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Contact: Kathy Pryor 206-714-0813
FoodMed Conference Calls for Presentation Proposals
Reston, VA — FoodMed, the nation’s premier conference on Healthy Food in Health Care, invites proposals for presentations to be delivered during the FoodMed 2011conference, October 18-19 in Seattle, Washington. Join with other health care organizations who are demonstrating a commitment to "first, do no harm"—treating food and its production as preventive medicine that protects the health of patients, staff, communities, the environment and the bottom line.
Suggested Presentation Topics:
- Pricing strategies to promote healthier cafeteria choices
- Sustainable food procurement: Putting plans into action
- Sustainable purchasing policies
- Healthy vending machines
- Pesticide use and public health
- Antibiotic use and public health
- How to talk to your GPO
- Buying local food
- Creating seasonal menus
- And many more...
More than 200 participants from health care leadership and management, chefs, dietitians, group purchasing organization (GPO) executives, food distributors, and health care professionals from diverse disciplines of the health care sector are expected to attend.
Proposals will be reviewed only if they are received by 11:59 p.m. EST on May 27, include all required information, and are strictly educational in nature. Selection will be based on innovation, speaker qualifications, topic relevance, objectivity, balance, and practicality. Final selections will be based on the best possible mix of topics and competencies for the various constituencies that will be attending the conference.
Please view the entire Call for Proposals before submitting.
Contact Kathy Pryor (kathy@wpsr.org; 206-714-0813) with questions.
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.
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)
