CREATING A GREEN HOSPITAL CONCEPT THROUGH THE MANAGEMENT OF NON-MEDICAL WASTE

The management of non-medical waste in hospital and its environment to create Green Hospital is really needed by ‘consumer ’ of health industries. The objective of this research was to know the correlation between the management of non-medical waste and the patients ’ comfort and satisfaction in hospital. Furthermore, this research is to know the effect of the Green Hospital concept to the patients ’ comfort and satisfaction. This research was done in Pare Public Hospital (RSUD Pare) in Kediri regency, East Java, Indonesia. The research method was using survey and giving questionnaire to the respondents as primary data. Data analysis of this research used SEM (Structural Equation Modeling). The result of research showed that the management of non-medical waste in hospital and its environment in creating Green Hospital concept gives positive influence and significantly gives comfort and satisfaction for patients. Thus, the direct effect was significantly gives comfort to the patients