HPN: Sorting out the savings in waste management
Christine-Marie Eno, Director of Materials Management at Catholic Medical Center, NH, said they continually [...]
How Hospitals Are Stepping Up to the Challenge of Climate Change
Healthcare organizations are in the business of supporting human health. Yet the irony [...]
Engaged Leadership Challenge
As a data-driven organization, we decided that we needed to measure our sustainability [...]
2013 Milestone Report Shows Hospitals Going Healthier
Launched in April 2012, HHI is a national campaign to promote a more [...]
What Comes In Must Go Out
Regulated medical waste (RMW) typically costs $0.20–$0.50 per pound and is six to [...]
"Reducing the landfill" with reprocessing program
Before the buyback program started 2 years ago, OR staff would throw the [...]
Hospital’s ‘Green Team’ cuts waste and expense
WHO officials say the answer to reducing such a heavy environmental footprint is [...]
Detoxing Healthcare: Hospitals Get Healthier
Are hospitals making tiny babies sick? That question troubled Kathy Gerwig, an executive [...]
Inova Launches Red-Bag Waste Reduction Initiative
Pizza boxes, flowers, wadded-up paper, latex-glove boxes—those were just some of the items [...]
Hospital Sustainability Spending on the Rise
[Please note: Reprocessing is NOT specifically mentioned in this story about hospital sustainability [...]