{"id":74,"date":"2020-10-02T19:39:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T19:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sustainabilityreport.ucop.edu\/?post_type=location&p=74"},"modified":"2023-05-16T15:31:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T15:31:27","slug":"ucla-health","status":"publish","type":"location","link":"https:\/\/sustainabilityreport.ucop.edu\/2021\/locations\/ucla-health\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Like with many health systems across the country, COVID-19 continued to impact UCLA Health\u2019s sustainability efforts in 2021, specifically in waste diversion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To mitigate this impact, its staff implemented a variety of innovative programs that included expanding its nationally recognized reusable isolation gown program<\/a> to testing sites and clinics, implementing a paper towel composting program in restrooms and break rooms, diverting nearly 30,000 pounds from landfill and saving $310,000 through its medical device reprocessing program, and upcycling its surgical wrap to create masks through a community partnership with UC Irvine.<\/p>\n\n\n

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UCLA Health\u2019s Santa Monica hospital continued purchasing 100% renewable energy through the Clean Power Alliance. It was able to reduce the number of operating room cases where desflurane \u2014 the most potent greenhouse gas anesthetic \u2014 was the primary gas to below 1%, saving more than $190,000 and achieving emissions reductions equivalent to taking 250 cars off the road. It increased the number of EV fleet vehicles that transport staff and patients to four and formed a climate resiliency and environmental justice committee in partnership with its Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion office. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

UCLA Health strengthed partnerships with the David Geffen School of Medicine and UCLA School of Nursing to update the health curriculum to include climate change, environmental justice, health equity and the social determinants of health. Its partnerships with the Fielding School of Public Health and Healthy Climate Solutions teams seek to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change on the most vulnerable populations in the greater Los Angeles area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Climate Change is Not Gender Neutral<\/a><\/h3>\n

The title of this blog post takes a phrase from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Globally, women have less economic, political and legal clout than men and are thus more vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>

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Many Mountains to Climb: Rising Up to the Challenges of Climate Change, COVID and Racial Injustice<\/a><\/h3>\n

A blog post by James Evans, sustainability programs manager at UCLA Health, discusses the intersection of these issues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n