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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.
Health care has never had so many financing mechanisms for building decarbonization, but the pathway for leveraging these tools is complex. Presenters share stories from two health systems to highlight pathways for identifying finance approaches for decarbonization. The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center case study reviews how green building design standards led to an improved ASC prototype and how they… Read More
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This event occurred as part of CleanMed 2024. For information about CleanMed, the premier national conference for leaders in health care sustainability, visit CleanMed.org.
Hospitals across the country are finding new ways to lean into their role as anchor institutions, including exciting strategies to create clean energy while reducing utility costs for community members. "Community solar" allows hospitals to reduce emissions through solar power and provide community access to solar benefits through a subscription-based program. Since community solar developers require the inclusion of… Read More
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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.
Federal health systems are diverse in terms of both the patients they serve and the agencies that govern their operations, but they are all required to meet the same waste reduction, energy efficiency, and green procurement benchmarks. Federal health systems are often leaders on sustainability within the health care space, but how they achieve those benchmarks has historically varied, without much exchange between… Read More
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By collecting and analyzing data on a wide range of factors – including energy and resource use, GHG emissions, waste, supply chain performance, and more – hospitals can generate the deep insights they need to guide their sustainability initiatives and improve their resource efficiency. 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. Facilitators also guided participants through a series of interactive exercises to develop… Read More
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By collecting and analyzing data on a wide range of factors – including energy and resource use, GHG emissions, waste, supply chain performance, and more – hospitals can generate the deep insights they need to guide their sustainability initiatives and improve their resource efficiency. Measurement is one of the keys to management, and data empowers leaders to make decisions based on facts, trends, and statistics.
Join this 90 minute session to learn about goal setting, data governance, and developing baseline data. Facilitators will also guide participants through a series of interactive… Read More
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