March 24, 2021 – Vizient, Inc. (Irving, TX) announced a strategic partnership with My Green Lab, a global nonprofit organization dedicated to laboratory sustainability to lower the environmental impact of laboratory supplies in the clinical lab space.
Through the partnership, Vizient will begin developing standards, based on input from its suppliers and member hospitals, for its clinical lab portfolio of products.
Vizient expects to begin using these standards in its bid process for vendors and distributors by the end of 2021.
Vizient launched its Environmentally Preferred Sourcing program in 2017 to help healthcare providers easily access a wide array of products that are safe for patients and caregivers while minimizing environmental impact.
In 2018, My Green Lab launched the first eco-label for laboratory products, ACT (Accountability, Consistency and Transparency). Since then, the program has grown to nearly 500 products from 10 manufacturers and is scaling rapidly, Vizient says.
“Vizient has been working to create industry alignment between suppliers of products used in medical laboratories and in our member hospitals, and this is the next step in that journey,” said Mellissa Nguyen, senior program services manager, Environmentally Preferred Sourcing, Vizient. “This collaboration will accelerate the work necessary to enable Vizient members to easily identify laboratory supplies within the Vizient portfolio that are environmentally friendly, thus offering a new level of protection for laboratorians in those environments.”