Our sister network in the United States, the Healthier Hospitals Initiative (HHI) and its eleven sponsoring health systems announced a set of  challenges for hospitals nationwide aimed at reducing the U.S. healthcare sector’s environmental footprint.  More than 500 leading hospitals across the United States have joined the HHI, a partnership coordinated by Health Care Without Harm, Practice Greenhealth,and the Center for Health Design.

The prestigious British Medical Journal featured the Global Green and Healthy Hospital Agenda in a recent article on the Greening of Medicine, noting that it is “being well received by health authorities around the world.”