Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Health Care Providers Prepare For Climate Change

The Extraordinary Steps Health Care Providers Are Taking To Prepare For Climate Change by Katie Valentine.  Think Progress.  July 30, 2013.

(1)  The hospital evacuations during Hurricane Sandy showed how ___________ the health care industry is to the effects of climate change.

(2)  Evacuations along with warnings of intense ______________, increased incidences of ________ and __________ and expanding range of __________ have made health care professionals take notice of climate change.

(3)  What are some of the ways that Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston is being "future-proofed?"

(4)  True or False:  Preparing hospitals for climate change is proving overwhelmingly expensive.

(5)  Hospitals use ____________ energy per square foot as regular office buildings.

(6)  About 200 hospitals across the country use ______________ to save up to 35 percent of its energy costs.

(7)  The health care industry accounts for ________ of U.S. emissions, making it as large a contributor to climate change as _______________.

(8)  True or False:  The American Hospitals Associations does not have a position on climate change.

(9)  The ________________ has 675 hospitals enrolled in an effort to make hospitals more environmentally-friendly.

(10)  Under the Affordable Care Act, hospitals are, for the first time, mandated to do ____________ and align their care to ____________




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