The legacy of Healthier Hospitals

Healthier Hospitals (HH) was a great success due to the thousands of hospitals and health systems that committed to the six challenges to improve sustainability performance. It represented a shared leadership around healthier communities and provided hospitals of all sizes with free tools and resources that help focus sustainability efforts on the health care sector's biggest areas of opportunity and risk. Our success is due in large part to the strong partnerships we've formed with health care organizations and other nonprofit organizations. 

In many cases, these challenges helped get sustainability efforts and programs off the ground at participating hospitals. And, we learned a lot from our HH partners and have migrated the HH framework and resources into Practice Greenhealth’s vast inventory of tools for its members.

If you were an HH enrollee and would like more information on Practice Greenhealth resources or are interested in becoming a part of our network, please email us at join@practicegreenhealth.org.

You can find all of the HH resources linked here, including the criteria, guidance documents, and lists of products that meet the HH goals.

• Safer Chemicals
  • Healthy Flooring goal
  • Healthy Flooring product list
  • Healthier Interiors goal
  • Healthier interiors product list 
  • Medical products goal
  • Medical product list 
  • Green cleaning goal 
  • Mercury elimination goal
• Engaged leadership
• Healthier Food
  • Local and sustainable purchasing
  • Less meat
• Leaner Energy
• Less Waste
  • Medical waste
  • Recycling
• Construction and demolition
• Smarter Purchasing

If you have any questions, please contact us. 

If you have an environmentally preferred product that meets Health Care Without Harm’s sustainability criteria, you may be interested in the Greenhealth Approved seal. For more information, please visit the Greenhealth Approved website.