The Greenhealth Exchange cooperative, founded by healthcare organizations Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Dignity Health, Gundersen Health System and Partners HealthCare, along with Health Care Without Harm, will make it easier for healthcare organizations to buy green, according to an article on the Health Facilities Management website.

Leading healthcare organizations have begun to reevaluate products based on the kind of healing environment hospitals are creating for both patients and staff,” according to Gary Cohen, president and founder of Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth.

Healthcare organizations are taking steps to reduce toxins and chemicals of concern from their facilities. 

Hospitals have pledged to reduce purchasing of furnishings that contain five chemicals: flame retardants, formaldehyde, stain- and water-resistant perfluorinated compounds, polyvinyl chloride and antimicrobials. 

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