Kathy Gerwig Biography

Kathy Gerwig Kaiser Permanente’s vice president for Workplace Safety and environmental stewardship officer testified Tuesday March 9 before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Superfund Toxics and Environment about Kaiser Permanente’s efforts to curb the use of potentially toxic chemicals.
Kathy Gerwig Kaiser Permanente's vice president for Workplace Safety and environmental stewardship officer
The Committee is reviewing the Toxic Substances Control Act or TSCA and is looking to organizations such as Kaiser Permanente for lessons learned regarding the environment health and the impact of potentially toxic substances. The law has not been amended since it was created in 1976.
The testimony is timely because subcommittee Chairman Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) is expected to introduce a reform bill soon.
Kaiser Permanente has been working for years to curb its environmental impact and improve the health of the communities it serves by using safer chemicals building greener hospitals reducing waste purchasing locally grown food and using less energy. The organization is also taking the initiative to “green” the health care industry by leveraging its purchasing power. For example the organization was the first health system in the United States to contract for patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) sets that are totally free of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and DEHP. PVC is a major source of dioxin a known human carcinogen. Numerous animal studies indicate that DEHP a plasticizer often used in medical products may cause reproductive harm and cancer.

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