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These documents provide guidance for manufacturers wishing to meet Health Care Without Harm’s Healthy Carpet criteria. The criteria apply to carpet tile, broadloom carpet, and carpet padding. The criteria do not apply to area rugs and outdoor carpet and rugs.
Manufacturers interested in developing a list of their products that meet the Healthy Carpet criteria should visit Greenhealth Approved.
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Part of Purchasing Commitment: Getting started guides
Over the years, many products in the operating room setting have transitioned to single-use, disposable products, due to convenience, low cost, and infection prevention concerns. The process has led to significant volumes of plastics and other waste, often with little or no available recycling markets. While the upfront price tag of a reusable product may seem more expensive compared to a disposable product, a life cycle cost analysis or total cost of ownership - which takes into account considerations such as production/… Read More
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(Employee engagement toolkit) In 2012, Ridgeview started to implement a number of energy efficiency projects. Concurrently, the team started to analyze employee behavior as it relates to energy usage. The mindset is health care is a 24/7 operation, but not every space operates that way. This allowed Ridgeview to create a list of low- and no-cost actions for employees to help with energy conservation throughout the hospital and at home.
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Practice Greenhealth’s data, collected from hospitals across the country, will assist hospitals in identifying key sustainability program opportunities by benchmarking their own program’s performance. The data is divided into 10 components of health care environmental stewardship programs: leadership, waste, chemicals, greening the operating room, food, environmentally preferable purchasing, energy, water, climate, and green building.
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(Health Care Without Harm) This brief contains recommendations to assist community benefit staff and community partners in conducting program evaluation for healthy food access programs. It contains guidance for evaluation planning and links out to validated, frequently used surveys and data collection tools to bolster support for programs nationally and develop a common set of indicators, measures, and methods.
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Providing incentives and programming to employees to improve the health of their homes, families, and friends is a way to extend the “culture of caring” beyond the walls of the organization. One program that can help reduce air pollution and climate impacts in your community is to provide employees with discounts on residential solar systems. Download the Practice Greenhealth Employee Home Solar Program guide to learn more and get started.
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Practice Greenhealth has been recognizing environmental excellence in health care sustainability since the Awards program inception in 2002. This is the second annual benchmark report, based on data supplied in applications by 2010 Partner for Change (PFC) and Environmental Leadership Circle (ELC) award winners. The data mirrors the order of the 2010 applications so it can be used to compare a facility to national averages and top performers.
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Water used in hospitals and other health care facilities comprises 7 percent of the total water use in commercial and institutional facilities in the United States. The largest uses of water in hospitals are cooling equipment, plumbing fixtures, landscaping, and medical process rinses. WaterSense at Work: Best Management Practices for Commercial and Institutional Facilities promotes water-efficient techniques that can be applied across a wide range of facilities with varying water needs.
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This digest provides resources for purchasing sustainable products. Use the resources to identify environmental considerations for products and services, where to obtain more information, and the rationale for purchasing sustainably.
Please contact the procurement team with any questions.
Sustainable procurement directory
This resource provides Practice Greenhealth members with guidance on more than 120 products and services health care organizations can target for sustainable procurement.
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(Employee engagement toolkit) The Employee engagement presentation was developed to save you time. Topics covered include why employee engagement is important, what drives engagement, and case studies from within the health care business community. Download the presentation with notes to use as you see fit. The presentation could be used to present to a team, to educate others and to modify for your own use.
Sustainability and Employee Engagement Presentation
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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.
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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.