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

Hospitals are increasingly seeking opportunities to purchase food from local and diverse farmers and food businesses in order to align their food service operations with their mission to serve and support the health of their communities. This webinar will introduce you to Practice Greenhealth’s local and equitable food purchasing guidance and resources. Hackensack Meridian Health will share 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.

 

CleanMed 2024: 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.

CleanMed 2024: 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.

CleanMed 2024 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.

CleanMed 2024 closing plenary: Charting a course for climate resilience, equity & mitigation

Date range
May 23, 2024
partners-only event
Description

In the ever-evolving health care landscape, the imperative to pioneer tangible solutions that encompass resilience, equity, and mitigation within organizations has reached a critical juncture. Yet, navigating this multifaceted terrain remains a formidable challenge. In this plenary, an esteemed panel of speakers will shed light on the intricacies underlying these challenges, including the pervasive presence of departmental silos within the health sector and the erosion of trust between communities and health care entities.

CleanMed 2024: 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.

CleanMed 2024: Sustainability - An emerging dimension of clinical decision making

Date range
May 22, 2024
partners-only event
Description
Through interactive cases, hear how clinicians’ day-to-day decisions drive health care’s environmental impact and how decisions made early in clinical care planning can mitigate environmental harms.

CleanMed 2024: Learning from the local landscape: Building equity, climate resilience & community well being

Date range
May 22, 2024
partners-only event
Description

This dynamic session explores Salt Lake City basin's deep challenges with poor air quality and the realities of a changing climate. Moderated by leaders from the area's premier health care systems, this plenary features insights from a panel of leaders at the forefront of public and environmental health and community advocacy. They share how they are addressing these challenges, what they see as critical issues in the coming years, and how they can partner with health care to improve environmental sustainability, address environmental injustices, and promote health equity.

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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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