NH Health System Sustainability

Sign our Consensus Statement urging NH Health System Sustainability Actions

NH HWCA Educational Resources

Support Resources to Engage your own Health System

Federal Initiatives

• Health Sector Commitment to Emission Reductions and Resilience, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.

• Action Collaborative on Decarbonizing the U.S. Health Sectors

• The American Society for Health Care Engineering, Energy to Care

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Bibliography of Articles on Hospital Sustainability

• Decarbonizing the U.S. Health Sector – A Call to Action. Dzau et al, N Engl J Med 2021; 385:2117-2119

• Confronting Health Care’s Climate Crisis Conundrum. Kizer KW and Nadeau, KC, JAMA Network, 2022; 327 (8): 715-

• The Costs of Inaction: The Economic Burden of Fossil Fuels and Climate Change on Health in the United States. The Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, Natural Resources Defense Council and Wisconsin Health Professionals for Climate Action. (MSCCH, 2021)

• Can Sustainable Hospitals Help Bend the Health Care Cost Curve?, Kaplan et al, Commonwealth Fund, 2011

• Healthcare’s response to climate change: a carbon footprint assessment of the NHS in England, Tennison et al, Lancet Planetary Health, February, 2021

NH HWCA Letter to Hospital Administrators