What We Do

The healthcare industry is a source of both healing and harm. Hospitals are home to a number of toxic chemicals that have adverse effects on patient and staff health and safety.

Center for Environmental Health works to support and strengthen hospitals in their efforts to be protectors of public health. As a leading member of Health Care Without Harm, a broad-based international campaign to address the environmental impacts of health care without compromising worker safety or patient care, we support the following goals:

• Promoting comprehensive pollution prevention practices.
• Supporting the development and use of environmentally safe materials, technology and products.
• Educating and informing health care institutions, providers, workers, consumers, and all affected constituencies about the environmental and public health impacts of the health care industry and solutions to its problems.

Contact Sue Chiang, Pollution Prevention Program Director, 510.655.3900 x311, sue[at]cehca.org or Judy Levin, Pollution Prevention Program Coordinator, 510.655.3900 x316, judy[at]cehca.org with any questions.

Upcoming CleanMed Conference

CleanMed, the global conference on environmentally sustainable health care, attracts a diverse mix of over 700 health care leaders, materials/purchasing managers, Environmental Health & Safety staff, nurses and providers, architects, designers, and medical and building product vendors from across the United States - to a program that inspires and activates environmentally preferable advances in health care. This year, the conference will be held in Baltimore, Maryland from May 11-13, 2010. For more information, please go to: http://www.cleanmed.org.

Recent San Francisco Bay Area Hospital Roundtable

THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF TRACKING YOUR HOSPITAL'S WASTE STREAM

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

9:00 am - 12:15 pm (8:30am - informal networking, coffee/tea). Please plan to arrive a few minutes early to get through security.

Environmental Protection Agency (75 Hawthorne St. San Francisco, CA). Marianas-Palau Room - see http://www.epa.gov/region09/visitor.html for directions and parking information. BART Accessible: Montgomery St. Station

Please click here for additional information.

Past Webinars

CEH's most recent webinar, entitled "Promoting Safer Flame Retardants in Health Care," was held on December 10, 2008. Click here to read more about the webinar.