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Generic template for contracting integrated pest management for landscaping services at a health care facility.
Type: Resources
Each year, Practice Greenhealth collects and compiles comprehensive sustainability data from hospitals that report through the Environmental Excellence Awards. Practice Greenhealth is then able to provide the sector’s best performance benchmarking data to hospitals and health systems working to build environmental stewardship into their mission.
Sustainability initiatives can add value, reduce negative health and environmental impacts, and save critical health care dollars – substantiated by the environmental performance data coming out of health care. The 331 hospitals that contributed… Read More
Type: Resources
Hear from health care and business leaders why sustainability is important from a mission and business perspective, how to prioritize it among competing initiatives, and how sustainability is intimately connected to building community health, wealth, and resilience.
Each speaker will share:
How their organization came to realize the sustainability imperative and how the commitment plays out in purchasing, community benefit programs, and operations.
How sustainability and community resilience teams work together and identify synergies.
How the organization demonstrates business value and… Read More
Type: Resources
Advocate Health Care outlines their guiding aims, principles, and practices regarding the purchase and use of chemicals.
Type: Resources
(Transportation toolkit) The Practice Greenhealth Transportation get started guide provides guidance and resources for hospitals to create a transportation baseline, identify goals, and identify strategies to reduce the environmental and human health impacts of transportation in the health care sector.
Type: Resources
This vetted list of criteria meets the definition of sustainable eggs for Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth.
Type: Resources
It is common for health care leaders to challenge proposed energy projects. How does Al Neuner, Geisinger Health System vice president of facilities operations convince his leadership to say “yes” every time? Learn the innovations and approaches Geisinger Health System utilized enabling them to earn a 100 Energy Star score while translating energy savings to human health impacts.
Type: Resources
This step-by-step guide will help a health care facility achieve a 15 percent recycling rate compared to total waste.
Type: Resources
Integrated pest management (IPM) programs have the benefit of protecting staff, patients, and visitors from exposure to pesticides that are linked to adverse health impacts, including respiratory impacts, cancers, neurological disorders, and reproductive problems. A defined IPM program is a pest management strategy focusing on long-term, non-chemical strategies for prevention and suppression of pest problems through a combination of structural, cultural, mechanical, physical, and biological controls, with least-hazardous pesticides used only as a last resort. The program focuses on removing… Read More
Type: Resources
While crucial to patient care, the surgical department for many health care facilities can be a huge source of energy consumption, waste generation, and supply expenses, not to mention greenhouse gas emissions. During this call, we’ll examine the most recent Practice Greenhealth benchmark data and highlight national trends. We’ll share success stories from leading hospitals and lessons to bring back to your facility.
Type: Resources
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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.