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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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The food page of the Environmental Excellence Awards application not only helps tell your story, but quantifies the results of your work to promote a sustainable, equitable, climate-friendly food system. The questions align with global and national goals, and reflect Practice Greenhealth's partnerships with leading organizations, such as the World Resource Institute, the Healthcare Anchor Network, and ReFED.
John Stoddard, Associate Director of Climate and Food Solutions, and Katie Pittman, Awards Program Manager, walked through the food data collected in the application and explained what… Read More
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2024 was a landmark year for The Joint Commission, which launched its first domestic Sustainable Healthcare Certification, along with the first-ever international Healthcare Sustainability Certification. The Domestic Certification has motivated 120 hospitals to demonstrate sustainability successes from leadership and oversight to assessment, measurement, and improvement tactics. Hospitals applying for the certificate must share greenhouse gas reduction strategies across chosen categories of buildings and energy, transportation, anesthetic gases and inhalers, and waste. Learn more about the… Read More
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Listen for quick, digestible advice on performing a complete greenhouse gas inventory. This 75-minute real-time solutions forum gave partners tips and tricks no matter where they were on their journey. This forum specifically covered Scope 1 (direct emissions).
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Listen for quick, digestible advice on performing a complete greenhouse gas inventory. This 75-minute real-time solutions forum gave partners tips and tricks no matter where they were on their journey. This forum specifically covered Scope 2 (indirect emissions from purchased energy).
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Join our expert, Keith Edgerton, for digestible advice on calculating a complete greenhouse gas inventory. This 75-minute real-time solutions forum gave partners tips and tricks from other Practice Greenhealth partners. This forum specifically covered Scope 3 categories 1 (purchased goods and services), 2 (capital goods), and 3 (fuel- and energy-related activities).
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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.
Sponsored by Cardinal Health
The importance of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) in health care is multi-faceted and covers a wide range of principles. Presenters share a supplier’s approach to scaling ESG initiatives – including how partnering with customers helps to deliver on mutual goals – as well as evolving regulatory and market pressures, how to prioritize ESG initiatives to maximize impact,… 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.
Three health system sustainability managers describe their organizations’ sustainability journeys, offering insights on how to engage and manage stakeholder expectations, build momentum, increase program visibility, and create effective governance structures.
Using Practice Greenhealth’s Program Fundamentals and Effective Governance toolkits as frameworks, presenters discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the… 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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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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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.