Greenhouse gas emissions of a large, academic outpatient orthopedic center in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Hospitals and health systems create pollution as a byproduct of their work improving people's personal health. Pollution can harm human health. As part of a broad effort to comprehensively quantify a health system's pollution, we started with one group of pollutants, greenhouse gases, at a freestanding outpatient orthopedic center (OC).

Methods

OC has clinic rooms, imaging, administrative offices, and a small ambulatory surgery center. It was newly constructed and received LEED Silver certification in 2022. The Greenhouse Gas Protocol was used to categorize emissions into Scope 1 (direct), Scope 2 (indirect from purchased energy), and Scope 3 (supply and value chain) emissions for fiscal year 2023.

Results

OC's total annual emissions were 11,049 metric to

SUBMITTER: Jett AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12580340 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature