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Environmental services

Clean Harbors' Pharmaceutical Waste Management Estimator for hospitals provides a menu of service options and top-line estimates of costs. The questionnaire requests basic information, and then responds via e-mail, fax or postal mail. The questionnaire can be accessed here.

Planning

Siemens is releasing a three-part white paper on "Surviving the Storm: Tumultuous Times for America's Small Community Hospitals." The first part, which deals with implementing Electronic Health Records and Accessing Capital, can be accessed here.

Interiors

KI's new environmental website describes the company's sustainable practices and gives architects and designers the information they need to make environmentally friendly decisions when selecting furniture. It can be accessed here.

Biomedical

ECRI's paper on "Spending Scarce Resources on the Wrong Capital Budget Requests: Not In My Hospital!" tells hospitals how they can get the best return on their medical equipment dollars. It can be accessed here.