White House asks hospitals to fight health hazards of climate change

Healthcare community asked to help reduce potential harms


The White House is asking hospitals to fight the health hazards of climate change, according to an article on the Fierce Healthcare website.

The Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will release a "Health Care Facilities Toolkit," which offers fact sheets, checklists and case studies that illustrate best practices for creating a healthcare infrastructure that is resilient to the threat of climate change.

The measure comes after the new guidelines the White House issued in December, which suggest that hospitals should build or rebuild facilities to better prepare them for extreme weather events and develop contingency plans for electrical and water supply generation.

A White House Climate Change and Health Summit, set for later this spring, which will convene a variety of healthcare stakeholders and the Surgeon General to discuss the issue.

Read the article.

 

 



April 17, 2015


Topic Area: Energy and Power


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