Reports and Case Studies
Green Guide for Healthcare
Green Guide for Healthcare: A best practices guide for healthy and sustainable building design, construction, and operations for the healthcare industry. The Green Guide for Health Care™, is the healthcare sector’s first quantifiable sustainable design toolkit integrating enhanced environmental and health principles and practices into the planning, design, construction, operations and maintenance of their facilities. This Guide provides the healthcare sector with a voluntary, self-certifying metric toolkit of best practices that designers, owners, and operators can use to guide and evaluate their progress towards high performance healing environments. Download it for free at www.gghc.org.
Case Study: Northwest Hospitals for a Healthy Environment Pilot: Innovation in Plastics Recycling
Learn about an innovative pilot program that has created a new recycling infrastructure for rural hospitals. Read more.
Going Green : A Resource Kit for Pollution Prevention in Health Care
The Center, in collaboration with Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (OAHHS), distributed HCWH ‘s Going Green : A Resource Kit for Pollution Prevention in Health Care to all Oregon hospitals. The kit is also available on-line at http://www.noharm.org/goingGreen
Roundtables
Oregon Health Care Without Harm Roundtables
OCEH hosts frequent Health Care Without Harm Roundtables on topics of interest to local healthcare systems. Topics have included: electronics management (recycling, reuse and purchasing), PVC use in medical devises and building materials, mercury reduction, and red bag waste reduction. At these events participants are provided with current information, tools and contacts for implementing sustainability initiatives at their facilities. Also, Roundtables serve to incubate collaborative projects among area hospitals and provide valuable opportunities to celebrate successes and learn from peer efforts.
Call the Center at 503-233-1510 for more information on future Roundtables!
Past Roundtables - Click on link for Agendas and Presentations
Email List-Serve
The Center is managing the Oregon Health Care Without Harm email list-serve. Currently, there are over 100 professionals representing healthcare, government and public-interest groups. The email list is used to post the latest information on pollution prevention, and is also used by the members to post questions on hospital waste minimization. To join the list serve send an email to list@oregon-health.org
Thermometer Exchanges
Over 15,000 mercury thermometers have been exchanged for digital thermometers at community collections throughout Oregon and Southwest Washington. For more information on organizing exchanges, contact OCEH or browse HCWH’s How to Plan and Put On a Mercury Thermometer Exchange
Looking for colleagues in your organization to work with on HCWH and H2E?
Participants in the campaign efforts include: all major hospitals in the state, Southwest Washington Medical Center Oregon Nurses Association, Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, and the City of Portland, Bureau of Environmental Services. Call 503-233-1510 for more information.
Links
Pollution Prevention in Healthcare
Mercury
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