Practice Greenhealth

Environmental Excellence Awards Application: Digesting the food data

Date range
March 5, 2025, 1 pm ET (10 am PT)
partners-exclusive
Description
Listen to our Associate Director of Climate and Food Solutions and Awards Program Manager share the food data requirements of the Environmental Awards Application and explain the rationale behind them.

Procurement with impact: Prioritizing sustainable & diverse vendors

Date range
January 23, 2025, 2 pm ET (11 am PT)
public
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-exclusive
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)
public
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-exclusive
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-exclusive
Description
Northwell Health, SSM Health, and AdventHealth shared strategies to develop strong governance, establish decarbonization goals, and gather and analyze data for a complete GHG inventory. Facilitators rounded out the workshop with some GHG inventory mythbusting. 

Introduction to integrating sustainability into your culture

Date range
September 26, 2024, 1 pm ET (10 am PT)
partners-exclusive
Description
This session identified key stakeholders, communication tools, proven engagement practices, and clinical engagement opportunities. **Counts toward the Accelerating Health Care Sustainability series certificate of completion.

Introduction to sustainability governance

Date range
September 19, 2024, 1 pm ET (10 am PT)
partners-exclusive
Description
Learn all about the basics of sustainability governance, including core documents, structures, staffing, stakeholders, resourcing, and key processes, such as using stakeholder mapping to inform sustainability program structures and strategies to build trust with stakeholders from a system-level perspective.

Introduction to data & goal setting

Date range
September 12, 2024, 1 pm ET (10 am PT)
partners-exclusive
Description
Measurement is one of the keys to management, and data empowers leaders to make decisions based on facts, trends, and statistics. This session covered goal setting, data governance, and developing baseline data. **Counts toward the Accelerating Health Care Sustainability series certificate of completion.

Introduction to securing leadership support

Date range
September 5, 2024, 1 pm ET (10 am PT)
partners-exclusive
Description

Sustainability programs that align with organizational priorities will gain senior leadership’s support and lead to long-term success. Most top-performing health organizations have an executive-level champion at the top of their sustainability reporting structure. This brings credibility and authority to a sustainability program, setting a tone from the top that this work is essential, and so is resourcing it. Acquiring leadership support can sometimes be a tall order.

Leveraging hospital food purchasing to support local economies

Date range
August 7, 2024, 1 pm ET (10 am PT)
partners-exclusive
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-exclusive
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.

 

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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.