WANTED: Individuals to Lead Maryland Hospitals to Greener Future!!!

MD H2E is facilitating the creation of Maryland’s Health Care Sustainability Leadership Council, comprised of health care providers who want to lead the development of environmental and community health efforts across Maryland.

Representatives from MedStar Health, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, The University of Maryland Medical Center, and Greater Baltimore Medical Center (GBMC) have already joined!

Sustainability leadership is about critical and forward thinking, piloting new ideas, modeling behaviors, and setting examples for others to follow. Here is what we expect to be part of the pioneering work of the HCSLC:

The HCSLC will provide guidance and advice to sustainability professionals working in Maryland.

The HCSLC will advise MD H2E on topics and endeavors to continue creating value to Maryland’s health care community.

The HCSLC will chart the course for statewide collaborative sustainability efforts.

The HCSLC will provide insights to creating a more vigorous marketplace.

This is an opportunity to work and learn from peers, create and participate in statewide campaigns and collaborative efforts, develop measurable statewide health care environmental goals, and leverage the commonalities among and between health care facilities to generate reduced costs and improved environmental and health outcomes!

MD H2E is a leader in creating statewide initiatives to promote sustainability in health care. To continue efforts, it is important to move forward aggressively. Facilitating the HCSLC will be MD H2E’s Technical Director, Joan Plisko, who is engaged in the national community on sustainability in health care and has shown effective leadership in this arena. MD H2E is seeking committed health professionals from ANY discipline to be part of this groundbreaking initiative to create and lead statewide environmental and health programs by Maryland’s health care institutions.

The first meeting will be a face-to-face meeting, held in February 2011 at a time and place TBD. After that, we expect to hold monthly conference calls to conduct business, with face-to-face meetings scheduled as needed. If you are interested in this exciting new endeavor, please contact Joan Plisko, plisko@son.umaryland.edu or 410-706-2107 by January 24th 2011.