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• Another NH hospital lays off workers; Hospital under HIPAA investigation;
  > Following other hospitals in the state taking the same course of action, Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in New Hampshire yesterday announced 37 job cuts and reduced hours for nine employees, reports Foster's Daily Democrat. Article > About three-quarters of Americans who lost their jobs and health insurance are skipping healthcare, including not filling prescriptions, a new Commonwealth Fund study finds, reports UPI. Article > Regional Medical Center in Alabama is under investigatio […]
• Practice Greenhealth Releases Greening the OR™ Guidance Documents
  Offers practical resources for reducing the OR’s environmental footprint RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Practice Greenhealth, the nation’s leading membership and networking organization for institutions in healthcare that have made a commitment to sustainable, eco-friendly practices, has released the first of a series of Greening the OR™ Best Practices Guidance Documents, now available on-line at: www.greeningtheor.org. The Greening the OR™ Initiative was launched in May of 2010 in an effort to […]
• Going green could cut hospital costs
  Despite assumptions to the contrary, reducing your operating rooms' carbon footprint doesn't have to cost your facility more. In an article in the February issue of the Archives of Surgery, a Johns Hopkins team contends that going greener could help hospitals reduce waste and costs.Nearly 70 percent of hospital waste is generated by operating rooms and labor-and-delivery suites. At least some of the waste relates to choices made. That's why overhead lights in operating rooms often […]
• HDR Will Sponsor National Effort to Green Operating Rooms
  RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- HDR Architecture, Inc., a leading international architecture, engineering, interior design and planning firm, has joined the group of corporate sponsors of Practice Greenhealth’s Greening the Operating RoomTM Initiative. Launched in 2010, this sweeping and prescriptive path to green the nation’s operating rooms, and to reduce the environmental footprint of the operating suites in hospitals across the country, which can produce between 20 and 30 percent of a hospita […]
• MedSharps® Wins Environmental Management Services Contract for Two Veterans Affairs Health Care Systems
  Local, veteran-owned company will serve 15 facilities throughout the South Texas and Valley Coastal Bend Veterans Health Care Systems SCHERTZ, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- MedSharps®, a division of Schertz-based Marshall Shredding Company, now provides environmental management services for the South Texas Veterans Health Care System and Valley Coastal Bend Health Care System Facilities. Medsharps is a Service Connected Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), and will conduct regulated medica […]