Workgroups

• Built Environment
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Healthy Purchasing
• Research and Education
• Sustainable Operations

The work of GHSI takes place in collaborative groups called Workgroups.
To join a group or find out more about its work, click on a link below.

• Built Environment

  Rising and volatile energy costs, looming climate protection regulation, and a growing interest in healthier, energy efficient, high performance building practices is creating the impetus for a transformation of healthcare design, construction, operations and maintenance. Participating healthcare systems in GHSI will have access to an array of tools and "best practices" to implement strategies that will augment patient safety, workplace safety, and maximize the sector's environmental performance, while reducing healthcare's eco-footprint.  more

• Corporate Social Responsibility

  Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is the concept of leveraging organizational assets in ways that promote economic, social and environmental health. GHSI provides an avenue to advance CSR concepts by integrating safety and sustainability into members' business strategies and operations.  more

• Healthy Purchasing

  The Healthy Purchasing work of the GHSI offers one of the most highly leveraged opportunities in the entire Initiative. The goal is to use the collective purchasing power of participating hospital systems and their Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs) to transform the market for healthcare products and technologies that meet the goals of patient safety, workplace safety and environmental sustainability.  more

• Research and Education

  The focus of the GHSI Research work is to help findprovide funding and facilitate research that links better building designs, greener and safer materials and products and improved approaches to operations that will reduce the hazards associated with negative health affects and that contribute to healthier hospitals and an improved society.  more

• Sustainable Operations

  The Sustainable Operations strategy focuses on the acceleration of best practices for operations among the GHSI partners and the entire healthcare sector. Operations includes nearly every facet of support/ancillary services, including Environmental Services, Engineering, Pharmacy, Laboratory, Hazardous Materials, Dietary/Food Services, Safety, Risk Management, and Environmental Health and Safety.  more