Article: SPHERE collaborative designed to reduce healthcare's carbon footprint.(NEWSWIRE)

The Premier healthcare alliance has announced a climate and energy collaborative focused on reducing the healthcare industry's carbon footprint. SPHERE--Securing Proven Healthcare Energy Reduction (for the) Ecosystem--will build on Premier's environmental leadership and commitment to a healthy environment, focusing on reducing industry energy costs and greenhouse emissions.

Healthcare ranks as the country's second most energy intensive industry, spending more than $6.5 billion each year while experiencing double-digit cost increases. Volatile energy prices are diverting money needed for critical healthcare quality and safety improvements. Hospitals are the ...

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