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 2021, we’ve saved nearly $4 million through our single-use device reprocessing program, including over $1.1 million in savings in fiscal year 2024. Between 2018 and 2024, the program helped divert around 59 tons of waste from landfills. In just the past year, collections of single-use devices increased by 7%. On top of that, through our partnership with Stryker’s Sustainability Solutions "Products for the Planet" initiative, we’ve contributed to restoring national forests by planting more than 230 trees since 2021.
- In 2018, the medical center developed sustainable procurement guidelines and integrated sustainability criteria into the request for proposal (RFP) scoring matrix.