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The availability of environmental services staff for cleaning environmental surfaces in patient rooms has declined over the past decade. Chemical manufacturers of cleaning products took note of this trend and in an effort to assist the cleaning process, combined cleaners and disinfectants into one application.

Written by: Catharine Paddock, PhD
February 23,  2010
According to a new study, sepsis and pneumonia, two common conditions caused by hospital-acquired infections like MRSA, killed 48,000 Americans in 2006, and cost the nation over 8 billion dollars to treat.
A report on what has been described as the largest nationally representative study to [...]

In an editorial published in the September-October 1945 issue of The Sanitarian, Roscoe Davis, Sanitary Inspector with the California State Department of Public Health, proclaimed that June 15, 1945 was a “RED LETTER DAY” for Sanitarians in California.1 For at 3:00 p.m. on that date Governor Earl Warren signed into law Senate Bill 319 which provided for the registration of existing sanitarians and the future examination and registration of sanitarians employed full time in State and local departments of health of the State of California. During the bill signing Governor Warren stated that he was proud to sign such progressive legislation for public health

SACRAMENTO, Calif., February 24, 2010 – Sutter Health’s ongoing effort to deliver the highest levels of health care quality and access at a fair price was recognized in SDI’s 2010 survey ranking the top 100 most integrated health care networks. The not-for-profit Sutter Health network, ranked 38th nationally and second [...]

By Shawn Rhea
Posted: January 12, 2009
In another move to expand its green healthcare effort, Catholic Healthcare West, a 38-hospital system with facilities in Arizona, California and Nevada, announced last week that it has begun work to eliminate genetically engineered sugar beet and cloned-animal meat and dairy products from its [...]

VMware Platform Supports Clinical Applications and Automated Health Information Systems, Reduces Hardware Costs by nearly 90% and Power Costs by 30%
PALO ALTO, Calif. — April 7, 2009 — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced that Catholic Healthcare West [...]

Hospitals generate large amounts of diverse wastes on a daily basis – estimates suggest about 13.2 million pounds nationally. Federal, State and local initiatives are helping hospitals reduce their waste generation in very tangible ways. Come hear about California and Nevada efforts and the Hospitals for a Healthy Environment Partnership and their concrete environmental results – mercury reduced, water and energy saved, and solid waste minimized and recycled.