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Food service is a powerful but often untapped lever with the potential to improve patient and community health, address diet-related disease, reduce carbon footprints, and build community wealth and resilience. At CleanMed 2022 May 10-12 in Kansas City, hear from experts on how to bring equity and diversity principles into food purchasing and how plant-forward menus and new food waste recovery strategies can help hospitals meet ambitious climate targets.
Attendees of CleanMed will discover the power of food to:
Integrate equity & community into food purchasing
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2022 is the year we accelerate the decarbonization of health care. And CleanMed 2022 offers the strategies we need for moving from commitment to action to impact. Join us May 10-12 in Kansas City, where an incredible lineup of expert speakers will share the many ways you can drive climate solutions within your organization.
Attendees of CleanMed will experience cutting-edge sessions on:
Insights from Biden administration officials on their work to build a low-carbon, more resilient, and more equitable health care system and how leading health systems are modeling climate action.
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At CleanMed 2022 May 10-12 in Kansas City, explore how health care’s collective purchasing power can shape the marketplace, increase demand for sustainable products, and embrace our broader healing mission. Expert speakers offer a roadmap for health care to develop sustainable procurement strategies that prioritize community and environmental health and safety while reducing costs.
Attendees of CleanMed will experience cutting-edge sessions on:
Investing in communities through sustainable procurement
Health care organizations can heal the supply chain and the communities they serve through… Read More
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CleanMed 2022 – the premier event for leaders in health care sustainability – will bring us back together in person May 10-12 in Kansas City. After a challenging couple of years, we can’t wait to convene, connect, share, and build on unprecedented momentum for health sector transformation.
As an advocate and ally of the health care sector, we are committed to the safety of our communities. We’ll be sharing our guiding principles around evidenced-based safety protocols, including vaccines, face coverings, and enhanced cleaning. We continue to monitor the evolving public health guidance… Read More
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John Drigot and Lajju Sudhakar
Sustainability coordinator and Business manager for support services at UCHealth
Number of beds: 1,997 beds
Number of FTE: 26,080
UCHealth's sustainability coordinator John Drigot and business manager for support services Lajju Sudhakar share why they're excited to be part of the Practice Greenhealth network, what they love most about their jobs, and innovations realized during the COVID-19 pandemic that their organization will continue moving forward.
What excites you most about being part of the Practice Greenhealth network?… Read More
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We previously announced the expansion of the Practice Greenhealth network to industry partners by inviting value chain partners like manufacturers, suppliers, service providers, government agencies, nonprofits, and higher education to join.
Our new industry partner levels are affiliate (basic and premium), allied, and academic. Our hospital and health system levels remain the same. Organizations that join as industry partners will gain access to the same exclusive opportunities and resources as our hospital and health system partners.
We’d like to welcome our industry partners to Practice… Read More
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A 2020 Boston Consulting Group (BCG) survey of more than 3,000 people across eight countries has found that in the wake of the pandemic, people are now more concerned – not less – about addressing environmental challenges and are more committed to changing their own behavior to advance sustainability.
These survey results clearly translate to health care.
Implementing sustainability initiatives and climate-smart strategies in health care facilities is challenging work, as those who are leading or involved in these efforts know first-hand. However, we know this work gets a little easier when… Read More
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Presented by Health Care Without Harm in partnership with the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education, this five-part virtual grand rounds series explores strategies to reduce health care emissions and features the leadership of climate-smart clinicians and researchers.
During the sessions participants will learn about:
Strategies to achieve net-zero health care emissions
Opportunities to bring climate-smart health care to the bedside
Emerging research that supports health care decarbonization
Register now for upcoming sessions and view summaries and recordings of past sessions… Read More
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Finalists revealed, winner to be announced at CleanMed 2022
The 2021 Health Care Culinary Contest broke new barriers for plant-forward cooking, and our five finalists took the proverbial cake with plant-forward recipes as innovative and diverse as the chefs who created them.
NYU Langone Health’s butternut squash & green pea farrotto
Peace Health Saint Joseph’s Shoyu beet poke bowl
Stanford Hospital’s wild mushroom birria
Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System’s curry sweet potato power crunch bowl
UW Health’s Afghan-style vegetable korma
We will announce the winning recipe and… Read More
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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 same time,… Read More
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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 1,500 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.