The story of the Sambhavna Clinic, a non-profit holistic health clinic in Bhopal, India, built to treat those injured by the Union Carbide toxic gas release in 1984. enlarge video
Events
Here are some of the upcoming events that focus on issues addressed by HCWH. For more information, visit each event's website, and be sure to visit our work group issue pages (detailed on the left navigation bar).
CleanMed
Don't miss CleanMed, the premier environmental conference for leaders in the health care sector. The conference attracts key decision makers from across the health care supply chain, including health care providers, hospital CEOs, product vendors and manufacturers, major health care systems and the top Group Purchasing Organizations. The next CleanMed conference will take place from May 11 to 13, 2010 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland. More details will follow. Meanwhile, to read about the most recent CleanMed, held May 18 to 20, 2009 in Chicago, visit the CleanMed website.
Key Resources
- Energy Impact Calculator
What are your facility's energy health impacts and costs? What can you do to improve them?
- Learn about Practice Greenhealth and the Healthcare Clean Energy Exchange
- Green Guide for Health Care Report:
A Prescriptive Path to Energy Efficiency for Hospitals
download report (pdf) read abstract (pdf) - Healthcare Energy Project Guidebook, designed to provide decision makers with knowledge about improving energy efficiency (pdf)
