Pressures grow on health care industry to reduce climate pollution
While hospitals might seem to be the unwitting victims of climate disasters, the U.S. health care system shoulders a good deal of the blame.
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While hospitals might seem to be the unwitting victims of climate disasters, the U.S. health care system shoulders a good deal of the blame.
How Hospitals Can Help Patients and the Planet Health care systems are trying to answer the central question of how to care for patients when climate change threatens their ability to remain open. A baby being evacuated from NYU Langone Health during Hurricane Sandy in 2012. The storm damaged the hospital, which has since built a cogeneration plant for electricity, heat and steam turbine-power air-conditioning.Credit...John Minchillo/Associated Press , which examines changes in the medical field. As climate change moves from a model of the future to the reality of the present, health care sy...