About CleanMed

Mission

Accelerate the health care sector’s commitment to environmental sustainability and regenerative health to improve the health of people and the environment.

Goals

• Maximize opportunities for the health care sector's development, adoption, and dissemination of environmentally preferable products and practices, and its design, construction and operations of green buildings.

• Convene health care stakeholders – senior administrators, clinicians, purchasing professionals, university researchers, designers of professional buildings, and vendors of cleaner and safer products and services – to share and exhibit environmentally regenerative practices.

• Provide examples of best practices and tools in environmental sustainability that reduce health care's environmental footprint.

• Promote environmentally sustainable design practices and construction materials in health care.

• Incorporate environmentally preferable purchasing practices into health care and group purchasing organizations.

• Showcase products that are occupationally safer and less toxic to the patient and the environment.

• Evaluate alternatives to medical waste incineration.