Health Systems, Environmental Groups Create Green Purchasing Co-op
RESTON, Va. — To take on the traditional group purchasing organizations (GPO), four health systems and two environmental organizations joined forces to create a green-focused cooperative. Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock; San Francisco-based Dignity Health; La Crosse; Wis.-based Gundersen Health System; and Boston-based Partners HealthCare teamed up with Reston-based Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth, also in Reston, to launch their catalog this fall.
CAMARILLO, Calif. — The City of Camarillo Planning Commission gave St. John’s Pleasant Valley Hospital the go-ahead on May 11 to proceed with the design and construction of the hospital’s new addition and modernization.