Reminder: Upcoming Webinar on How Sustainable Hospitals Are Achieving Major Savings
<p>Join a webinar about how hospitals can reap savings and reduce their carbon footprint through sustainability programs to reduce energy use and waste, achieve operating room supply efficiencies, and more. The webinar will draw on the findings of a recent Commonwealth Fund study, <em>Can Sustainable Hospitals Help Bend the Health Care Cost Curve?,</em> by Susan Kaplan, J.D., and colleagues, which shows that savings from such interventions could exceed $5.4 billion over five years and $15 billion over 10 years. </p><p>Join this free, <a href="https://cc.readytalk.com/r/tmjeopzez75e">one-hour webinar</a> to learn more about the study and hear from two health systems about why they chose to focus on sustainability and what challenges and rewards are in store. <br />
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<strong>What:</strong> How Sustainable Hospitals Are Achieving Major Savings, a webinar cosponsored by The Commonwealth Fund and Health Care Without Harm <br />
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<strong>Who:</strong> Susan Kaplan, J.D., research assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health; Sister Susan Vickers, R.S.M., vice president of Community Health, Dignity Health, a health care delivery system with facilities in California, Arizona, and Nevada; and J. Knox Singleton, CEO of Inova Health System in Northern Virginia. Anne-Marie J. Audet, M.D., M.Sc., vice president for Health Care Quality and Efficiency at The Commonwealth Fund, will moderate. <br />
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<strong>When:</strong> December 4, at 1 p.m., E.T. <br />
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<strong>To register, go to: </strong><a href="https://cc.readytalk.com/r/tmjeopzez75e"><strong>https://cc.readytalk.c…; <br />
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