Journal of Service Science and Management, 2015, 8, 259-266 Published Online April 2015 in SciRes. http://www.scirp.org/journal/jssm http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jssm.2015.82029 How to cite this paper: Azar, F.E., Farzianpour, F., Foroushani, A.R., Badpa, M. and Azmal, M. (2015) Evaluation of Green Hospital Dimensions in Teaching and Private Hospitals Covered by Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Journal of Service Science and Management, 8, 259-266. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jssm.2015.82029 Evaluation of Green Hospital Dimensions in Teaching and Private Hospitals Covered by Tehran University of Medical Sciences Farbod Ebadi Azar 1 , Fereshteh Farzianpour 2* , Abbas Rahimi Foroushani 3 , Mahnaz Badpa 4 , Mohammad Azmal 5 1 Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Management, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2 Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4 Health Services Management, Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 5 Health Services Management, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran Email: * farzianp@sina.tums.ac.ir Received 15 January 2015; accepted 27 April 2015; published 30 April 2015 Copyright © 2015 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract “Green Hospital” has been emerged as an approach to address environmental challenges and meet the needs of society. The aim of this study was to evaluate the components of the Green Hospital in Teaching and Private Hospitals covered by Tehran University of Medical Sciences. The present study is a descriptive-analytical which examines the elements of the green hospital at 19 teaching and private hospitals covered by Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2013. The checklist was developed by the Centre for Environmental Sciences Augsburg Germany which translated by Ira- nian Green’s Management Association. The checklist consisted of eight Green Hospital dimensions which were used for data collection. Descriptive statistics measures including frequency tables mean and range and analytical statistics such as independent t-tests and analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used for data analysis. The studied hospitals have earned 59.5 percent of total points. In this regard, the dimensions of “environmental leadership and management” have rated the highest and water management is in the lowest rating. Although private hospitals had earned higher scores in all aspects of green hospitals apart from management and leadership and chemi- cals compared with teaching hospitals, but there wasn’t any significant difference between these dimensions and types of hospitals statistically. Given that the hospitals studied do not meet green * Corresponding author.