy, but Monadnock Community Hospital in Peterborough, NH is taking on the task. Unlike many organizations that focus their efforts in one [...]
Going Green Pays Off for Hospitals, Mother Earth
Hospitals and Health Networks (H&HN) reports that Health systems lead the effort to reduce their effects on the environment. Regardless of what the truth is [...]
Happy World Environment Day, From AMDR
CleanLink, the Professional Cleaning Industry’s Online Resource reports: This special day, which is celebrated every year on June 5, helps raise global awareness about the [...]
May 2013
Consulting Firm Wipfli Confirms: Sustainability in Hospitals = Savings
In response to the “I don’t have time for sustainability” and “Sustainability efforts cost me money” naysayers, please take note of the following: The Healthier [...]
In honor of National Hospital Week last week, May 12 – 18, 2013 AMDR wishes to thank America’s hospitals!
Each year in May the nation celebrates National Hospital Week, a celebration of the history, technology and dedicated professionals that make our hospitals exceptional places [...]
TODAY: AMDR President Dan Vukelich Speaks at Healthcare Materials Management Society of New Jersey
HMMS-NJ is a leader in the development and advancement of healthcare resource and materials management within the state of New Jersey. It provides professional development and [...]
Practice Greenhealth First Annual Greening the OR Symposium
One Day Event: September 4, 2013 | Tampa, Florida The 1st annual Greening the OR Symposium celebrates progress and milestones made on the journey to promoting [...]
Hospitals Bet Big on Sustainability, and Win
Greenbiz reports in a poll conducted by Johnson &Johnson and Practice Greenhealth among 900 hospital administrators and other health care professionals attending last month’s CleanMed Conference [...]
Stryker Sustainability Receives Top Supplier Awards from Novation for Reprocessing Services
Infection Control Today report that Stryker’s Sustainability Solutions has received two prestigious awards from the group purchasing organization Novation for Environmental Excellence. Stryker provided single-use [...]
Improving Community Health Through Sustainable Healthcare
Improving the health of the community has long been the priority of all healthcare systems in the United States. The goal of sustainable design is, [...]
Reprocessing Medical Devices Can Save Hospitals Money
Healthcareix reports that “the practice of reprocessing single-use medical devices arouses the suspicion of some hospitals and healthcare leaders. But many more are finding that [...]
Green Champion – Bringing Sustainability to the OR through Reprocessing
In an article honoring “Green Champion” OR nurse Victoria Rice-Bean of the University of Washington Medical Center, Practice Greenhealth discussed how “looking to new and innovative [...]