Sentara Health hired its first Director of Sustainability in 2024 and is rolling out enterprise wide carbon and waste reduction programs across its 12 hospitals, including a 2025 shift to bulk CT contrast that eliminates hundreds of thousands of single use syringes annually.
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Products from our solutions directory that align with this hospital's stated commitments and active projects.
The first closed loop, 100% compostable medical isolation gown. Replaces single use plastic gowns with a plant based alternative collected and composted through a take back program.
On site aerobic digester that turns up to 220 lbs of hospital food waste and Terraloam compostable film gowns into finished compost in 24 hours closing the loop between cafeteria and clinical waste streams.
On site treatment system that decontaminates and recycles polystyrene petri dishes, PET tubes, medical tubing and polypropylene syringes back into usable resin.
First fully plastic free, PFAS free medication cup, made from bacterial cellulose. Naturally biodegrades in ~3 months and is ISO 10993 biocompatibility tested.
UK university spin out (NHS Innovation Accelerator fellow) that decontaminates and recycles lab consumables pipette tips, tubes, plates into reusable polymer feedstock on site.
Finnish startup making the first fully ecological hydrocolloid dressing decomposes to CO₂, water and humus with no microplastic residue.
Publicly documented programs where this hospital or its parent system reported measurable results.
Sentara rolled out bulk contrast injectors across its 58 CT scanners, replacing per patient single use syringes with a shared bulk system for the 218,000+ contrast enhanced scans it performs each year.
Sentara's sustainability team published the peer reviewed C6 Strategy a six domain framework for hospital emissions reduction now used as a planning reference by other systems.