Keywords

health services, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, organizational strategy, sustainability

 

Authors

  1. Ramirez, Bernardo MD, MBA
  2. Oetjen, Reid M. PhD
  3. Malvey, Donna PhD, MHSA

Abstract

Are there additional costs associated with achieving goals of sustainable health care? Will going green enhance or impede financial performance? These are questions that all health care managers should confront, yet there is little evidence to show that health care sustainability is affordable or profitable. This article considers what is presently known and suggests that health care managers use an assessment framework to determine whether they are ready to achieve health care sustainability.