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The Destination CleanMed series features discussions building momentum that will culminate in Kansas City May 10-12 for CleanMed 2022. Register now and invite your colleagues, collaborators, and partners to this free event.
Join us March 17, 2022 12:00-1:30 p.m. ET for a session on Climate-smart health system strategies.
In 2020 and 2021, health systems across the country were challenged to care for their communities in the face of record-breaking heat waves, floods, hurricanes, and wildfires brought on by the climate crisis, alongside the coronavirus pandemic. At the… Read More
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Learn and network with new affiliate premium partners
Join Practice Greenhealth on March 9 at 11:00 a.m. ET as we kick off our 2022 partner forum series with B. Braun, Stericycle, and other affiliate premium partners. These quarterly, interactive education and networking events provide our affiliate partners – manufacturers, suppliers, service providers, or other supply chain partners – a chance to introduce, share, and spark conversations and solutions with the larger Practice Greenhealth network.
What attendees can expect:
Featured partners sharing information about their companies’… Read More
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We are pleased to share Practice Greenhealth’s latest sustainability benchmark report, based on data from the 2022 calendar year.
The 370 hospitals that contributed data collectively saved more than $197.4 million on sustainability initiatives in 2022, while pushing the market for more environmentally preferable products and materials with more than $939.7 million in sustainable spending..
These hospitals reduced more than 389.6 million kBtus of energy, saved 97.1 million gallons of water, diverted over 264.1 million pounds of waste from the landfill through recycling, and avoided 273,977… Read More
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This Partner-only session will summarize key lessons gathered from Practice Greenhealth partners on the most effective ways to write climate resilience plans in alignment with the HHS Health Sector Climate Pledge. Planners from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Seattle Children’s will share takeaways from their climate resilience planning processes and perspectives on the value and the future of their plans.
Tuesday, Feb. 13 | 3 p.m. ET / 12 p.m. PT
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Join this Destination CleanMed session to gain a better understanding of how purchasing occurs at health systems and strategies for effectively engaging supply chain departments. Then hear from Vancouver Coastal Health about their Reusables First project – an effort to prioritize the purchase of reusable or reprocessable products over single-use ones to minimize waste and reduce environmental impact – which they carried out in close partnership with their supply chain.
Feb. 7, 2024 | 3 p.m. ET / 12 p.m. PT
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Validate your hard work and continue making the business case for sustainability initiatives by participating in Practice Greenhealth’s Environmental Excellence Awards program.
The awards application process and resulting benchmark report provide practical insights to help your organization develop sustainability baselines, compare performance to industry benchmarks, identify key areas of opportunity, and earn recognition for your sustainability efforts.
Applications are due April 10, 2024.
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For the awards tools, resources, and frequently… Read More
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We need opinions from health care procurement and supply chain professionals.
Health care sustainability is changing more quickly than ever before, as are how procurement and supply chain professionals are seeking guidance and learning opportunities.
Whether you are familiar with the work of Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth or not, we need the input of professionals doing the work to strengthen our goal to drive policies and markets for ethically produced, healthy, sustainable products and services. To that end, we’re conducting research on how professionals like you prefer… Read More
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Long commutes. Congested roads. No available parking. These are familiar headaches for staff, patients, and administration at almost every hospital and health care facility, including St. John’s Medical and Living Center in Jackson, Wyo. A parking space there costs $10,000 per year to manage and maintain. Instead of building additional parking spaces, the hospital chose instead to pay their employees to “liberate their parking space” from May through September 2018.
“We set a goal to reduce the employee drive-alone rate 3% over the summer months,” explains Lisa Smith, the facility's… Read More
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New report provides first-ever estimate of health care’s global climate footprint, calls for zero emissions
If the global health care sector were a country, it would be the fifth-largest greenhouse gas emitter on the planet, according to Health care’s climate footprint: How the health sector contributes to the global climate crisis and opportunities for action, a new report by Health Care Without Harm in collaboration with Arup.
Establishing the first-ever estimate of health care’s global climate footprint, the report finds health care’s footprint is equivalent to 4.4% of global net… Read More
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Chef Michael White is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and has been a chef with Sodexo for more than 15 years. White cooks for Regions Hospital in Minnesota.
The Health Care Culinary Contest is back, and chefs across the country are getting ready to compete.
In 2017, U.S. health care food service professionals submitted their best delicious and healthy recipes. Entrants embodied the less meat, better meat philosophy, highlighted local and sustainable sourcing stories, and engaged clinician sponsors to source and serve a meal that is healthy for people and the… Read More
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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 1,500 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.