Launch of Healthier Hospitals Initiative

Baltimore, MD — (Baltimore, MD) Six leading health care systems announced today that they have formed the Healthier Hospitals Initiative to help speed the health care sector toward environmental sustainability. The six systems—Advocate Health Care; Catholic Healthcare West; Hospital Corporation of America (HCA, Inc.); Kaiser Permanente; MedStar Health; and Partners Healthcare, introduced the Healthier Hospitals Agenda, a document that outlines specific activities that hospitals can take to reduce their environmental footprint and improve health outcomes. The overall goal of this national initiative is to use a coordinated approach to achieve sustainability throughout the health care sector, which will prevent environment-related illness, create extraordinary environmental benefits, and save billions of dollars in health care expenses.

Please read the rest of this announcement and additional details and information, includng the HHI Hospital Pledge, at www.healthierhospitals.org

Heath Care without Harm, an international coalition of more than 500 organizations in 53 countries, is working to transform the health care sector, without compromising patient safety or care, so that it is ecologically sustainable and no longer a source of harm to public health and the environment. To learn more about HCWH's work, visit our website at www.noharm.org, our YouTube channel at HCwithoutharm, and our twitter feed at hcwithoutharm.