Hospitals purchase an enormous amount of goods and services, which presents an opportunity to make sustainable purchasing decisions that positively impact our community and the environment.
- Since 2011, we have diverted nearly 130 tons of single-use devices from the landfills through a reprocessed medical device program and saved $10 million.
- In 2018, the medical center developed sustainable procurement guidelines and integrated sustainability criteria into the request for proposal (RFP) scoring matrix.