Health Care Sustainability Leadership Council (HCSLC)

Launched in 2011, the Maryland Health Care Sustainability Leadership Council is a volunteer organization comprised of health care providers who are leading environmental sustainability efforts across Maryland’s hospitals and health care facilities.

The mission of the Maryland Health Care Sustainability Leadership Council is to foster environmentally conscious health care facilities that engage, educate, inspire and advocate for social responsibility in their leaders, employees, patients, and the wider community.

Benefits of being part of the HCSLC include:
• Engage, network, share, and learn from peers;
• Create and participate in collaborative efforts and campaigns;
• Assess, develop, and benchmark sustainability goals and programs; and
• Leverage the commonalities among health care facilities to generate reduced costs and improved environmental and health outcomes.

There is a seat at the table for every hospital, health system, and health care provider in Maryland!

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! If you are interested in participating, contact Joan Plisko, Technical Director of MD H2E, at: jplisko@som.umaryland.edu

Upcoming Meetings:

The new leadership team will be announced at the next HCSLC meeting planned for December 12, 8 a.m. – 10 a.m.  Guest speakers will be:

Dan Morhaim, M.D. Maryland House of Delegates, District 11
Delegate Morhaim is the Maryland Assembly’s only physician member and a strong leader of health and sustainability in Maryland legislation.

Tom Hucker, Maryland House of Delegates, District 20
Delegate Hucker was the sponsor of the successful effort to ban arsenic in chicken feed in 2012, an achievement that got national attention and which benefited from the public support of several hospitals.

Please RSVP by December 5 to cwallace@aahs.org

Guest Speaker Presentations:

9-19-13 HCSLC Meeting CFLC –At September’s HCSLC meeting, the theme was “food.” Gina Navarro from the Chesapeake Food Leadership Council spoke with attendees about what her organization is working on, while Joe Fleischman and Chris Isennock, Executive Chefs for Meritus Health and Medstar Health, respectively, reported on their hospitals’ successes.