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By Janet Howard, Practice Greenhealth member engagement manager
Headquartered in vibrant Nashville, Tenn., HCA Healthcare (HCA) has more than 170 hospitals across the country and approximately 1,800 sites of care, including surgery centers, freestanding ERs, urgent care centers, and physician clinics. A member of Practice Greenhealth since 2009 and a founding sponsor of the Greening the OR Initiative, HCA’s environmental stewardship programming is framed around the importance of building healthier communities. Each of its hospitals has a sustainability lead, and many HCA hospitals have won… Read More
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Practice Greenhealth announces winners of Top 25 Environmental Excellence Awards
[Washington, DC] Practice Greenhealth, the nation’s leading nonprofit membership and networking organization for sustainable health care, has announced the winners of its annual Top 25 Environmental Excellence Awards.
These health care facilities exemplify the best in environmental excellence, representing the highest standards for sustainability practices in health care.
“As more and more hospitals embed sustainability into their operations, the bar for environmental excellence increases every year,” said… Read More
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Practice Greenhealth recently attended the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses conference in New Orleans to promote environmental best practices in the operating room. We shared Greening the OR resources and five strategies that can save $25,000 a year per OR with nurses, managers, directors, students, and educators. And we connected with human resources staff from many Practice Greenhealth members and provided them with the new HR checklist.
Be sure to check out the post-conference webinar for the most recent OR sustainability benchmark report data, featuring trends and savings… Read More
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As a Practice Greenhealth member, your organization is striving for healthier environments, healthier people, and a healthier bottom line. In times of trying to do more with less, while also. As a Practice Greenhealth member, your organization is striving for healthier environments, healthier people, and a healthier bottom line. In times of trying to do more with less, while also.As a Practice Greenhealth member, your organization is striving for healthier environments, healthier people, and a healthier bottom line. In times of trying to do more with less, while also.
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The Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellend Award winners were honrered at the awards Gala & Celebration Dinner held on May 9 during CleanMed 2018 in San Diego, California. The Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellend Award winners were honrered at the awards Gala & Celebration Dinner held on May 9 during CleanMed 2018 in San Diego, California. The Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellend Award winners were honrered at the awards Gala & Celebration Dinner held on May 9 during CleanMed 2018 in San Diego, California.
The Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellend… Read More
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The Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellend Award winners were honrered at the awards Gala & Celebration Dinner held on May 9 during CleanMed 2018 in San Diego, California. The Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellend Award winners were honrered at the awards Gala & Celebration Dinner held on May 9 during CleanMed 2018 in San Diego, California. The Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellend Award winners were honrered at the awards Gala & Celebration Dinner held on May 9 during CleanMed 2018 in San Diego, California.
The Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellend… Read More
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The Greenhealth Approved seal was developed to make identifying sustainable products easier for health care product purchasers. Mohawk Group now has the Greenhealth Approved seal for their EcoFlex ONE carpeting. Products that carry the seal have been found to meet the sustainability criteria established by Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth.
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At Practice Greenhealth, we’re dedicated to coaching hospitals through their sustainability journey by targeting key areas like operating rooms. Anesthetic gases, like desflurane, are crucial in surgeries but can also be significant contributors to the climate crisis. To address this, our partner hospitals and health systems are prioritizing the reduction and elimination of one of the most costly anesthetic gases with the highest global warming potential – desflurane.
But there’s great news, according to our Sustainability Benchmark Report – 40% of our partners have eliminated desflurane… Read More
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Catch the latest episode of Fierce Healthcare: Podnosis, featuring two of our experts, Dr. Ted Schettler and Dr. Emily Sbiroli. They dive into the plastics crisis and how it’s impacting health care, and explore potential solutions and share real-world examples of innovations in the health sector to address this issue.
"There are many opportunities in health care for getting rid of single-use plastics that wouldn't have any impact on patient care"
– Dr. Ted Schettler
Dr. Schettler, one of our science advisers, brings decades of experience to the table, while Dr. Sbiroli, recognized as… Read More
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Hospitals produce more than 5 million tons of waste each year – and a vast portion of it comes from single-use plastics. Kaiser Permanente recognized this challenge as an opportunity to leverage its purchasing power and influence its suppliers to collaborate on a packaging redesign to reduce waste and save money.
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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.