Green Hospitals and Healthcare

Class Description

Green Hospitals and Healthcare: Today, most industries in the United States are finding new ways of becoming more environmentally sustainable as a way of cutting costs and/or in fulfilling their corporate citizenship missions. Although hospitals and other healthcare organizations are conscious of these efforts, they face the unique challenge of round-the-clock operations, hazardous waste management, large- scale staffing and extreme energy consumption.

With this webinar, you will gain insight and tactics to:

• Making the business case for going green in terms of the bottom line / financials  and long-term ROI, staff satisfaction and increased customer base
• How other hospitals have developed their green efforts and how they leveraged partnerships with outside organizations to put a sustainability plan in action
• How going green and becoming more sustainable is part of the larger mission of healthcare and healing environments and how it is related to your community relations mission

Facilitators:
Hermine Levey Weston, RN, MBA, Facility Engagement Practice Manager, Greenhealth
Russell A. Sedmak, VP, & Director of Heery International, Denver
Rick Beckler, Director of Environment, Hospital Sisters Health System

Organizations:
Central Illinois Chapter of ACHE
Greenhealth
Heery International
Hospital Sisters Health System

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As an independent chartered Chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives Central Illinois Chapter of ACHE is authorized to award 1.5 hours of Qualified Continuing Education Credit toward advancement or recertification in the American College of Healthcare Executives.  Participants in this program who wish to have it considered for Qualified Education (non-ACHE) credit should list their attendance when they apply to the American College of Healthcare Executives for advancement or recertification.