Good morning and welcome to our last edition of MD H2E’s News Roundup for 2014.  Inside you will read about:

• A recap of the (very successful!) Trailblazer education event, along with links to all of the presentations
• A preview of the December Healthcare Sustainability Leadership Council meeting, and interview with the HCSLC’s advocacy committee chair
• Charging station rebates
• Hospital highlights: Food Day delights customers, and finding new uses for old soap dispensers
• Sustainable food pages
• Useful articles, upcoming events and much more!

If you are interested in contributing an article for the newsletter, or ‘tooting’ your hospital’s own horn on a recent initiative, please don’t hesitate to touch base. Email Carrie Flora at cflora@som.umaryland.edu.

Read the full newsletter here….November-December 2014

All 3 hospitals of LifeBridge Health served meat and/or poultry raised without antibiotics on Food Day joining the national effort.

• Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital served Glatt Farm shoulder roast and roasted chicken raised without routine antibiotics with Larriland Farms brazed root vegetables and Lewis Farms homebaked apple strudel.
• Sinai Hospital served all beef hot dogs raised without routine antibiotics as well as Parker Farms broccoli, McDowells mushrooms and Crown Orchards apples.
• Northwest Hospital served carribean chicken, chicken tenders and beef hot dogs all raised without routine antibiotcs.

Congratulations LifeBridge Health on educating your patrons and demonstrating your commitment to preserving the effectiveness of antibiotics for human medicine!

Northwest Hospital of LifeBridge Health serves meat and poultry raised without routine antibiotics on Food Day, Oct 24th.

Welcome to the October version of the MD H2E News Roundup. In this edition you will find:

• The agenda and registration link for our October 30^th Trailblazer Education event (it’s free!)
• A Trailblazer preview page
• A new LOCAL case study on hospitals using sustainability dashboards
• Healthcare sector resources from the Better Buildings Alliance
• Climate change study released by the Journal of the American Medical Association
• Information on Food Day (October 24^th) and new tools for sustainable food and “Healthy Food in Healthcare.”
• Topical, timely articles
• Leadership Council information (Chesapeake Food Leadership Council and the MD Healthcare Sustainability Leadership Council)
• …and much more!