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2017 Award Winners
The 2017 Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellence Award winners were honored at the Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellence Awards Gala on the evening of May 18 in conjunction CleanMed 2017 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Congratulations to the winners.
Top 25 Environmental Excellence Award Honorees
Circles of Excellence Honorees
Greenhealth Emerald Award Honorees
Greenhealth Partner for Change Award Honorees
System for Change Award Honorees
Greening the OR Leadership Award Winner
Greening the OR Recognition Award Honorees
Making Medicine Mercury Free Award… Read More
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Health care’s opportunity
Our mission is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint and becomes an anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health and justice.
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Greenhealth Partner for Change Awards scoring resource
The Greenhealth Partner for Change Awards scoring resource offers an overview of the way Practice Greenhealth scores award applications within the Environmental Excellence Awards system.
Adding in details, stories, images and attachments can impact the quality score of the application. This is a great way for applicants to separate themselves and highlight their facility's program.
What's new in 2019
The what's new in 2019 presentation is a snapshot of updates to questions on each of the award application pages for the 2019 Practice… Read More
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Helping hospitals provide diners more of what they want while slashing food-related greenhouse gas emissions.
Across the country, clinicians and medical associations are extolling the health benefits of plant-forward eating, and hospitals are responding by reducing meat and increasing plant-centered menu options. Learn what it takes to become a pledge signatory and give diners more of what they want while slashing food-related emissions, saving costs, and improving health by watching the short video above.
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Every day, patients and workers are exposed to a wide array of chemicals in hospitals and health care facilities. Many of these chemicals have been shown to have a lasting negative impact on individual health, public health, and the environment.
Resilient flooring has a big impact on the indoor environment and on the employee and patient experience in your facility. Choosing healthier flooring can:
Decrease patient, staff, and visitor exposures to harmful chemicals that have links to asthma, cancer, and developmental impacts, among other health effects.
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The Practice Greenhealth website provides proven guidance, sustainability data, tools, and resources across a range of topics and sustainability levels. You will need a website account to access partner-only content.
Not part of the Practice Greenhealth network? Learn more here.
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With 17% of the marketplace, health care wields major purchasing power. This buying clout puts hospitals and health systems in an excellent position to demand safer, healthier, more environmentally-friendly products from vendors.
Yet few environmental standards exist for medical products. As a result, health care supply chain professionals must often go it alone.
Why smarter purchasing?
Hospitals can leverage their collective purchasing power to generate demand for healthier and safer products
The health care sector represents 17 percent of the U.S. marketplace
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Join Practice Greenhealth
Practice Greenhealth is the health care sector’s go-to source for information, tools, data, resources, and expert technical support on sustainability initiatives that help hospitals and health systems meet their health, financial, and community goals.
Who We Are
Practice Greenhealth is the leading sustainable health care organization, delivering environmental solutions to more than 1,700 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.