A hospital is distinct from nearly every other type of commercial real estate. When you manage such a facility, the margin for error is extremely thin. One ...

Under pressure to reduce costs and improve quality, many hospitals and health systems are adopting approaches to improve processes. Some strategies, such as Lean and Six Sigma, aim to streamline ...

Hospitals and health systems are not immune from concerns about their environmental impact. Most studies surround the discharge of anesthetic gases or single-use plastics. A new study provides ...

Six of the 25 recipients of Practice Greenhealth’s annual Top 25 Environmental Excellence Awards were named to the list for the first time this year. Practice Greenhealth, a nonprofit sustainable ...

Human health and the environment are inextricably linked at local, national and global scales. Exposure to environmental issues, such as pollution, climate change, extreme heat events and poor water ...

More than half of hospitals inspected over the past two years had issues with ageing buildings or poor physical environments, affecting the safety of care provided to patients, an analysis of ...

Lauren joined CBS News Chicago in May 2016 and is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. La Rabida Children's Hospital went all out for Earth Day on Wednesday, with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 25 Investigates has obtained two completed health reports looking into the safety of the environment at Newton-Wellesley Hospital ...

In a conversation with Luciana Julião, environment editor at The Conversation Brasil, during COP30 in Belém, Fiocruz researcher and environmental health specialist Sandra Hacon explained why the ...