Blog
April 2013
How Nurses Impact Reprocessing Programs
Brian White, President of Stryker Sustainability Solutions discusses how hospitals experience significant cost-savings and waste-reduction benefits as a result of a well-integrated, well-supported reprocessing programs. [...]
The Association of Medical Device Reprocessors Celebrates Earth Day!
The Association of Medical Device Reprocessors is happy to celebrate Earth Day today and congratulate our partners who are committed to implementing sustainable, environmentally friendly [...]
Environmental Friendliness in the Endo-Bay
In the healthcare industry, Practice Greenhealth found that American hospitals produce 5.9 million tons of waste each year. In an effort to be more green, [...]
What does Climate Change Have to Do with Health Care?
Gary Cohen, Co-Founder and President of Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth, and on the board of the American Sustainable Business Council and Health Leads, published [...]
10 Overlooked Opportunities for Performance Improvement and Hospital Cost Savings
In an article from Beckers Hospital Review Huron Consulting Group issued a briefing entitled, “Ten Overlooked Opportunities for Significant Performance Improvement and Cost Savings.” The briefing [...]
CleanMed 2013 – Important Boston Location Update
CleanMed, is the premier conference on environmental sustainability for the health care sector which attracts leaders and key decision makers from across the industry. Next [...]
UCSF Medical Center Publishes First Sustainability Report
Protecting the environment is a top priority for the University of California San Francisco Medical Center. In its journey to greener options, it has published [...]
Rhode Island Hospitals Honored for Green Efforts
Eco RI News reports that twenty percent of hospital waste comes from the operating room. In an effort to encourage more hospital sustainability, Hospitals for [...]
Esperança Celebrates Stryker Sustainability Solutions as Largest Donor of Unused Medical Supplies
Often in Stryker Sustainability Solutions daily collection of used medical devices from hospitals and surgery centers throughout the U.S. that it ships for reprocessing, service [...]
Stryker Sustainability Solutions Introduces Virtual Tours of Reprocessing Facilities
Stryker Sustainability Solutions, a leading company in the third-party reprocessing industry wants viewers to know the science and technology behind its reprocessing methods. In order [...]
MHRA releases Response to European Legislation on Medical Devices
The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency found a slim majority of support for its proposed position to allow the reprocessing of single-use devices if [...]
American Nurse Today describes healthcare cost savings through reprocessing programs
American Nurse Today in an April 2013 issue describes how healthcare today is at a critical juncture where finding a balance between better care at lower [...]
Scripps looks to reduce costs through doctors speaking to one another
In a climate where health reform promises lower reimbursements in the future, The San Diego Union Tribune reports Scripps has assisted doctors in talking to [...]
Costs of Care
Jim Sabin, Clinical Professor in the Departments of Population Medicine and Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Ethics Programs at Harvard Pilgrim [...]
Stryker Sustainability's April Reprocessing Report
Check out Stryker Sustainability Solutions' April Reprocessing Report newsletter. In it, Stryker applauds the Association of Medical Device Reprocessors which marked 15 years of promoting [...]
March 2013
Sustainability: Past, Present, and Future
From theenergycollective.com, Sustainability: Past, Present, and Future: The corporate community cannot ignore the overwhelming logic of the business case for sustainability. The benefits include reduced input costs, [...]
Check Out Real World Health Care Blog
Realworldhealthcare.org blog launches, promises to discuss three pillars of health care success: cost-savings, prevention/patient-centered care and access to care. Congratulations. AMDR and the countries' [...]
CSR Talkback: Reducing the Environmental Impact of Hospitals
Adam Cornfield, Product Manager for Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc., part of Johnson & Johnson's Medical Diagnostics & Device sector, discusses the company's EarthWards process to respond [...]
Journal of Healthcare Contracting, Moving forward to Value-Based Contracting,
The Journal of Healthcare Contracting tackles health providers' efforts in Moving forward to Value-Based Contracting, 02/25/13: “Value-based purchasing is shifting our focus from volume to value, [...]
U.S. News' Economic Intelligence: Sustainability Pays
U.S. News & World Report's Economic Intelligence reports that Sustainability Pays. In recent years, many U.S. companies have found that a commitment to sustainability can [...]