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Stryker Sustainability Solutions announced it is sponsoring Practice Greenhealth's new Greening the Supply Chain Initiative. The Initiative engages businesses in meeting the emerging demand for more environmentally preferable purchasing (EPP) practices for products within healthcare facilities, GPOs and in the marketplace. Stryker Sustainability Solutions, formerly Ascent, joins group purchasing organizations and top-performing hospitals throughout the country to support Greening the Supply Chain.
The Greening the Supply Chain Initiative aims to provide a set of common tools for purchasers, suppliers and manufacturers to ensure environmentally preferable products are available, cost-competitive and in demand as the industry invariably shifts toward more environmentally and fiscally responsible purchasing systems.
"To create an efficient healthcare supply chain, key systemic changes are needed to help hospitals understand how to better manage financial and environmental resources," said Lars Thording, Stryker Sustainability Solutions' senior director of marketing and public affairs. "We're honored to join leading hospital systems in support of Practice Greenhealth's initiative to show providers it is easy to implement supply chain practices that reduce waste without requiring any significant investment."
Stryker Sustainability Solutions has helped thousands of hospitals reduce their environmental footprint through reprocessing and remanufacturing medical devices that are marketed in North America as "single use" by the original manufacturers and are often needlessly thrown away. Stryker's reprocessing programs help its hospital partners save hundreds of millions of dollars each year. Reprocessing single-use medical devices allows hospitals to re-allocate their scarce resources to enhancing patient care through investments such as hiring more nurses or the purchase of much-needed equipment.
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