The Green Environmental Management Systems (GEMS) Program represents a systematic approach to environmental management, providing a framework to weave existing environmental programs into VHA's Environment of Care management processes, which enables the organization to achieve continual improvement in performance. Within the Environment of Care Program, the GEMS Guidebook will provide for environmental regulatory compliance and conformance with VHA policy and Executive Order 13148. This is a link to the Web-based version dated March 2004 with updates as of April 2005.
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