Background

In 2007, Ramsay Health Care established an Environment & Sustainable Development Working Party with the following agenda to:

• Accelerate Ramsay’s environmental strategy through prioritising and allocating resources to environmental projects
• Systematically address environmental compliance at our hospitals
• Integrate environmental strategies with good business planning
• Where economically feasible, integrate Sustainable Built Environment principles and initiatives into ‘Brownfield’ developments
• Lower costs through more efficient use of resources and reduced waste
• Focus on Supply Chain Management
• Actively engage employees in the process

Ramsay Health Care has entered into Memorandum of Understanding with Department of Environment & Climate Change (NSW) through its Sustainable Advantage Program. The results will assist us to better understand where opportunities for energy and waste minimisation and water reduction can be progressed at a hospital level.

Many Ramsay Health Care hospitals are already recording excellent results particularly in the area of water and energy conservation and Ramsay is encouraging all its facilities to get behind these important initiatives.

• Hollywood - has won “Greening of Hollywood” ACHS Award for a range of initiatives including tree planting, recycling, using earth friendly power etc
• Hillcrest - CQ Best Corporate Award for waste reduction initiatives
• Joondalup Health Campus - worm farms introduced to reduce waste from kitchen
• Greenslopes Private Hospital - reduced water by 13% since 04/05 (despite expanding) & on track to achieve 25% reduction by 2008.
• Wangaratta - redirecting water from CSD has saved up to 600 litres a day.
• Pindara - started “Watch Every Drop” campaign.