Practice Greenhealth

Procurement with impact: Prioritizing sustainable & diverse vendors

Date range
January 23, 2025, 2 pm ET (11 am PT)
Description
This session highlighted success stories and lessons learned from health systems prioritizing spending with diverse, sustainable, and high-impact vendors. Procurement strategies will be highlighted at CleanMed in Atlanta on May 6-8, 2025, and this session is your chance for a sneak peek of what you can expect.

Affiliate premium partner forum featuring Ecolab & ODP Business Solutions

Date range
December 11, 2024, 11 am ET (8 am PT)
partners-only event
Description
Affiliate premium partners Ecolab and ODP Business Solutions share their sustainability efforts to spark new conversations and collaborative opportunities.

Enhance your climate resilience plan with new guidance

Date range
November 19, 2024, 1 pm ET (10 am PT)
Description
This session will provide an overview of health care climate resilience planning basics and share new concepts and elements for inclusion in existing climate resilience plans.

Food purchasing to support environmental sustainability and climate mitigation

Date range
October 29, 2024, 3 pm ET (12 pm PT)
partners-only event
Description
This webinar will introduce you to Practice Greenhealth’s sustainable food purchasing guidance and resources. Stanford Health will share how they have applied our guidance to reduce environmental impact, and their community collaborators will share tips and impacts of their partnership.

Solutions for common GHG inventory obstacles

Date range
October 9, 2024, 2 pm ET (11 am PT)
partners-only event
Description
Join this 90-minute workshop to learn how other Practice Greenhealth partners have conducted their GHG inventories.

Leveraging hospital food purchasing to support local economies

Date range
August 7, 2024, 1 pm ET (10 am PT)
partners-only event
Description
This webinar introduces you to Practice Greenhealth’s local and equitable food purchasing guidance and resources. Hackensack Meridian Health shared how they applied our guidance and the resulting impacts experienced by their community collaborator The CommonMarket.

Quickstart tutorial: Health Care Emissions Impact Calculator 2.0

Date range
July 31, 2024, 2 pm ET (11 am PT)
partners-only event
Description

Join our expert Keith Edgerton for a 75-minute tutorial on the calculator's new features. Bring your questions, and learn how your organization can benefit from these improvements.

 

Funding & financing mechanisms for decarbonization projects

Date range
May 23, 2024
partners-only event
Description
Listen to stories about how two health systems have tackled the challenges associated with financing decarbonization for buildings.

Generating clean energy & cost savings through community solar

Date range
May 23, 2024
partners-only event
Description
Representatives from EPA and Boston Medical Center share exciting stories and strategies about how to use community solar programs to create clean energy while reducing utility costs for health care facilities and community members.

Attracting, retaining & engaging staff through sustainability culture

Date range
May 23, 2024
partners-only event
Description
See how strategic staff recruitment and engagement models at three academic medical centers attract and retain top talent, address resource gaps, and promote a sustainable culture.

Cardinal Health Solution Session: Implementing effective ESG strategies in health care

Date range
May 23, 2024
partners-only event
Description
Learn how to develop and implement effective ESG strategies in the health care setting, including evolving regulatory and market pressures, how to prioritize ESG initiatives to maximize impact, building internal support, smarter procurement practices, and how your organization can utilize reprocessing to reduce its environmental impact and save money.

Closing plenary: Charting a course for climate resilience, equity & mitigation

Date range
May 23, 2024
partners-only event
Description

This event event occurred as part of CleanMed 2024. For information about CleanMed, the premier national conference for leaders in health care sustainability, visit CleanMed.org.

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Practice Greenhealth is the health care sector’s go-to source for information, tools, data, resources, and expert technical support on sustainability initiatives that help hospitals and health systems meet their health, financial, and community goals.

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Who We Are

Practice Greenhealth is the leading sustainable health care organization, delivering environmental solutions to more than 1,500 hospitals and health systems in the United States and Canada. Partnership opportunities include hospitals, health systems, community health organizations, NGOs, nonprofits, government, academic institutions, and the health care value chain.