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CleanMed conference on healthcare and sustainability

2012-09-29 by Alexey Archakov

26-28 September 2012 Healthcare without Harm organized CleanMed – creating healing environments – conference on sustainable healthcare. The conference gathered healthcare providers, sustainability organizations, and medical and building material suppliers to discuss and share successful initiatives from many different perspectives. The topics included diverse presentations from wastewater management to how to communicate internally to engage and get buy-in for sustainability efforts in the organization.

Sustainability

Sustainability is really at least a threefold concept encompassing both financial and social perspectives as well as the more obvious environmental angle. The conference brought out many excellent examples of projects that have had – and will continue to have – positive influences on the carbon footprint of healthcare activities. From innovative procurement to recycling and energy-saving infrastructure of buildings.

Unfortunately, the social sustainability aspects were highlighted to a lesser degree than the environmental and financial aspects. This is a shame as work environments that are in tune with our human senses, for instance, sound environments, add to the comfort of the staff and patients, which in its turn could mean staff retention, patient satisfaction, and healing – factors that also influence carbon usage and finance.

The conference will also take place in Boston and Oxford in 2013 – hopefully, the social sustainability efforts and impact will be more in focus at these events!

For more information go to the CleanMed website here

Filed Under: Healthcare Tagged With: conference, healing environments, research, Sustainability

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