Examine RCRA and its applicability in healthcare.
Analyze how other regulations and agencies interact with RCRA including: the DOT, OSHA, DEA, and the Joint Commission.
Discuss how to work with environmental regulators rather than against to establish best practice waste management programs.
Apply the principles of environmentally responsible healthcare in their own organizations or healthcare facilities.
Discuss the importance of clean air and water to improve health.
Examine global human rights and learn to apply its practices through advocacy and decisions they make on a daily basis.
Appraise the historical development of the environmental nutrition concept as it relates to the standard understanding and concept of human nutrition
Discuss trends in the industrialization of the food system and resulting degradation of public health and the ecosystem functions on which food production and human health depend.
Identify the role the health care sector can play in harnessing expertise and purchasing power to put an environmental nutrition approach into action and to make food a fundamental part of prevention-based health care and to help build a more sustainable food system.
Debate how critical the green building mission is to the future of human health.
Demonstrate the overall cost savings in green design through sustainable initiatives that will improve the bottom line
Discuss new objectives that define green and distinguish the various components of green building and how it affects patient outcomes.
Review how the industry can stake a leadership position in community engagement and advocacy around climate and public health.
Identify claims that exposures to pollution and other environmental risks are unequally distributed by race and class
Propose a public health approach to climate change, based on the essential public health services, that extends to both clinical and population health services and emphasizes the coordination of government agencies (federal, state, and local), academia, the private sector, and nongovernmental organizations.
Apply best practices for implementing the Safer Chemicals Challenges of the Healthier Hospitals Initiative, including the necessary steps for submitting data to demonstrate compliance.
Identify rationale for targeting specific chemicals and materials for reduction in health care setting.
Develop and discuss strategies for engaging patients, members and communities on climate change resiliency and preparedness
Define the spectrum of sustainability from doing less harm (conservation & efficiency in current industry practice) to doing no harm (net-zero or carbon neutral) to doing better (net-positive, regenerative, or restorative).
Examine real-life applicable and repeatable strategies regarding safer chemicals and healthier food solutions from actual HHI case studies.
Illustrate how the audience should create a culture of wellness in their organization or design projects through the HHI challenge to engage leadership.
Discuss the misuse of medically important antibiotics in agriculture - why abx?
Compare the link between the overuse of antibiotics in agriculture and the increase of antibiotic resistance
Discuss the impact of increasing antibiotic resistance on human health
Identify the heterogeneity of the origins of asthma and the subset known as occupational asthma.
Assess the difference between asthmagens that cause the onset of asthma and asthma triggers that cause exacerbations in people with the disorder.
Describe types of exposures in health care that can cause the onset of asthma.
Examine ways of reducing their facilities carbon footprint and identify steps to form an office Green Team.
Analyze the Commonwealth Fund to provide tools to implement a sustainability policy.
Develop sustainable practices that benefit the environment, patients and the bottom line.
Recognize the importance of gaining physician support for a successful reprocessing program
Analyze data on performance of reprocessed vs. OEM devices using OhioHealth System's mode
Interpret the financial savings achieved using reprocessed devices through a systems driven approach
Analyze the feasibility of implementing energy conservation, reduced waste and more efficient purchasing.
Describe how the environment and human health interact at different levels.
Develop and apply a sustainability strategy
Discuss how healthcare communities can bring leaders together to improve patient outcomes.
Identify the physiological and emotional benefits of biophilic design on human health and wellness.
Discuss the recent relevant research related to biophilic design
Explain the process for incorporating biophilia into existing and new settings.
Implement sustainability practices in their organization that result in better patient-outcomes.
What questions have arisen in your practice for which you need answers/strategies that you can implement?
Are you interested in basic, intermediate or advanced level trainings?
What barriers might you have that would interfere with implementation of new information learned from this training?
How can this training (the overall meeting) be improved to better impact competence, performance and/or patient/client outcomes?
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