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Collaborative for Healthcare Action to Reduce MedTech Emissions (CHARME)
CHARME is an initiative convening 40 health systems, medical device and equipment suppliers, distributors, GPOs, and industry experts and stakeholders to define, implement, and champion best practices to reduce emissions from the MedTech supply chain.
In June 2026, CHARME will begin a second 2-year phase to deepen and expand work within circularity, resource stewardship, renewable energy, and transportation and logistics.
CHARME addresses a gap in current initiatives focused on health sector supply chain sustainability. Greenhouse gas emissions from medical devices and supplies account for 7% of the health sector’s US footprint.
Multi-stakeholder collaboration is needed to decarbonize at the pace and scale required, and working together provides efficiencies and innovation no single company can achieve alone.
Cross-disciplinary teams of sustainability, finance, supply chain, product management, engineering, marketing, clinical, and infection prevention leaders work together through CHARME to implement actions along a 24-month decarbonization roadmap defined in the white paper Catalyzing Collective Action to Decarbonize Healthcare Roadmap for Health Systems and MedTech Suppliers, published in May 2023 with input from over 30 organizations.
CHARME participants members are currently working collaboratively across five focused workstreams – renewable energy, sustainable procurement, product durability, product innovation, and single-use device reprocessing.
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Current CHARME Participants
Co-Chairs
| Kaiser Permanente | Vizient |
Key Supporters
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BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) Cencora GE HealthCare Henry Schein |
Johnson & Johnson McKesson Stryker |
Health Systems and Suppliers *
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Advocate Health Allina Health Ambu American Red Cross Baxter Boston Medical Center Boston Scientific Cardinal Health Innovative Health Legacy Health Mass General Brigham |
Mayo Clinic Medtronic Northwell Health Philips Providence Roche Solventum SSM Health Stanford Health Care |
NGO Partners
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AHRMM Health Care Without Harm Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC) |
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) National Academy of Medicine The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) |
Thanks to the organizations that provided seed funding and sponsorship for this project.
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CHARME is advised by:
The SPLC is proud to serve as CHARME's host organization, bringing key sustainable procurement expertise with a proven track record of building coalitions and supporting organizations as they design and execute meaningful sustainable procurement strategies.