Ascent Healthcare Solutions Receives "Champion for Change" Healthcare Environmental Excellence Award at CleanMed 2009.Award Recognizes Ascent's Contributions to Improving Hospital Sustainability Through Its Medical Device Reprocessing/Remanufacturing Program PHOENIX -- Ascent Healthcare Solutions, a leader in delivering healthcare resource sustainability, announced today it received the "Champion for Change" award at CleanMed 2009, the international conference on environmentally sustainable health care. The award was presented by Robert Jarboe of Practice Greenhealth on Tuesday in Chicago at CleanMed's 2009 Environmental Excellence Awards ceremony. The award holds highest honors, recognizing Ascent's environmental excellence based on accomplishments in improving the environmental performance of its hospital partners, as well as its own initiatives to become a more environmentally responsible organization. During the past 20 years, Ascent's customers have collectively eliminated an estimated 24 million pounds of waste and reduced in excess of $1 billion in supply costs. In 2008 alone, its hospital partners eliminated 4.3 million pounds from local landfills, and realized a record $138,142,000 in supply cost and waste savings. Ascent's reprocessing/remanufacturing program is one of the only healthcare resource sustainability models that benefits the environment, is focused on maintaining the highest standard of patient safety, provides immediate cost reductions and savings with no upfront capital investment, and at the same time supports a hospital's ability to invest in improving patient care. Robert Jarboe, Executive Director, Practice Greenhealth, explained, "I have been consistently impressed im·press 1 tr.v. im·pressed, im·press·ing, im·press·es 1. To affect strongly, often favorably: with the persistent, focused way that Ascent Healthcare Solutions has approached its environmental sustainability effort. This is clearly a company that is serious about reducing its footprint and contributing to a healthier, cleaner health care environment." John Grotting, Ascent's CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , stated, "We are pleased to be awarded 'Champion for Change' for our contributions to the greening of healthcare. In this challenging climate - both economically and environmentally, our program provides hospitals with a sustainability solution that fits seamlessly into daily operations and produces dramatic results that are environmentally responsible and patient care focused." Grotting continued, "Our program most often serves as the catalyst for our hospital partners to launch other initiatives that reduce harm to the environment and support the health and well being of the communities they serve. We take our role in this transformation seriously both as an enabler of environmentally sound practices and as an environmentally focused resource sustainability organization." ABOUT ASCENT HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS By continuously pioneering sustainability initiatives in healthcare, Ascent Healthcare Solutions has become a leader in the medical device industry. Ascent's programs target inefficient practices to reclaim and redirect re·di·rect tr.v. re·di·rect·ed, re·di·rect·ing, re·di·rects To change the direction or course of. n. A redirect examination. re consumable A material that is used up and needs continuous replenishment, such as paper and toner. "The low-tech end of the high-tech field!" and financial resources to promote healthy and responsible hospitals. Today, Ascent's medical device sustainability programs deliver remanufactured and/or reprocessed medical devices as well as comprehensive recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. and redistribution re·dis·tri·bu·tion n. 1. The act or process of redistributing. 2. An economic theory or policy that advocates reducing inequalities in the distribution of wealth. initiatives. Ascent has been recognized as a "Champion for Change" by Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (now Practice Greenhealth) in recognition of the dramatic environmental benefits its remanufacturing and reprocessing Reprocessing may refer to:
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