Lisa Eisenhauer

One way the health care sector can help curb the threat posed by plastics in the future is to return to some practices of the past, says Dr. Philip J. Landrigan. Landrigan led a CHA webinar in March focused on the climate and health risks of plastics. The webinar was part of CHA's observance of Earth Day, which is April 22. He discussed how health care providers have moved away from a "circular economy" in which medical supplies such as gowns and masks were made of reusable materials.

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With new strategic plan, CEO leads effort to ‘illuminate’ Avera’s care delivery system March 2025 When he moved from another system to take over the top post at Avera Health, Jim Dover says his first priority was "seeking to understand" the system. He sees the biggest mistake a leader who's new to an organization can make to be assuming to know the place well right away. "In reality, they don't know anything," says Dover, who became president and CEO of Avera Health in fall 2023.