CleanMed 2001 :: Overview

	CleanMed 2001 was held on 4 - 5 May 2001 at the Colonnade Hotel in Boston. Our Mission Improving the Environment through Health Care-Related Product Choices. In October 2000, leaders in promoting a sustainable health care system met in San Francisco to develop consensus on an environmental agenda. The participants in Setting Healthcare's Environmental Agenda, recognizing that product choices affect human health and the environment, identified five areas in which purchasing choices make a difference: Mercury Elimination Worker Health and Safety Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) Plastic Use Green and Healthy Buildings Reprocessing of Single-Use Medical Devices These five areas are the focus of CleanMed 2001, which has two broad goals: Accelerate the international development and use of cleaner, safer, and high quality medical products by bringing together buyers of healthcare products, vendors, and university researchers. Create a forum in which these parties can discuss and evaluate the performance of alternative products and polymers.	Participants will learn the lifecycle hazards posed by medical products, how health care organizations are changing purchasing practices to improve human health and the environment, and which cleaner and safer products are on the market and how they perform (from both vendors and users). Audiences Senior Management in Health Care Purchasing Executives and Managers Materials Directors Nursing and Clinical Leaders Facility Directors Occupational Health Leaders Environmental Services Leaders Environmental, Health, and Safety Leaders University Researchers CleanMed 2001 Agenda List of Attendees List of Exhibitors CleanMed 2001 Brochure CleanMed 2001 Presentations



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