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Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital (Barrington, Ill.). Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital cut energy use intensity by approximately 37 percent since 2008 and curbed water consumption by 500,000 gallons in 2016. The hospital accepted several prestigious honors in 2017, including Practice Greenhealth’s…

Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital (Downers Grove, Ill.). Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital leads the Advocate Health system in purchasing Healthier Hospitals-compliant furniture, with 75 percent of furniture being void of target chemicals, excluding beds and mattresses. In 2017, the hospital earned Practice Greenhealth’s…

Advocate Christ Medical Center (Oak Lawn, Ill.). Advocate Christ Medical Center achieved LEED Gold certification for two projects in the past two years: a nine-story outpatient facility in 2015 and its eight-story East Tower in 2017. The hospital was honored for its…

While emergency department discharges after opioid-related admissions have decreased since 2010, discharges pertaining to heroin use have surged since 2008, according to a study published in Health Affairs.

A mass shooting Sunday night on the Las Vegas strip left more than 50 people dead and hundreds of others injured, according to a Los Angeles Times report.

CMS is offering special enrollment periods for Medicare beneficiaries and others affected by hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria.

The U.S. Navy will send the USNS Comfort, its hospital ship, to aid relief efforts in Puerto Rico a week after Hurricane Maria clobbered the island, according to CNN.

The CDC launched the Rx Awareness campaign Monday to educate Americans on the dangers associated with opioid misuse.

Officials at Ashford Presbyterian Community Hospital, a 199-bed facility in San Juan, Puerto Rico, said hospital management and administrators slept in the hospital despite the facility losing power when Hurricane Maria made landfall Wednesday, according to CNN.

Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico Sept. 20 as a Category 4 storm. Extreme flooding and strong winds knocked out power lines across the island, forcing many businesses to turn to alternative sources of power, if capable.