Sustainability Goes Global

Building a Global Movement

Seema WadhwaDirector, Healthier Hospitals Initiative

Director of Sustainability, Inova Health System

Healthy People on a Healthy Planet

The Ten Challenges

Leadership Chemicals Waste Energy Water

Transportation Food Pharmaceuticals Buildings Purchasing

www.greenhospitals.net

Organizational and System Members Australian Healthcare & Hospitals Association Chinese Hospital Association, Architectural Research Branch Department of Health, Thailand (GREEN and CLEAN

Hospitals Program) FHI360 (Global) Health Promoting Hospitals Network, Environment Task

Force (Global) Healthier Hospital Initiative (US) Indonesia Hospital Association (Indonesia) National Health Service Sustainability Unit (UK) Synergie Santé Environnement (Canada)

Global Spread

A Connected WorldDecline in Medical WasteIncinerators in the U.S.

A Collective ImpactGlobal Reduction of Mercury

5,000 U.S. health care facilities have pledged to go mercury-free; all

major pharmacy chains stop selling mercury

thermometers

2013 - HCWH and WHO with global partnership

win global ban on mercury-containing medical products

2014 – HCWH publishes summary of 15 year campaign in

SSIR“Lessons in Forging Global

Change”

A Collective Power

Redefining Community Benefit

“Your support to providing healthy fruits and vegetables to underserved communities is instrumental in addressing future health issues.”

Edward AvalosUSDA Under Secretary

Employee EngagementGrowth

The Future of HealthSafety Physician Engagement

Process Improvement

Quality

Patient ExperienceCost

Community

Sustainability

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If you would like to go fast, go alone.

If you would like to go far,go together.

-African Proverb

Are YOU up for the challenge?THANK YOU!

Courtesy of Cleveland Clinic Office of Sustainability

Donald Berwick

Jeff Thompson

Blair Sadler

Seema Wadhwa

Robin Guenther