2023 Together - IE218 - The New Healthcare Imperative: Advancing Sustainable Collaborations
This session will focus on integrating sustainability programs to protect human and environmental health through problem-solving and efforts to transform energy efficiency, water conservation, waste diversion, green design and construction, sustainable procurement, and climate action. Three organizations will share innovative sustainability program success stories.
Target Audience
- Healthcare Quality Professionals
- Nurses
- Pharmacists
- Pharmacy Technicians
- Physicians
- Other Healthcare Professionals
Learning Objectives
Describe sustainability frameworks that can be used to increase patient safety, reduce risk and improve human and community health.
Identify implementation barriers, track critical metrics, realize cost savings, and actionable solutions to improve environmental sustainability and health equity.
Terry Duffina, Director of Sustainability, Stanford Health Care, Palo Alto, Calif.
Aparna Dial, Senior Director, Sustainability, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio
Shane Dunne, Manager Sustainability, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Cristina Indiveri, AVP, Environmental Sustainability, Vizient (Moderator)
Disclosure of Financial Relationships:
Relevant Financial Relationships
Vizient, Inc., Jointly Accredited for Interprofessional Continuing Education, defines companies to be ineligible as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
An individual is considered to have a relevant financial relationship if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.
Shane Dunne, speaker for this educational activity, is an individual stock owner for Johnson & Johnson.
All relevant financial relationships listed for these individual(s) have been mitigated.
All others in a position to control content for this educational activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Identification, Mitigation, and Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships
As an accredited provider of continuing education, Vizient, Inc. is dedicated to ensuring this activity presents learners with only accurate, balanced, scientifically justified recommendations, and is free from promotion, marketing, and commercial bias. In accordance with The Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, all planners, faculty, and others in control of the educational content have disclosed the absence or existence of all financial relationships (of any dollar amount) with ineligible companies within the past 24 months.
It is Vizient’s policy that owners and employees of ineligible companies, and any individuals who refuse to disclose the absence or existence of financial relationships with any ineligible companies are disqualified from participating as planners or faculty.
Ineligible companies – those companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Credit Types
Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
This activity was planned by, and for, the healthcare team, and learners will receive .75 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.
Available Credit
- 0.75 ACPE Pharmacist
- 0.75 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
- 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 0.75 ANCC
- 0.75 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
- 0.75 General CE - Attendance
- 0.75 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)