CleanMed is an annual global conference on environmentally sustainable health care. CleanMed 2008 will be held at the Pittsburgh Hilton in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from May 20 to 22. This blog will serve as a place for conference participants and others interested in the issues to share information and enrich the conference experience, before, during and after the conference. More information can be found on the CleanMed website.
CleanMed Attendees
CleanMed participants typically include health care leaders, product vendors, purchasing directors, food service directors, health care providers and other health care decision-makers, who come together annually to discuss the latest trends in:
- Nutritious, Sustainable Foods and Food Systems
- Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
- Energy Efficiency
- Green Building
- Safer Materials and Healthy Chemical Policies
- Green Electronics
- Environmentally Preferable Medical Waste Treatment and Disposal
- Waste Reduction and Recycling
CleanMed Mission
Our mission is to accelerate the development, use, and diffusion of environmentally preferable products and practices, and the construction of green buildings in health care by disseminating examples of best practices and convening health care professionals, university researchers, designers of professional buildings, and vendors of cleaner and safer products and services.
CleanMed Goals
- To provide examples of best practices in environmentally preferable purchasing from the U.S., Canada, and Europe.
- To address environmentally sustainable design practices and construction materials in healthcare.
- To discuss and evaluate initiatives to incorporate environmentally preferable purchasing in health care and group purchasing organizations.
- To showcase environmentally preferable and occupationally safer products and practices.
- To evaluate alternatives to medical waste incineration.
