Group Purchasing Organizations and Environmentally Preferable Purchasing

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Group Purchasing Organizations and
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing

• Presented By Champion Group Purchasing
  Organizations of H2E

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Sources of health and environmental impacts
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H2E Commitment work with administration to
front line workers
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Sample Environmental Programs

• Energy Efficiency
• Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
• Glutaraldehyde/ EtO Elimination
• Green Construction, Renovation Design
• HIPAA/Confidential Paper mgmt
• Integrated Pest Management
• Mercury elimination
• Pharmaceutical mgmt
• Red bag waste minimization
• Recycling programs
• Single-Use Device Reprocessing
• Solvent Recovery
• Universal waste recycling
• Water Conservation

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Success!

• Alta Bates Summit Medical Ctr. Oakland, CA
• Recycled 757 tons of mixed paper, bottles cans
  and over 50 of construction debris.
• Implemented equipment reuse program, saving
  53,500 in first year.
• Kaiser Permanente Hawaii Region, Honolulu, HI
• Environmentally Preferable Purchasing program,
  including green fabrics, panel and tack boards
• Construction Recycling
• Mercury Free Purchasing Policy
• Retrofit of Garage Lighting with energy savings
  of 30,427.
• St. Joseph Mercury Health System, Ann Arbor, MI
• Xylene and alcohol recovery
• Elimination of mercury containing lab chemicals
• Transition from Glutaraldehyde to OPA
• Greener Cleaners in public areas
• Construction of waste material handling and
  recovery area.

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Success!

• Foote Health System, Jackson, MI
• Reduced red bags from 180 to 105 tons, saving
  44,100/year.
• Implemented energy conservation program
• Single use device reprocessing with savings of
  56,281/year.
• Bronson Methodist Hospital, Kalamazoo, MI
• Converted disposable admission kit to reusable
  savings over 36,000
• Converted PC monitors from CRTS to LCDs, saving
  21,800 per year in energy costs.
• Switched to Micro Fibre Mops, reducing water use
  by 480,000 gallons of water and 13,000 gallons of
  cleaning chemicals.
• Donated 9 tons of medical equipment and furniture
• 10 staff pay incentive to environmental program
  improvement.
• Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
• Recycled 40 of waste in 2004 375 tons of
  paper, 417 tons of corrugated, 29 tons of glass
  and metal, 30 tons of scrap metal, 18 tons of
  universal waste, donated 142 tons of pallets,
  medical supplies, computers and track materials.

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Success!

• Sparrow Health System, Lansing, MI
• Red bag reduction suction canister reduction by
  15,000 pounds per year.
• Alternative to Ethylene Oxide
• Implementation of Micro Chemistry practices
  reducing RMW by 7,800 pounds per year.
• University of Michigan Hospitals Health
  Centers, Ann Arbor, MI
• Strengthened EPP program with Design Group to set
  standard including paper, carpets, wall
  coverings, wastebaskets.
• Chemical tracking system for sharing and
  reduction.
• Donation program including furniture, medical
  supplies, cell phones, mattresses, eye glasses
• Recycling captured 934.5 tons of material.
• M-bay material sharing program written up as H2E
  Case Study.
• Catholic Health Care West, SF, CA
• Implementation of mercury free purchasing policy
• Reduction of waste by 9 and haz waste by 23.
• Decreased energy use by 7
• Organic Garden, composting food and biodiesel
  fuel.

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MORE Success!

• Red Bag Reduction by 16
• Recycled 164 tons of boxes
• Removed 125 lbs. of mercury
• Purchased 35 post consumer paper
• Organic and pesticide Free Garden
• Saved 21,000 reprocessing items
• Collected 696 thermometers in exchange
• Closed On site incinerator
• Donated 4.7 tons of food.
• Purchased 325 Energy Star computers
• Donated 1 ton of desks, beds, TV and others
• Recycled 260 gallons of xylene
• Returned 1,334 lbs of outdated nonhazardous drugs
  and 41 lbs of outdated hazardous pharmaceuticals
  to a reverse distributor
• Recycled 112 tons of paper
• Collected 57 flower vases to return to florist
• Eliminated daily newspaper delivery to patients
  saving 18,000 and eliminating 9,100 pounds of
  waste.
• Recycled 1.5 tons of waste oil
• Sold approximately 150 computer systems per year
  to staff with 30,000 income and diversion of 3
  tons of waste.

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Champion GPOs

• Gina Pugliese RN MS, Premier, Inc
• Dee Ann Cross, R.N., M.S., Novation
• Lisa Kidd, Associated Purchasing Services
• Michelle L. Kraus, Pharm.D., MedAssets Supply
  Chain Systems
• Annetta Nellams, Broadlane
• Jean Livingston, RN, PhD, Consorta, Inc.
• Jason Pitts, MHA, MBA, Amerinet

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Learn about your GPO

• 1. What are your GPOs current Environmental or
  "greener"
• projects or contracts that you're working
  on?
• 2. What is your company's mission statement? Is
  there language
• addressing a commitment to public health and
  the
• environment?
• 3. How do you communicate customers needs to
  manufacturers
• and how can a hospital get their concerns or
  requests for
• guidance to the GPO? What are the
  mechanisms for multi
• departmental participation in material and
  program evaluation?
• 4. Do you have a newsletter or other formal
  method of sharing
• educational or new contract information? If
  not, how is
• information shared with customers?
• 5. What is your web link where customers can
  access EPP
• contracts?

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For More Information on EPP Contracts

• Broadlane www.broadlane.com
• Novation Marketplace_at_Novation.
• (customers only) Public www.novationco.com.
• Amerinet www.amerinet-gpo.com
• Associated Purchasing Services www.apskc.org
• Premier - www.premierinc.com/safety
• www.premierinc.com/all/safety/publications/subscr
  ibe.jsp
• MedAssets - www.medassets.com/SupplyChain/WhatWeDo
  /EPPP
• Consorta www.consorta.com
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