Columbus Nonprofits Receive Cost-free Goods From OhioHealth’s Westerville Renovation

In February 2021, OhioHealth began a two-year renovation of the OhioHealth Westerville Clinical Campus.  This renovation will allow OhioHealth to present expanded and new expert services – relocating some providers within the making that will outcome in unique and/or even bigger areas for existing services, as effectively as incorporating new expert services, these types of as fat management and neuro rehab.  

Sustainability is at the heart of our therapeutic mission and core values at OhioHealth, and though waste is unavoidable in healthcare, specially when development in involved, making less waste is a person of five target parts for us.  

“Sustainability is one thing we truly concentrate on,” said Shawna Davis, OhioHealth vice president of external affairs and foundation operations in an job interview with the Columbus Dispatch. “As a substantial health-care system and employer, we have a responsibility and actually an prospect to cut down our environmental footprint. So as we have been hunting at revitalizing this room, alternatively than throwing all these supplies away and them going to the landfill, we believed, `What can we do with these items and how can we place them to superior use?’”

As part of this undertaking, OhioHealth is utilizing a range of sustainability attempts to lessen waste from our services that would usually be contributed to landfills.  We are partnering with Habitat for Humanity Restore, I am Boundless and Alvis to donate furnishings from the Westerville Health care Campus that are no for a longer time required here, but could be utilised by some others.  These objects incorporate furnishings, doorways, making components, cupboards and sinks, IT infrastructure and healthcare products.  So considerably, almost $200,000 truly worth of products have been donated – things that would have generally finished up in a landfill.

OhioHealth has not too long ago participated in a identical donation challenge in Athens. When principal treatment places of work moved to a new facility on the OhioHealth O’Bleness Hospital campus, the outdated offices ended up decommissioned through a collaboration with area nonprofits Rural Action and Goodwill. As section of the job, new takes advantage of will be uncovered for all unwelcome furniture, machines and provides that would usually have been despatched to a landfill.

To examine more about the donation of things and how they will be repurposed by these three corporations, simply click on the Columbus Dispatch symbol down below.