Hospitals/Health Care

A CHER workshop entitled, “Our Health, Our Environment: Nurses Making the Connection at Work and at Home” was held at the CT Children’s Medical Center (CCMC) in Hartford in October 2007. The workshop targeted nurses and student nurses and was organized with CCMC and nurses representing the Connecticut Nurses Association. The purpose of the workshop was to educate nurses about substances found at home and at work that are impacting people’s health and the environment. The participants also learned how to set up a “green team” at work and about the resources available from Hospitals For a Health Environment (H2E).

The CT DEP P2 Office has partnered with the Department of Consumer Protection (DCP) Drug Control Division on pharmaceutical disposal issues:

-DCP and the P2 Office sent a fact sheet on consumer medicine disposal with the DCP license renewal notice to thousands of CT pharmacies and pharmacists

-The CT DEP P2 office is working with DCP on developing a fact sheet on medicine disposal for nursing homes, which is expected to be completed by June 2008

-The P2 Office and DCP Drug Control jointly staffed a table on consumer drug disposal at “Consumer Protection Day” that was held at the state capitol.