Practice Greenhealth announces 2025 Environmental Excellence Awards recipients

Leading U.S. hospitals recognized for transforming health care's response to the climate crisis

RESTON, VA (DATE) – We are living through a historic convergence of global crises. Among them, the climate crisis stands as humanity's most urgent and widespread health threat – and also the greatest opportunity in a century to advance public health. Health care, with its healing mission and responsibility to protect community well-being, must lead the way toward a sustainable, low-carbon, and resilient future.

Practice Greenhealth is proud to announce the recipients of the 2025 Environmental Excellence Awards, the nation's highest honor for health care facilities demonstrating leadership in sustainability, environmental stewardship, and climate resilience. This year, 496 health care organizations are being recognized for embracing this transformational moment.

Among them, the Top 25 Environmental Excellence Award honorees stand out for exemplary performance and innovation in sustainability that is transforming the future of health care. These recipients are proving that increased health care demand doesn't need to result in an increased burden on climate.

"Our Top 25 awardees reflect a powerful movement in health care,” said Shanda Demorest, Senior Director of Network Experience & Solutions at Practice Greenhealth. “By adopting clean energy, reducing waste, designing climate-resilient infrastructure, and engaging frontline communities, these facilities are proving that environmental responsibility and health care excellence go hand in hand.

The 2025 Top 25 awardees, selected for their exceptional and holistic environmental programs, are (in alphabetical order):

• Advocate Christ Medical Center and Advocate Children's Hospital - Oak Lawn
• Advocate Condell Medical Center*
• Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• Boston Medical Center
• Hackensack Meridian Bayshore Medical Center
• Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center
• Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center
• HealthPartners Hudson Hospital & Clinic
• HealthPartners Regions Hospital
• Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford*
• Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Providence St. Patrick Hospital
• Providence Swedish Medical Center - Cherry Hill
• Providence Swedish Medical Center - Edmonds*
• Providence Swedish Medical Center - First Hill
• Providence Swedish Medical Center - Issaquah
• Seattle Children'
• Stanford Health Care*
• Stony Brook University Hospital
• The University of Vermont Medical Center
• UC San Diego Health - Hillcrest Medical Center*
• UC San Diego Health - Jacobs Medical Center*
• UCI Health*
• University of Michigan Health - Michigan Medicine*

*First time appearing on the Top 25 list

These organizations span the continuum of care, from urban academic medical centers to rural critical access facilities. They are leveraging their respected voices, purchasing power, investments, and other assets to move markets toward environmentally safer products and technologies, while partnering with frontline communities to ensure solutions advance both environmental and health equity.

The climate crisis demands a systemic response, and these hospitals are part of a growing global network of climate champions. Health care organizations are encouraged to join the Health Sector CARES Pledge – a voluntary commitment to build climate resilience and reduce environmental impact across the sector.

Practice Greenhealth – the health care sector's go-to source for information, tools, data, resources, and expert technical support on sustainability – stands ready to guide hospitals and health systems through this critical journey to decarbonize and build climate resilience.

About Practice Greenhealth 
Practice Greenhealth is the leading sustainable health care organization, delivering environmental solutions to more than 1,700 hospitals and health systems in the United States and Canada. Partnership opportunities include NGOs, nonprofits, government, academic institutions, and the health care value chain.

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