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March 2011
Health care goes green
DOTmed.com - CleanMed 2011: Health care goes green dotmed.com A glimpse at the upcoming conference on environmental sustainability in health care.
Hospitals May See Green by Going Green
Hospitals and Health Networks Magazine March 2011 By Whitney L.J. Howell "Cost pressures—current and future— are forcing hospitals to look in every nook and cranny [...]
Sharon Regional Receives 'Healthy Hospital' Award
WKBN (Youngstown, Ohio) 03/25/2011 "Sharon Regional Health System has received the Healthy Hospital Award from Ascent, a division of Stryker Corp., for a second time. [...]
AMDR Responds to Inappropriate Device Reuse in Las Vegas
Recent reports in the Las Vegas Review-Journal about a physician's (Dr. Michael Kaplan) reuse of single-use needle guides have brought attention to the fact that [...]
New Online Tool Allows Hospitals to Identify Cost Savings Potential of Reprocessing
EP Lab Digest March 22, 2011 Calculator Quantifies Financial and Environmental Impact of Reprocessing Medical Devices Ascent, a division of Stryker Corporation, continues its commitment [...]
Report Confirms: Reprocessing Single-Use Devices Decreases Costs
Medical Data Institute 03/15/2011 "Health-Economist von Eiff submits a cost-benefit-calculation to the European Commission and proves a savings potential of millions of Euros." "The reprocessing [...]
Medical Device Makers Profit From Waste, While GPOs Grow Fat On Kickbacks
CBS BNET by Ken Terry Originally Posted on July 9, 2010 Ever wonder why there’s so much waste in the U.S. healthcare industry? In the [...]
To Reuse or Not to Reuse
Medical Devices Business Review by Alistair Fleming, Senior Consultant, Sagentia Published March 7, […]
Medical Device Reprocessing: A New Way to Go Green
OR Nurse (subscription or purchase required) Vol. 5, Issue 2, pp. 43-46 March 2011 Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach, California began reprocessing medical devices in [...]
5 Ways Green Surgical Teams Save Hospitals Money
HealthLeaders Media It's no secret that healthcare facilities produce huge amounts of trash, specifically 6,600 tons per day, much of which ends up in landfills [...]
February 2011
Going Green in the Operating Room
Johns Hopkins researchers say they have identified practical strategies to implement environmentally friendly practices in operating rooms and other hospital facilities that could result in [...]
January 2011
Health Watch: Can Hospitals Go Green?
The Randolph County Herald Tribune (Chester, IL) Posted January 17, 2011 For hospitals, going green can be a challenge. However, the health care industry has [...]
KMA Online: Stryker is Already on the Floor (translated from German)
KMA online: Reprocessing: Stryker is Already on the Floor; The European Union Decided in 2011 that Medical Devices May be Treated. Manufacturer Conditioners Deliver in [...]
FDA RELEASES SUMMARY AND PLAN OF ACTION FOR 510(K) REFORM
The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH or Center) has announced the availability of the Summary and Plan of [...]
STRYKER CORPORATION NAMED ONE OF FORTUNE MAGAZINE’S “100 BEST COMPANIES TO WORK FOR”
First time for Stryker in company history Ranked 68th out of 100; 9th for telecommuting Kalamazoo, Michigan – January 20, 2011 -- Stryker Corporation (NYSE:SYK) announced today [...]
WPTZ: Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Operating Rooms Go Green
WPTZ (Burlington) reports on Dartmouth Hitchcock's "Greening the Operating Room" initiative. Click here to see the brief video news segment. Leigh said that the hospital [...]
N.H Hospital Aims to Reduce Operating Room Waste
Seacoastonline.com reports on Dartmouth-Hitchcock's efforts to reduce medical waste by joining Practice Greenhealth (01/11/2011): Practice Greenhealth estimates that operating rooms produce 20 to 30 percent [...]
NECN.com, NH Hospital Joins Project to Reduce OR Waste
NECN.com reports that Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, has joined the "Greening the Operating Room" initiative organized by Practice Greenhealth. In, NH Hospital [...]
AMDR welcomes Chase Matson to the Team
It is with great pleasure that AMDR welcomes Chase Matson as the newest addition to the team. Chase will focus on AMDR’s domestic lobbying, outreach, public relations/advocacy and administrative [...]
Hospitals and Health Networks, Reprocessed Medical Devices Getting a Second Look; Besides protecting the environment, hospitals see a boost to the bottom line
Hospitals and Health Networks, Reprocessed Medical Devices Getting a Second Look; Besides protecting the environment, hospitals see a boost to the bottom line (December 2010): [...]