The situation of hospitals in what concerns the management of environmental aspects and impacts has been an issue widely discussed by several researchers, due to the serious problems regarding the treatment of the waste and the lack of knowledge about it. Hospital waste makes the deficiencies in such organizational structures increase since there is an increasing number of patients and shortage of supplies that make it impossible to satisfy the necessities of the population. Thus, the present article aims at evaluating how hospitals deal with environmental impacts. It was used a methodology named GAIA (The Management of Environmental Aspects and Impacts), through semistructured interviews and lists of verification applied in a case study of a hospital. After the analysis of the results, the classification of sustainability of some criteria is verified, such as furnishers, eco efficiency of the hospital procedures, the treatment of patients, management indicators and the priorization of environmental aspects and impacts. The latter item involves the assessment of activities and commercial and environmental concerns.
management; environmental aspects and impacts; hospital
