Environmental Sustainability in the World of Health Care

Published: June 5, 2023, noon

b'There is growing awareness in the health care field that becoming a better steward of the environment is something well within the capabilities of most health caregivers. In fact, it benefits the overall mission in ways we often don\\u2019t think about. One environmental officer whose health care organization has been paying close attention to environmental sustainability and reducing its carbon footprint since the 1990s frames it this way: \\u201cIt\\u2019s part of our work, not additional work.\\u201d'