October 16 meeting features speaker on Lean & Green in Healthcare
Paula Del Giudice
October NPPR Lean and Environment Workgroup:
How to Implement Energy Economy and Environment Projects
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
12 noon Pacific, 1 p.m. Mountain, 2 p.m. Central, 3 p.m. Eastern
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Speaker: Andy Flodin – Administrative Director of Support Services. One areas of his responsibility is the EnviroMason sustainability initiative for all locations of Virginia Mason Medical Center. Andy has been with Virginia Mason for three years previously comes from Compass Group at Microsoft in the support services for the headquarters in Redmond, Washington.
About Virginia Mason Medical Center
Virginia Mason Medical Center, founded in 1920, is a nonprofit regional health
care system in Seattle that serves the Pacific Northwest. Virginia Mason
employs more than 5,300 people and includes a 336-bed acute-care hospital, a
primary and specialty care group practice of nearly 460 physicians, locations
throughout the Puget Sound area and Bailey-Boushay House, the first skilled-nursing
and outpatient chronic care management program in the U.S. designed and built
specifically to meet the needs of people with HIV/AIDS. Benaroya Research
Institute at Virginia Mason is internationally recognized for its breakthrough
autoimmune disease research. Virginia Mason was the first health system to
apply lean manufacturing principles to health care delivery to eliminate waste
and improve quality and patient safety.
Awards and distinctions include Top Hospital of the Decade by The Leapfrog
Group, 2012 Top Hospital (for the sixth consecutive year) and grade
"A" patient safety rating by The Leapfrog Group, 2012 Distinguished
Hospital for Clinical Excellence and Patient Safety Excellence Award from
HealthGrades®, 2012 America’s 100 Best Specialty Excellence Award for Overall
Cardiac and Gastrointestinal Care from HealthGrades and Energy Star Certified
for multi facility complex.
EnviroMason Its environmental stewardship initiative, EnviroMason, provides the framework for making unique energy and waste management decisions, such as setting policies on reliability and use, making efficiency improvements, supporting capital planning and infrastructure design, and encouraging employee participation and innovation. EnviroMason focuses on seven principles:
- Leadership alignment and commitment
- Compliance assurance and pollution prevention
- System integration
- Public communication and community involvement
- Measurement and continuous improvement
- Industry leadership
- Environmental stewardship
About the Lean and Environment Workgroup
The Lean and Environment Work Group is a partnership between the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable (P2.org), the Zero Waste Network (ZeroWasteNetwork.org) and the Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center (PPRC.org). Its purpose is to demonstrate the profitability of incorporating sustainable business practices into operations. Anyone who is interested in being part of the group should go to http://groups.google.com/group/lean-and-green-workgroup?hl=en and click on “apply” for membership. If you already have a Google ID, you can sign in and apply for membership. If you don’t have a Google ID, you can click on the link to the right to create an ID and apply for membership. Presentations and materials referenced are available through the group.
The Lean and Environment Work Group meets on the third Tuesday of every month at 12 noon Pacific. Call in information and agendas are available from the Google group.
The google site contains:
- Copies of past presentations
- announcements and updates
- contact information
https://sites.google.com/site/leangreenworkgroup/
Hugh O’Neill, Chair
Paula Del Giudice, Board Liaison, and group co-facilitator
Thomas Vinson, work group co-facilitator