Future of Sustainability in Healthcare: GHSI

Future of Sustainability in Healthcare: GHSI
The Global Health and Safety Initiative
Pat Burdullis, Catholic Healthcare West
Kathy Gerwig, Kaiser Permanente
Robin Guenther, Perkins and Will
Bob McCoole, Ascension Health
Bob Eisenman, Global Health and Safety Initiative
Christina Ayers, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Bob Eisenman
New strategy to combine environmental and sustainability movement with hospital concern about patient safety.
The case for change
- Patient safety – [...]

Reducing the Use of Toxic and Untested Chemicals in Products

There’s Gotta Be A Better way:  Participatory Workshop on Reducing the Use of Toxic and Untested Chemicals in Products
Lara Sutherland, Practice Greenhealth
Participatory workshop where about 50 particpants are sitting in a large circle.  Everyone is given a colored piece of paper by role -
Yellow- procurement
Red – provider
Purple- advocacy group
Green – Supplier
True and false questions about [...]

Concurrent Panels

Panel discussions are underway focusing on these topics:
A1. Creating Healing Environments:  Case Studies
A2. Achieving Food Credits in the Green Guide for Healthcare Construction
A3. Climate Change 101:  The Law of Greenhouse Gases, Threats to Public Health, and Clinical Implications
A4. Electronics Purchasing, Management and Disposal:  An Overlooked Opportunity to Reduce Your Ecological Footprint
A5. Taking the “Toxic” Out [...]

Greening Health Care in Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has over a million members covered by health insurance, 2600 npatients per day, 8000 outpatients per day, 16 hospitals, 400 facilities, 5000 doctors and 48000 healthcare workers.
UPMC is the largest employer in the Pittsburgh area, so when they took a stand to promote a sustainable business model, it had [...]

Practice Greenhealth Awards Dinner

The dinner is underway, and for those of you at home who are wondering who the awardees are, here is the complete list of 2008 awardees.
The dinner started off with PGH Executive Director Bob Jarboe introducing the staff and dignitaries, and thanking event sponsor Hospira.  Jamie Harvey next told some interesting anecdotes about how we [...]

LEED for Healthcare Training – Green Buildings

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This thread will stay open before, during and after the session so that participants have a place where they can leave comments, feedback, follow-up questions, and additional resource [...]

GHSI website is live

The Global Health and Safety Initiative will be discussed on Thursday at the final CleanMed plenary at 3:00PM.  Many members of CleanMed have helped to launch GHSI, which is, according to their new website, “a sector-wide collaboration to transform the way that healthcare designs, builds and operates its facilities as well as the products healthcare [...]

Welcome to CleanMed!

To the many who have joined us before, you know that CleanMed is an annual global conference on environmentally sustainable health care. To those of you who are first-timers at CleanMed or who will be joining us online, welcome!
CleanMed 2008 will be held at the Pittsburgh Hilton in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from May 20 to 22. [...]