Toward Green Hospital Standards in Yazd Educational Hospitals in 2013

ISO 14000 standards series can increase competitiveness, productivity, and hospitals’ credibility and reduce costs and lead environmental management syst-ems into green hospitals with low impact on the environment. This study aims to dete-rmine solutions of meeting green hospital standards in Yazd educational hospitals based on ISO 14000 standards series in 2013. This research is an applied, descriptive study carried out in 2013. The study population included Yazd educational hospitals. Using a ques-tionnaire, the required data were collected based on variables of environmental man-agement system in hospitals.The content validity was approved regarding the design and quantification of instrument while reliability was confirmed by pre-test using Cronbah alpha Coefficient as 0.9314. The SPSS software (version 16.0) was used for statistical analysis. Based on results of this research, comparing ten variables on green hospital management in four Yazd educational hospitals with hypothetical average (3) using one sample t-test indicated that there is no significant difference among four educational hospitals (P = 0.734 CI = 95%). Furthermore, results of Kruskal-Wallis test demonstrated a significant difference am-ong the hospitals (P = 0.035 CI=95%). Finally, HCA technique resulted in clusteringsimilar questions in line with their corresponding answers. Discussion and The findings of this research showed that inadequate attention to environmental strategies, ina-dequate environmental training, improper management of wastes, inadequate allocate-on of fund for the management of wast-ewater and emission of pollutants into the air are the most important obstacles in achieving green hospital standards in Yazd educational hospitals and developing ma-nagement strategies and their imple-mentation by continuous training seems essential. Keywords: