Practice Greenhealth

Events

Sustainable procurement 101: A learning hub for sustainable sourcing (April)

Date range
April 17, 2025, 2 pm ET (11 am PT)
partners-exclusive
Description
Join this quarterly interactive gathering to gain the knowledge and skills to incorporate sustainability into your procurement practices. This session focused on creating a sustainable procurement strategy, using key resources to assess and set SMART goals, and how to take steps to gain internal support.

Practice Greenhealth’s policy pulse

Date range
March 26, 2025, 4 pm ET (1 pm PT)
partners-exclusive
Description
Join our 30-minute monthly partners-exclusive forums to stay informed about the latest climate and environmental policy trends impacting health care sustainability. Our in-house policy experts will share emerging challenges and opportunities, and you will leave with your most pressing questions answered.

Harnessing policy to advance your sustainability efforts

Date range
March 20, 2025, 3 pm ET (12 pm PT)
partners-exclusive
Description
Listen to all the ways policy advocacy plays a role in advancing your sustainability efforts. Hear from BMC and Providence, members of the U.S. Health Care Climate Council, about their experiences and how to engage internal teams, such as communications and government affairs, on sustainability policy opportunities.

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.

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.

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.

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.