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
Giving to HCWH
The Benefits of Giving
The benefits of supporting Health Care Without Harm are many — knowing your gift is helping to make hospitals the healing environments we all expect them to be, joining a community of other generous supporters and staying current on the significant changes happening in health care through publications and special events.
Your Gift at Work
As investors and advocates for hospitals to become high performance healing environments for you, your family and friends, a gift will:
- Help hospitals phase out medical devices that contain toxic chemicals, such as polyvinyl chloride, and replace them with safer, cost competitive and FDA approved equipment.
- Move hospitals toward utilizing "green energy" which, coupled with efficient designs, will conserve energy, reduce costs, impact the environment and create green jobs.
- Assist hospitals undertaking renovations, retrofits and new construction in building "green" facilities.
- Encourage hospitals to find pragmatic solutions that will enhance patient and workplace safety.
- Assist hospitals in moving toward offering organic and healthier food that will benefit their patients, staff and visitors as well as influencing how food is produced and distributed.
We hope you will help to support our work!
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)
(all in pdf format)
