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Sample letter to the CEO of a group purchasing organization asking for support in purchasing environmentally preferable products and services, which are are essential components of a sustainable health care system.
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Practice Greenhealth uses a number of criteria to evaluate Environmental Excellence Award applications in its efforts to recognize hospitals and health systems for their outstanding achievements. To assist Practice Greenhealth health care facility members in gaining an understanding of how applications are evaluated, Practice Greenhealth has put together the following overview on our scoring framework.
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This document provides guidance for manufacturers wishing to meet Health Care Without Harm’s Healthy Interiors criteria and institutions working to achieve Practice Greenhealth’s Healthy Interiors goal.
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Background
Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration illustrates that buildings are responsible for almost half of the energy consumed and 38 percent of all GHG emissions in the United States. According to the EPA, inpatient health care ranks as the second largest commercial energy user after the food service industry. The US Department of Energy notes that hospital energy costs rose 56 percent from $3.89 per square foot in 2003 to $6.07 per square foot in 2008, and predicts those costs will continue to rise in the near term[i]. Hospitals are also often the largest water users in… Read More
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Advocate Health Care provides an outline for a computer based training module on creating a healthy environment. This guide contains topics to be covered, infographics, and sustainability facts that can be used for education.
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(Transportation toolkit) This infographic illustrates the opportunities health care has to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through green transportation programs along with specific examples from leading facilities.
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Each year, Practice Greenhealth collects and reviews comprehensive sustainability data from hospitals that report through the Environmental Excellence Awards. We utilize this data to provide the sector’s best sustainability performance benchmarking data to hospitals and health systems working to build environmental stewardship into their mission, and to the greater health care supply chain partners that are integral to this work. This is the twelfth report in a series stretching back to 2009. This report lays out sustainability performance data for 2020.
The COVID-19 pandemic brought… Read More
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This resource provides Practice Greenhealth members with guidance on more than 120 products and services health care organizations can target for sustainable procurement.
Medical products
Non-medical products
Services
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Climate change is a medical emergency. The health care sector has a moral mandate to respond and the power to be a tipping point towards a better future. Watch and share this Sundance-supported animated short film.
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(Health Care Without Harm) This issue brief provides an introduction to bringing climate risks into the community health needs assessment process and identifying valuable climate co-benefits of new or existing food-related initiatives in the community benefit implementation strategy.
By aligning environmental stewardship activities at the hospital with community health activities, there is a tremendous opportunity to amplify impact.
Food is a natural touchpoint as it has easily understood health and environmental impacts.
Environmental stewardship leads at the hospital can often… 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.