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LifeBridge Health has several success stories around sustainability and environmental excellence. Even better, we like to share our best practices in the hopes that other hospitals will follow suit in reducing waster and finding innovative energy solutions.
At the CleanMed 2010 conference, held this year at the Baltimore Convention Center, Sinai President Neil Meltzer shared some of our accomplishments.
"To us, sustainability means being a good neighbor," he told the audience at the Hospital Leadership Plenary Panel. The other members of the panel were Barbara Sattler, RN, Ph.D., a University of Maryland Nursing Professor and Director of the Environmental Health Education Center; Knox Singleton, President and CEO, Inova Health System, and Jeffrey Rivest, President and CEO, University of Maryland Medical Center.
"Our waste costs have declined by half while the area of our square feet has increased," Meltzer said. In 2007, the total area was 1,810,906 square feet and the waste costs were $1,269, 158. In 2010, the total area was 2,520,043 square feet while the waste costs were $666,000.
Additionally, by using energy efficient equipment, conserving energy and using alternative and renewable technology when cost-effective, LifeBridge Health saved $825,000 from fiscal year 2010 to fiscal year 2011.
LifeBridge Health Vice President of Capital Improvements and Facilities Peter Arn, along with LifeBridge Health Director of Facilities Lewis Poe and Reduction in Motion President Bill Griffith, will be speaking more about success in waste reduction and energy efficiency at a CleanMed session Thursday called "Cooperation Not Competition: Achieving Success Across LifeBridge Health."
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Sinai President Speaks at CleanMed Conference
LifeBridge Health has several success stories around sustainability and environmental excellence. Even better, we like to share our best practices in the hopes that other hospitals will follow suit in reducing waster and finding innovative energy solutions.
At the CleanMed 2010 conference, held this year at the Baltimore Convention Center, Sinai President Neil Meltzer shared some of our accomplishments.
"To us, sustainability means being a good neighbor," he told the audience at the Hospital Leadership Plenary Panel. The other members of the panel were Barbara Sattler, RN, Ph.D., a University of Maryland Nursing Professor and Director of the Environmental Health Education Center; Knox Singleton, President and CEO, Inova Health System, and Jeffrey Rivest, President and CEO, University of Maryland Medical Center.
"Our waste costs have declined by half while the area of our square feet has increased," Meltzer said. In 2007, the total area was 1,810,906 square feet and the waste costs were $1,269, 158. In 2010, the total area was 2,520,043 square feet while the waste costs were $666,000.
Additionally, by using energy efficient equipment, conserving energy and using alternative and renewable technology when cost-effective, LifeBridge Health saved $825,000 from fiscal year 2010 to fiscal year 2011.
LifeBridge Health Vice President of Capital Improvements and Facilities Peter Arn, along with LifeBridge Health Director of Facilities Lewis Poe and Reduction in Motion President Bill Griffith, will be speaking more about success in waste reduction and energy efficiency at a CleanMed session Thursday called "Cooperation Not Competition: Achieving Success Across LifeBridge Health."
- Lifebridge Health Honored As Environmental Trailblazer
LifeBridge Health was one of four hospitals to receive a Trailblazer Award from Maryland Hospitals for a Health Environment yesterday at the University of Maryland. MD H2E is a program that promotes sustainability in the state's health care sector....
- Led Replacement Project Reduces Waste
As part of the ongoing Freedom to be Green program, Sinai Hospital has replaced nearly all fluorescent lights in non-clinical areas with super energy-efficient LED lamps. The LED Replacement project makes sense both financially and environmentally. For...
- Lifebridge Health Wins Social Responsibility Award
LifeBridge Health has won the 2010 Communitas Award for Green Initiatives, under the category of Excellence in Corporate Social Responsibility. Communitas winners are recognized for specific programs involving volunteerism, philanthropy or ethical, sustainable...
- Lifebridge Health Celebrates Earth Day
Happy Earth Day everyone! To commemorate the occasion, I thought I'd share a recent Bridge employee newsletter story about LifeBridge Health's efforts to go green: ?It's not easy being green,? sang Kermit the Frog. But then again, the popular...
- Lifebridge Health Wins Green Policy Award
Breaking news to report today! LifeBridge Health has won the first Green Policy category award at the Baltimore Business Journal's inaugural Green Business awards luncheon. The Green Awards recognize the greenest Baltimore businesses in seven different...