Reducing Health Care’s Climate Impact — Mission Critical or Extra Credit?
Alexander S. Rabin, Elizabeth Pinsky
Abstract
The Joint Commission has demoted proposed hospital sustainability standards from mandatory to optional. In making the standards “extra credit,” has the accrediting body strayed from its mission?
Topics & Concepts
Health careBusinessEnvironmental resource managementEnvironmental planningEnvironmental scienceEconomicsEconomic growthClimate Change and Health ImpactsGlobal Health Care IssuesHealthcare cost, quality, practices