Hospitals, health systems and health organizations representing the interests of more than 3,500 hospitals from six continents today launched the Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Network (GGHHN), an international initiative to reduce the health sector’s ecological footprint and promote public environmental health.

One in a series of events to be held around the world in 2012, the launch took place at the 20^th Annual Conference of the International Health Promoting Hospitals, where 33 new hospitals from countries as diverse as Thailand, Sweden, the Philippines, Nigeria and Taiwan committed to endorse the Network and undertake a series of initiatives to green their facilities.

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Our sister network in the United States, the Healthier Hospitals Initiative (HHI) and its eleven sponsoring health systems announced a set of  challenges for hospitals nationwide aimed at reducing the U.S. healthcare sector’s environmental footprint.  More than 500 leading hospitals across the United States have joined the HHI, a partnership coordinated by Health Care Without Harm, Practice Greenhealth,and the Center for Health Design.

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More than 500 leading hospitals across the United States have joined the Healthier Hospitals Initiative (HHI), a partnership coordinated by Health Care Without Harm (HCWH), Practice Greenhealth,and the Center for Health Design, and a sister initiative of the Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Network.

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