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Sustainable
Hospitals
The Sustainable Hospitals Project (SHP)
provides technical support to the healthcare industry for
selecting products and work practices that eliminate or reduce
occupational and environmental hazards, maintain quality patient
care, and contain costs.
Center for Environmental Health: Welcome
- Welcome to the California Sustainable
Hospitals Forum presentation download page.
Cleaner Production in Health Care - Unlike industrial
operations that typically have a few large volume waste streams,
hospitals generate different volumes of a wide variety of wastes
and emissions. (Australia)
Health Care Without Harm - Green Purchasing
- Setting
specific goals can help health care facilities in their efforts
to purchase more environmentally responsible products.
Hospitals for
a Healthy Environment Web site - is a private-public partnership
sponsored by the American Hospital Association (AHA), American
Nurses Association, Health Care Without Harm, and
U.S.Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Lowell Center for Sustainable Production
- Sustainable Hospitals
Project. Sustainable Production and Consumption Program.
Persistent Bioaccumulative and Toxic (PBT) Chemical
Program -
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Protecting the Planet, Hospitals clean up their act - By Megan
Flaherty. Illustration by Malcolm Garris/PhotoDisc. January 21,
1999
Sustainable Environment - Sustainable Healthcare Provision
- Century. Louise Dineley explains how East
Kent Hospitals NHS Trust is taking up the challenge in developing
a sustainable Trust in more ways than one!
Sustainable Hospitals
- The Sustainable Hospitals Project
provides health care personnel with tools, training and technical
support to improve the environmental practices of hospitals.
UK Sustainable Development Commission
- Health and sustainable development are closely connected. At a
macro-economic level, ill health costs to the UK economy are
significant, in terms of treatment costs, sick leave from work and
loss of productivity.
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