Real Sustainability in Health Care Summit

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

This two-part event focuses on larger themes in healthcare for hospitals, free-standing clinics and adult care facilities. How do we build an industry that can be sustainable, and what solutions are leading organizations using to raise care levels while reducing costs across operations, facilities, and more?

The interactive, roundtable format allows participants to explore innovative approaches, case examples and ideas for healthcare that are eliminating waste, improving patient outcomes, lowering environmental impact, increasing operating efficiencies, creating more sound assets, and more. Green Teams will get the opportunity to share their experiences and learn new approaches to the technical, social, and business challenges that sustainability initiatives must address to be successful.

7:00 – 7:30	Registration & Check-In
7:30 – 8:00	Welcome Comments and Breakfast
8:00 – 9:30	The Future of Healthcare Roundtable Discussion *Discussion Moderator, P.S. Reilly, President NextGen Today* This breakfast program will focus on the overall economic, social and environmental sustainability of the healthcare industry. We'll cover policy, funding, chronic disease trends, changing demographics, and create discussion opportunities for health care organization to share strategies they are pursuing to alleviate some of the pressures and ensure long-term viability.
9:30 – 10:00	*Introductions and Networking*
10:00 – 10:45	Measuring the Healthcare Footprint *Discussion Kick-Off by P.S. Reilly, NextGen Today* The healthcare industry as a whole has been assessed recently as being responsible for about 8% of the carbon footprint . Now pending legislation will require individual institutions to assess and report on their own carbon footprint. Learn what this might mean, how to address it, and where you can tie these assessments into your overall sustainability and performance outcome initiatives.
10:45 – 11:45	Sustainable Building Advances and the Cost/Benefit of Green *Discussion Kick-Off by Doug Strout, KMD Architects* What can we learn from advanced approaches to healthcare buildings around the world? Explore where advances in building design and redesign are helping to increase environmental soundness and improve patient outcomes.
11:45 – 12:15	Lunch Networking
12:15 – 1:00	Reduce--Energy Conservation Opportunities Healthcare organizations are some of the largest consumers of energy across North America. At the same time, costs of energy, water, and other resources are growing significantly over the next decade. Learn basic to advanced ways to reduce consumption that hospitals across our region are pursuing to reduce their utility costs and manage their environmental impact.
1:00 – 2:45	Reuse & Recycling—The Value of Reprocessing in your Supply Chains *Discussion Kick-Off by Tony Patton, Ascent Healthcare Solutions* *and Gerald Woodard, SRI Surgical* Hospital operations kick up a significant amount of opportunities for recycling--from e-waste to blue wrap recycling, from plastic programs to linens. An underleveraged area is the reprocessing of single use devices. Strong programs have reduced environmental impact and significantly brought down waste costs in parallel. Learn more about the keys to getting the most from these programs for your organization.
2:45 – 3:00	Networking Break
3:00 – 3:45	Managing Healthcare Waste Streams *Discussion Kick-Off by Greg Masson and Joe Starinchak, US Fish and Wildlife* Health care waste is a real challenge for our industry. Explore the challenges and impacts from pharmaceutical waste streams, and emerging programs being explored across the U.S. to manage pharmaceutical waste in healthcare environments and the community.
3:45 – 4:15	Effectively Managing your Green Initiatives At the end of the day, green programs are only as effective as their adoption. Share with other executives tools and techniques for how to successfully get employee, administrative and executive buy-in to your green education programs.
4:15 – 4:30	Closing Comments & Next Steps