Blog
May 2013
Saving Green by Going Green
Association of Medical Device Reprocessing President Daniel Vukelich was featured in Real World Healthcare today in an article titled “Going Green Saves Green.” The article [...]
Green Healthcare Design: More than a fad.
In a 2010 Health Care Facilities Sustainable Operations Survey by the American Society of Healthcare Engineering, they indicate that 79 percent of healthcare facilities opt [...]
Healthcare Without Harm Honors Environmental Health Hero
Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) has honored Bill Ravanesi—a photographer, documentarian, activist, and tireless champion for social justice with its Environmental Health Hero Award for his [...]
Association of Medical Device Reprocessors President Daniel Vukelich will be speaking at the International Association of Healthcare Central Service Material Management today
AMDR President, Dan Vukelich will be speaking today at the International Association of Healthcare Central Sterile Materiel Management (IAHCSMM) conference in San Diego. IAHCSMM has [...]
The Association of Medical Device Reprocessors would like to thank nurses during National Nurses Week.
AMDR joins the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses to celebrate Nurses Week! To celebrate its nurses this week and beyond, AORN released a video from [...]
Hospitals Find Returns on Investment in Re-Use and Reprocessing Efforts
Last year, an initiative of 350 hospitals under the Healthy Hospitals Initiative (HHI) recycled more than 50 million pounds of materials, diverted 61.5 million pounds [...]
Greening Hospitals Would Cut Health Care Costs
Cutting energy use and waste could save $5.4 billion over the next five years and $15 billion over 10 years. Although hospitals are making progress, they [...]
American Hospital Association Launches Revamped Sustainability Roadmap Website
The American Hospital Association (AHA) has launched a revamped website that provides free, practical tools to help healthcare facilities reduce their environmental footprints. The Sustainability [...]
Stanford University Medical Center and Gundersen Health System Join Healthier Hospitals Initiative
Stanford University Medical Center and Gundersen Health System have joined other major hospital systems in the Healthier Hospitals Initiative (HHI), a collaboration of leading health [...]
AMDR President Dan Vukelich Published in Arab Medical Hygiene – “A Winning Approach”
The re-use of single use instruments is a process that can save you money and benefit the environment, as Daniel J Vukelich explains. Worldwide, healthcare [...]
Hospitals Divert 100million Pounds of Waste from Landfills
The Healthier Hospitals Initiative kept more than 100 million pounds of waste out of landfills in its initial year, according to the program’s first progress report. [...]
Sterilmed and Stryker Sustainability Solutions given Champion For Change Awards for Environmental Excellence by Practice Greenhealth
Practice Greenhealth wishes to congratulate its 320 Award winners! Environmental Excellence Award winners are the hospitals, health care providers and organizations of the future. They are innovative [...]
April 2013
Kaiser Permanente Southern California Win 10 National Environmental Awards for work including reprocessing medical devices.
Ten Kaiser Permanente Medical Centers in Southern California received environmental excellence awards from Practice Greenhealth in recognition of their efforts to reduce waste and prevent pollution. Kaiser Permanente [...]
Poll Reveals 90 percent of Hospitals Increasing Sustainability Investment; Focusing on Greener Health Care Operations
Practice Greenhealth, which advocates for sustainable, environmentally friendly practices in the healthcare industry, and Johnson & Johnson, a sponsor of the CleanMed Conference and Exposition [...]
Balancing Costs with Care Through Reprocessing Programs
William D. Kellar, who supports healthcare supply chain operations in the HCA TriStar division with 18 hospitals and 10 ambulatory surgery centers in Tennessee, Kentucky, [...]
FIRST-EVER Healthier Hospitals Initiative's 2012 Milestone Report
Data from U.S. Hospitals Shows Decreased Environmental Impacts and Costs In the first-ever Healthier Hospitals Initiative 2012 Milestone Report, 370 HHI-member hospitals indicate that they have reduced [...]
Healthcare Programs Reap Benefits from Reprocessing
Hundreds of hospitals saved a collective $32 million in 2012 by reprocessing single-use medical devices, a practice that was highlighted by the Healthier Hospitals Initiative [...]
CleanMed Announces its Fourth Annual European Conference –Pathways to Sustainable Healthcare
Health Care Without Harm Europe and The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare are pleased to invite you to its 2013 conference in Oxford, UK where you [...]
CleanMed 2013 – Connect to the Power of the Health Care Sector
AMDR President Dan Vukelich is attending CleanMed in Boston this week (http://www.cleanmed.org/). It is the premier conference on environmental sustainability for the health care sector. [...]
Vascular Solutions Surpasses 20,000 Successfully Reprocessed ClosureFAST(R) Catheters
Reprocessing of popular vein treatment catheter results in significant cost savings and medical waste reduction for vein practices. Since the service was launched in January [...]