Source: Health Facilities Magazine

For the past decade, Cleveland Clinic (*) has embarked on a systemwide sustainability drive that could make some health systems green with benign envy.

The effort has encompassed energy and water-reducing strategies, energy-efficient facility design, environmentally friendly purchasing and an aggressive recycling effort. And everyone from the top down pitches in — it’s all part of the culture at Cleveland Clinic.

Written by: Luqman Yesufu, GGHH Campaign Manager, Membership Outreach and Engagement in South Africa, groundWork

groundWork, HCWH’s strategic partner in South Africa, together with the Gauteng Directorate of Health Care Waste and Occupational Hygiene Risk Management, hosted the “2017 GGHH Waste Exchange” on 23-24 October 2017 for South African members. 25 delegates from four provinces in the country – Gauteng, Free State, Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal- attended the event.

Counties Manukau Health (CM Health), a GGHH member in New Zealand, is proud to announce that two of their health care facilities, Middlemore Hospital and Manukau SuperClinic, have achieved a 21% reduction of absolute carbon surpassing their target of a 20% reduction of their greenhouse gas emissions.