Practice Greenhealth offers guidance to support the awards application process.
Greenhealth Partner for Change Awards scoring resource
The Greenhealth Partner for Change Awards scoring resource offers an overview of the way Practice Greenhealth scores award applications within the Environmental Excellence Awards system.
Adding in details, stories, images and attachments can impact the quality score of the application. This is a great way for applicants to separate themselves and highlight their facility's program.
What's new in 2019
The what's new in 2019 presentation is a snapshot of updates to questions on each of the award application pages for the 2019 Practice Greenhealth Partner for Change application. This document is intended to help applicants quickly identify any changes to the application structure.
2019 Environmental Excellence Award PDFs
Blank versions of the 2019 Environmental Excellence Award applications are available below to use as an assessment tool to help department leads familiarize themselves with data gathering for the awards applications.
Practice Greenhealth encourages facilities to identify leads from appropriate departments to begin considering application data needs, responses, and updates.
Each year, Practice Greenhealth works with subject matter experts and key stakeholders to ensure the accuracy and appropriateness of questions and data collected within the applications.
Please note: These documents will not be accepted as the application. The PDFs are only meant to assist in the beginning of the process. All applications must be submitted through the award system at awards.practicegreenhealth.org.
- 2019 Partner for Change application - For facilities with overnight beds and operating rooms (acute care and critical access hospitals)
- 2019 Partner for Change (long-term care) application - For facilities with overnight beds and no operating rooms (long-term care, psych or rehab hospitals)
- 2019 Partner for Change (outpatient care facility) application - For facilities with no overnight beds (outpatient care facilities, stand-alone laboratories, blood banks, or clinics)
- 2019 Partner Recognition application - For facilities with overnight beds and operating rooms (acute care and critical access hospitals)
- 2019 Partner Recognition (outpatient care facility) application - For facilities with no overnight beds (outpatient care facilities, stand-alone laboratories, blood banks, or clinics)
- 2019 System for Change application - For health systems
Frequently asked questions
This resource offers step-by-step instructions addressing frequently asked questions about starting and completing an award application.
Data 101 webinar series
Accurate data is critical in receiving the value of the process. To meet that need, Practice Greenhealth recorded a series of Data 101 calls to walk sustainability teams and data analysts through the data collection protocol for key performance areas. Access these recordings 24/7 to help maximize data integrity and to understand how to calculate normalizers so the data is best able to support ongoing efforts.
Further assistance
Contact Awards Assistance at awards@practicegreenhealth.org or 888-378-2259 or your Practice Greenhealth member engagement liaison with questions about preparing for the awards process or using these tools.
