Healthcare Services

The Healthcare industry is a unique business sector because of its responsibility to first do no harm. While charged with promoting and maintaining human health its activities have direct impacts on the environment. It is a sizeable contributor of greenhouse gas emissions; a large consumer of water; a substantial generator of solid, hazardous and medical waste; it maintains a resource-intensive supply chain; and has a high utilization of transportation services.

Source 44 has developed a process that can help Healthcare organizations go beyond pollution prevention to minimize its impacts on the environment and move towards carbon neutrality. Our efforts to green the supply chain and link quality of care and sustainability performance are unique in the industry.

We believe sustainability and quality initiatives are congruent. Both are increasingly measureable and reportable, both require continuous monitoring, both require a cultural commitment by the institution and both are in the best interest of patients and the community. As such we are developing Dashboards unique to our Healthcare customers’ needs that incorporate quality of care and sustainability performance indicators.

“This is a really important role for the Healthcare industry to play [reducing its environmental impact], because at the end of the day climate change is a Healthcare crisis.”

Gary Cohen
Co-Exec Dir Health Care Without Harm.