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Health care access to renewable energy
Procuring renewable energy is a highly impactful step hospitals can take to reduce their carbon footprint and negative health impacts. As the cost of renewables falls, transitioning to renewables can reduce energy costs along with pollution. Practice Greenhealth urges health care facilities to set a goal of 100% renewable electricity by 2030. Renewable energy resources, availability, and policies vary significantly between markets, and every hospital has different needs. There is no one “right” approach to procuring renewable energy.
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Hospitals and health systems around the world are investing in clean, renewable energy to protect the health of their patients and communities, attract and retain top-tier talent, increase the resilience of their operations to disasters, and reduce energy costs and price volatility. Combining renewable energy with electricity storage can help hospitals remain operational during extreme weather or other disruptions to the electric grid.
According to the EPA, renewable energy includes resources that rely on fuel sources that restore themselves over short periods of time and do not diminish.… Read More
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The health care industry is the only sector with health as its core mission. Open 24/7 and buzzing with high-tech, life-saving equipment, hospitals are incredibly energy-intensive facilities, consuming roughly 2.5 times more energy per square foot than a typical commercial office space.
While being used to save lives and improve patient health, this energy is often generated by the combustion of fossil fuels that contribute to pollution, disease, and climate change, which leads to numerous damaging health effects.
Globally, outdoor air pollution kills more than 4.5 million people each year… Read More
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Plant-Forward Future is a curated set of resources from Practice Greenhealth, Health Care Without Harm, and our partners that will help health care facilities set a plant-forward goal, menu, and market plant-forward dishes, and track their progress.
HOW-TO GUIDEWHY PLANT-FORWARD?
The resources further below are divided into three categories:
Implementation. There are multiple strategies a health care facility can use to implement a plant-forward dining program. Top strategies include: increasing the number and variety of plant-forward dishes, improving the taste and appearance of plant-… Read More
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Plant-forward is a style of cooking and eating that emphasizes and celebrates, but is not limited to, foods from plant sources – fruits and vegetables (produce), whole grains, legumes (pulses), nuts and seeds, plant oils, and herbs and spices – and reflects evidence-based principles of health and sustainability. – Culinary Institute of America
Plant-forward is the most delicious “quadruple” bottom line approach that health care can take – achieving social, environmental, and financial goals while providing great-tasting food.
Explore why food champions in every profession from chefs to… Read More
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Hospitals care for and heal patients and also protect and promote community health. Sharing information about the risks and health impacts of our changing climate, with an emphasis on a hospital’s plans to address these challenges, is integral to a hospital’s healing mission and can provide the foundation for community-wide sustainability and resiliency efforts.
Gundersen Health System achieved energy independence in 2014 with renewable energy sourced from its community. Gundersen’s CEO Dr. Jeff Thompson explained, “Our board saw the need to make an investment to take care of our community’… Read More
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What is sustainability data?
Sustainability data focuses on resource utilization, including how much energy, water, materials, and waste are you using or generating, how much time you are allocating to your efforts, and how much money you are saving or spending on those efforts.
Why do we need to collect data?
By collecting and analyzing data on a wide range of sustainability-related factors – including energy and resource use, greenhouse gas emissions, and supply chain performance – hospitals will generate the deep insights they need to guide their sustainability-related initiatives and… Read More
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Sustainability leaders must make difficult choices to prioritize the work that matters most to the organization while balancing resource allocation.
The sustainability performance data provided by Practice Greenhealth’s benchmark report cards provide a solid foundation for sustainability goal development. Each hospital’s report card provides an annual snapshot of facility performance on 30 different metrics along with a percentile comparison to other partner hospitals. The report cards include the 90th percentile performance point, highlighting what is achievable for committed hospitals in… Read More
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Validate your hard work and continue making the business case for sustainable operations by participating in the Environmental Excellence Awards program, which is how Practice Greenhealth collects data to help hospitals measure their sustainability performance.
Partner facilities use the awards application and benchmark report results to:
Develop their sustainability baseline, benchmark, and compare performance
Identify key areas of opportunity
Earn recognition for their sustainability program
Applications are closed as of April 12, 2024 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.… Read More
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Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth present Climate Impact Checkup, a unique tool developed for any health care facility in the world to calculate and track its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
This tool provides a comprehensive way for health care facilities worldwide to measure, manage, and support mitigation goals and action planning. It enables health systems and facilities to benchmark their footprint against similar facilities in their country, region, level of complexity and globally while being part of a larger network.
For organizations participating in Race to Zero… Read More
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