Sustainability/Sustainable

Baldrige Health Care Glossary

Sustainability/Sustainable

The term “sustainability” refers to your organization’s ability to address current organizational needs and to have the agility and strategic management to prepare successfully for your future organizational, market, and operating environment. Both external and internal factors need to be considered. The specific combination of factors might include health care-wide and organization-specific components.

Sustainability considerations might include workforce capability and capacity, resource availability, technology, knowledge, core competencies, work systems, facilities, and equipment. In addition, sustainability also has a component related to preparedness for real-time or short-term emergencies.

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