News brief: Celebrating redesignation with 3,000 people-and only one bag of trash
HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, July 28, 2009
Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland, OR, recently celebrated its redesignation as an ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® facility with a huge barbecue for 3,000 people. And as part of its efforts to be a green organization, it also managed to end the event by sending only one bag of trash to a landfill.
The barbecue ran for 24 hours so staff members from all shifts could participate, and featured hamburgers, hot dogs, numerous sides, condiments, fudge bars, and 2,000 12-ounce sodas. The hospital generated so little garbage by using bulk containers for condiments, recycling cans and other material, composting uneaten food, and using corn-based cutlery that is biodegradable. The majority of the trash generated turned out to be the wrappers from the 2,000 fudge bars offered for dessert.
To read tips about how the medical center is focused on being environmentally conscious, visit OregonLive.com.
Source: OregonLive.com
Related Products
-
Strategies for Nurse Managers
Strategies for Nurse Managers is a 12-page monthly how-to newsletter that was created exclusively to help you save time...
-
HCPro's Guide to Assessing, Pursuing, and Achieving Excellence
Begin your journey to designation or redesignation with this fully updated book and CD-ROM. You'll gain an understanding of...
-
HCPro's E-Mail Tools for the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, 2nd Edition
This resource provides you with 52 customizable e-mails you can send to staff each week to communicate the history, value...
-
The Project Director's Toolkit, Second Edition
Full of helpful tools, The Project Director's Toolkit: HCPro's Guide to Collecting Evidence and Writing Narratives for the...
-
Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators:
This 90-minute webcast discusses the nurse's role in quality improvement and offers practical tips to help you collect and...
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- Topic: CMS, OESS post new security compliance review information, checklist
- HIPAA Q&A: Answering service messages
- Q/A: Volume requirement for reporting hydration services
- News and briefs: Oklahoma Osteopathic Association against residency bill change
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- QA:Coding multiple initial infusions
- The debate continues: Nurses who reported physician to the Texas Medical Board file federal appeal
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- Are your workforce members texting PHI?
- E-mailed
-
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- Are your workforce members texting PHI?
- Don't let these sentinel events trigger falsely
- Arkansas woman convicted for HIPAA violation
- Q/A: Coding infusions to correct low potassium levels
- Q&A tackles coding questions about injections and infusions
- Joint Commission Center announces handoff communication solutions
- Inside best practice: Reduce patient falls with a stoplight
- Identify modifiable risk factors to prevent patient falls
- Hospitalist-surgeon comanagement has no effect on outcomes
- Searched