Understanding Healthcare Sustainability Metrics & Measurements

June 6, 2025

Description 

This session will serve as an introduction to metrics and data in the sustainability sphere, providing a review of various data streams and reporting in sustainability.  This session will introduce basic concepts of being able to understand environmental impacts of products and practices, as well as potential ways to compare environmental impact among various healthcare products and processes.

Target Audience

  • Infection Preventionists
  • Hospital Epidemiologists
  • Hospital Leadership
  • ID Physicians
  • Pharmacists
  • Microbiologists

Learning Objectives

After participating in this activity, learners will be able to:

  1. Explain basic sustainability metrics used for tracking environmental impact.
  2. Differentiate various types of waste and their environmental and health associations within healthcare settings.
  3. Describe what a life cycle analysis (LCA) is and know resources for looking up healthcare associated LCA’s.
Course summary
Course opens: 
04/28/2025
Course expires: 
04/28/2026
Event starts: 
06/06/2025 - 1:30pm EDT
Event ends: 
06/06/2025 - 2:30pm EDT
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Part of: 
Advancing Healthcare Sustainability in Infection Prevention
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In accordance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education's (ACCME) Standard for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, all faculty and planning partners must disclose all financial relationship(s) with any ineligible company within the prior 24 months for any amount. SHEA identifies and mitigates all conflict of interest prior to delivering the educational activity to learners. 

Speakers:

Nicole Poletto, MESM
UC San Diego Health
No relevant financial relationships to disclose
 
Jonathan E. Slutzman, MD
Harvard Medical School
*Consulting: AstraZeneca; AlphaSights
*Advisory Board: Teleflex, Inc.

Planners:

Shira Abeles, MD
University of California, San Diego
No relevant financial relationships to disclose
 
Sarah Krein, PhD, RN
University of Michigan
No relevant financial relationships to disclose
 
Harjot K. Singh, MD, ScM
Weil Cornell Medicine
No relevant financial relationships to disclose
 
Dan Uslan, MD. MBA
UCLA Health
No relevant financial relationships to disclose 
 
 
*All relevant financial relationships listed above have been mitigated
 
SHEA's 2025 LearningCE Program Committee assisted with the development of this program. You can view the 2025 LearningCE Program Committee Roster and Disclosures.

Accreditation Statements 

In support of improving patient care, The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

PHYSICIANS: 

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America designates this activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

ABIM MOC Recognition Statement
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.00 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to Joint Accreditation for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

By submitting a claim for ABIM MOC, you hereby give SHEA permission to share individual physician participation information with ABIM through JA PARS.

NURSES:

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 CNE credit. Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

PHARMACISTS:

CPE Accreditation Statement for Pharmacists
SHEA is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. ACPE Universal Activity Number has yet to be assigned to this activity. This activity is acceptable for a maximum of 1.00 live CPE contact hours (1.00 CEUs) in states that recognize ACPE providers. 

Upon completion of this ACPE-approved activity, participants will receive 1.00 credits on their NABP e-Profile section of the CPE Monitor. It is the participant's responsibility to upload the correct NABP number and date of birth when submitting your evaluation. 

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