International Journal of Advances in Engineering & Technology, Nov. 2013. ©IJAET ISSN: 22311963 1988 Vol. 6, Issue 5, pp. 1988-1994 CREATING A GREEN HOSPITAL CONCEPT THROUGH THE MANAGEMENT OF NON-MEDICAL WASTE Edy Suwasono 1 , Agus Suman 2 , Soemarno 3 , Bagyo Yanuwiadi 4 1 Doctoral Program of Environment and Development Studies, Graduate School, University of Brawijaya, Indonesia. 2 Economic Development Department, Faculty of Economic and Business, University of Brawijaya, Indonesia. 3 Soil Science Departments, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Brawijaya, Indonesia. 4 Biology Departments, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Brawijaya, Indonesia. . ABSTRACT 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. K EYWORDS: Management of non-medical waste, patients’ comfort, patients’ satisfaction, and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). I. INTRODUCTION Nowadays, many hospitals in some countries in the world change their management process into better services and sustainable operational. It is in line with vision of the society in the world to support the development of any aspects, including health. Hagland (1993) stated that hot issues related to the responsibility of hospital to support the environment to be better had been already discussed since 1990s [10]. Right now, hospitals give more attention to the environment because it gives direct contribution to the patients and whole society members [8, 9, 12]. It can be said that hospital is a basic and significant infrastructure urgently needed for health and people in common. At this moment, hospital is not only focusing on health but also becoming health services industry that can give contribution for potential human resource, increases efficient services, uses friendly material, lessens energy usage, and uses non-pollutant and toxic. Bedford Hospital is one of the hospitals that use principles of sustainable development with some basic aspects management and operational, such as adopts Good Corporate Citizen model, develops the relationship with local stakeholder, and follows the rules about environment policies in England [3]. In this time, hospital management has claimed integratively that gardens in hospital are very important for health therapy (Healing garden) [15].