Sustainability in Health Care

 

Healthcare is facing unprecedented focus with federal initiatives that promise to revolutionize care and reduce waste.  At the same time, interest around energy and climate solutions is growing. 

How do we build an industry that can be sustainable, and what solutions are leading organizations using to raise care levels while reducing costs across operations, facilities, and more?

Sustainability in health care stems from the underlying change in healthcare provision and management, and illustrates innovative approaches to manage costs, improve patient outcomes, retain staff, and manage healthcare's environmental impact and across the lifecycle of healthcare.

 


 

Current News/Events Related to Sustainability in WA State

  1. Washington State Society Healthcare Engineers

"The Health Care Gauntlet: Reducing Cost While Improving Care" , Yakima, WA

October 13-16, 2009

  Agenda [rev. 9/1]         Conference Registration Form  [rev. 8/26]



  1. Real Sustainability in Healthcare Summit

November 4th, 2009  9:00am - 4:30pm

Evergreen Hospital | Kirkland, WA

Real Sustainability in Healthcare is a series of best practice executive summits produced by NextGen Today hosted by a leading healthcare organization in the region. The Inaugural event is being kicked-off by Steve Brown, CEO at Evergreen Hospital.

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