Our Environment

Improving the environment

Our health and the environment are inextricably linked.

At Tidelands Health, we believe that fulfilling our mission to help people live better lives through better health means we must be stewards of our environment. We strive to minimize our environmental impact by limiting our energy consumption, using environmentally sound products and through our recycling efforts.

Saving energy

LED lighting is one of the most energy-efficient lighting technologies. Quality LED lights use at less energy and last 25 times longer than incandescent alternatives.

To leverage those benefits, Tidelands Health has spent more than $2 million replacing all overhead and exterior lighting at each of the health system’s care locations with LED alternatives.

Through efforts like those undertaken at Tidelands Health, the federal government projects that LED usage could save our country the annual electrical output of 44 large electric power plants and produce a total savings of more than $30 billion by 2027.

Recycling

Recycling reduces the amount of waste sent to landfills and incinerators, conserves natural resources, prevents pollution by reducing the need to collect new raw materials and helps support jobs.

For all those reasons and more, Tidelands Health recycles a wide range of products ranging from cooking oil used in the health system’s hospitals to batteries and cardboard. Even certain medical equipment such as pulse oximeters is recycled.