The Center for Health Design Blog

October 7th, 2008

Posted by
Sara Marberry

Way to Go Massachusetts

On September 24, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health approved new guidelines requiring healthcare providers who are building new or renovated facilities to use the Green Guide for Health Care.

Hospitals and extended care providers who are applying for a Determination of Need must get at least 50% of the possible green building points in the Green Guide or the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) - Health Care.

This is really big news for the green healthcare movement and those who have advocated for it for so many years — organizations like Health Care Without Harm, Practice Greenhealth, Healthy Building Network, and The Center for Health Design. Even though it makes sense to go green for so many reasons, often it takes regulation to “force” organizations to do the right thing.

Hopefully, other states will follow Massachusetts’ lead and make this a nationwide policy so that one day we’ll never remember a time when healthcare facilities were not environmentally responsible.

Read issue papers published by The Center for Health Design and Health Care Without Harm on environmental leadership for healthier patients, families, and communities.

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