Sustainability solutions for health care
Practice Greenhealth is the leading membership and networking organization for sustainable health care, delivering environmental solutions to hospitals and health systems across the United States.
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Buildings
Promote green and healthy health care facility design, construction, renovation and operations in order to minimize environmental impacts and foster restorative and sustainable healing environments.
Read moreChemicals
Work with health care to eliminate harmful chemicals or substitute them with safer alternatives while minimizing chemical exposure of patients, health care workers, communities, and the environment.
Read moreClimate and Health
Health systems and health professionals are implementing business-smart initiatives that also protect their communities from increased diseases and more frequent extreme weather events caused by climate change.
Read MoreEnergy
Accelerate the implementation of energy efficiency while promoting clean, renewable energy in health care, mobilizing the sector as a leader for a healthy energy future for all.
Read moreEngaged Leadership
Almost 90 percent of the top-performing institutions in our sustainability benchmark report have an executive-level champion at the top of the reporting structure.
Read moreFood
Promote, purchase, and serve sustainably grown, healthy food to improve environmental health, build better food systems, and address the upstream social and economic determinants of non-communicable diseases.
Read MoreGreening the OR
Though a tiny percentage of a hospital’s total physical footprint, operating rooms can drive big facilities’ cost savings and efficiency improvements through smart, incremental, sustainable practices.
Read MoreSustainable Procurement
Sustainability professionals and purchasing managers should work together to embed sustainability into purchasing processes and engage suppliers to provide innovative, sustainable products with a reduced impact on human health and the environment.
Read MoreTransportation
Promote transportation strategies for patients, their families, and staff that support healthier local and regional transport systems while reducing health care's environmental impact.
Read MoreWaste
Promote zero waste policies, reduce the volume and toxicity of waste produced by the health care sector, and implement safe, sustainable disposal options as alternatives to incineration.
Read MoreWater
Reducing water consumption is a great place for hospitals and health systems to start improving their environmental impact and sustainability practices.
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NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Health Care Culinary Contest is back
Health care culinary professionals across the country are taking their menus to new levels in creativity and flavor, all powered by plants. The contest runs from Oct. 1 to Nov. 30.
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Supercharge your climate resilience planning
Practice Greenhealth and Health Care Without Harm collaborated with a cohort of health systems to co-create brand-new guidance to assist organizations engaged in any stage of the resilience planning process. Plus, join our staff in a quick tour of the guidance and share real-time barriers in your planning efforts with your peers.
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2025 Environmental Excellence Awards: Applications now open
Participating in the Environmental Excellence Awards program validates your hard work and allows you to share your successes with the Practice Greenhealth network. Listen to a program overview or learn about what's new with the application process, or attend one of the info sessions. The deadline is April 9, 2025.
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News & Updates
Coolfood champions meet – & surpass – GHG plate reduction goals
130 hospitals – and counting – have signed the Coolfood Pledge, an international, cross-sector effort to achieve food-related greenhouse gas reduction. Several hospitals and health systems have already met or even surpassed the goal of 38% per plate GHG reduction, with a 15.7% average reduction – and some Practice Greenhealth partners have achieved as much as a 54% reduction. Check out the champions
Read More2025 Environmental Excellence Awards: Applications now open
Participating in the Environmental Excellence Awards program validates your hard work and allows you to share your successes with the Practice Greenhealth network. Listen to a program overview or lear...
Read MoreA new chapter: Paul Bogart to depart as Executive Director of Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth
It is with a mix of sadness and gratitude that we announce Paul Bogart’s departure as Executive Director of Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth, effective summer 2025. Since 2011, P...
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