The story of the Sambhavna Clinic, a non-profit holistic health clinic in Bhopal, India, built to treat those injured by the Union Carbide toxic gas release in 1984. enlarge video
Get Involved
Join the Campaign
Membership in Health Care Without Harm is open to non-profit organizations and healthcare facilities and systems.
Organizations become members of the coalition by:
- Having a thorough discussion within their membership to make certain that they support the mission and goals of HCWH and want to actively participate in accomplishing them
- Getting approval from their board of directors or other governing body of the organization
- Sending a letter, on the organization's letterhead/stationery, that states the group's support for HCWH, its desire to participate fully in the work of the campaign, and provides contact information for a designated main contact person within the organization
For general questions about membership, contact Colleen Funkhouser at 703-243-0056.
Become a Luminary
The Luminary Project: Nurses Lighting the Way to Environmental Health is an effort to capture the illuminating stories of nurses' activities to improve human health by improving the health of the environment. Visit the Luminary Project website to share your story and read about the work of others.
Sign a Pledge
- Sign the Healthy Food in Health Care Pledge — More than 220 health care facilities have signed. Find out more (pdf)
- Sign the List of Health Care Leaders (pdf) that are Reducing Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) and Di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP). To add the name of your institution to this list of health care leaders promoting healthier purchasing choices, please contact info@hcwh.org
Webinar: How Sustainable Hospitals Are Achieving Major Savings
Health Care Without Harm and The Commonwealth Fund present a webinar based on the recent groundbreaking findings on how hospitals can achieve savings and reduce their carbon footprint through sustainability programs. This one-hour webinar draws on the findings of a recent Health Care Without Harm Research Collaborative/ Commonwealth Fund study, "Can Sustainable Hospitals Help Bend the Health Care Cost Curve?" which shows that savings from interventions to reduce energy use and waste, and achieve operating room supply efficiencies could exceed $5.4 billion over five years and $15 billion over 10 years for the health care sector. In addition to detailing the study findings, the webinar includes presentations from two health systems about why they chose to focus on sustainability and what challenges and rewards are in store.
Key Resources
- Energy Impact Calculator
What are your facility's energy health impacts and costs? What can you do to improve them?
- Learn about Practice Greenhealth and the Healthcare Clean Energy Exchange
- Green Guide for Health Care Report:
A Prescriptive Path to Energy Efficiency for Hospitals
download report (pdf) read abstract (pdf) - Healthcare Energy Project Guidebook, designed to provide decision makers with knowledge about improving energy efficiency (pdf)
