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The policy brief highlights how health care facilities can significantly reduce their environmental footprint through green procurement, energy-efficient infrastructure, waste reduction, and workforce ...
At a glance, the transformation might seem modest: a cleaner, more conscious of disinfection routines, a nurse adhering to ...
In an innovative move to tackle Liberia's growing waste management challenges, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in partnership with the Monrovia City Corporation (MCC), the Liberia Marketing ...
Human remains are at the center of tangled litigation involving a major regional health care system and the company contracted to dispose of its medical waste in North Dakota. Monarch Waste ...
TerraCycle, a Trenton, New Jersey-based sustainability solutions provider, has introduced ClinicCycle, a national recycling solution designed for health care facilities. The program offers a way to ...
If a healthcare provider is able to refrigerate its medical waste but stores it longer than 30 days, it also is considered a Storage Facility.
The startup Greyparrot uses AI-powered imaging to find misplaced recyclables and enhance data in waste-management facilities.
Healthcare waste management (HCWM) has become a major challenge as the population size increases and healthcare facilities expand.
Biosafety Training BIO301L: Medical Waste Management for Labs Who should complete this course? If you are responsible for generating, handling, or signing for the removal of medical waste at UAB, it ...
On February 3rd, the Health Affairs Council on Health Care Spending and Value released its report, "A Road Map for Action." Here, we our Council recommendations on administrative spending and waste.
Defining Administrative Spending And Waste Administrative costs in health care have been observed in a variety of ways in the literature.
Research points to clinical waste as a critical driver of excess health spending in the US, accounting for 5.4–15.7 percent of national health spending.