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Preparing for and investing in climate resilience can safeguard lives and an organization's financial viability. This customizable request for proposal (RFP) will help health care systems undertake infrastructure risk assessments and mitigation analyses for facilities facing extreme weather events and other climate risks. This template can help you identify and guide potential partners to explore improvements through enhanced maintenance, capital investments, and operations. It starts a process that can establish the foundations for financing and executing a long term Strategic Resiliency… Read More
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This guidance document is part 2 of our series “Protection without pollution: COVID-19 waste-reduction strategies.” These three guides will help health systems, hospitals, and other health care providers set up successful immunization programs that protect the health of people and our planet.
The world is undertaking the largest immunization campaign in history to fight COVID-19. Billions will be vaccinated in the coming years, which is generating an unprecedented amount of waste. If we plan ahead, we can minimize the impact and waste while ensuring universal immunization.
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Practice Greenhealth’s 2015 Sustainability Benchmark Report highlights the achievements of the 2015 Environmental Excellence award winners—a set of 220 hospitals who are setting the standard for health care environmental stewardship. This year’s data set is based on reported activities during the 2014 calendar/fiscal year and is organized into ten distinct benchmarking profiles on the different topic areas that may comprise a hospital environmental stewardship program—leadership, waste, chemicals, greening the operating room, food, environmentally preferable purchasing (EPP), energy, water,… Read More
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Preparing for and investing in energy efficiency and renewable energy can safeguard lives and an organization's financial viability. This customizable request for proposal (RFP) will help health care systems create a Strategic Energy Master Plan (SEMP). This template can help you identify and guide potential partners to explore improvements through energy efficiency, retro-commissioning and continuous commissioning, capital investments, building management systems, operational improvements, and renewable energy infrastructure and investments. It starts a process that can also link to efforts… Read More
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A Practice Greenhealth Case Study
“Organics recycling and food waste diversion remain very important to us, and we are slowly but surely working to expand both the number of facilities with organics recycling and the types of materials that can be recycled.” – Allison Egan, HealthPartners Sustainability Consultant
HealthPartners wanted to reduce sending organic waste to the landfill. They hoped to reduce their climate impact, lower their taxes, and recycle the nutrients found in food waste.
The health system partnered with a farmer, a commercial composter, and a community garden and… Read More
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Practice Greenhealth's 2014 edition of the annual health care Sustainability Benchmark Report, highlighting the achievements of the 2014 award-winning facilities. This report provides the nation’s most comprehensive analysis of how hospitals are progressing in their commitment to environmental stewardship. This year’s report is organized into ten separate benchmarking profiles on the different topic areas that make up a hospital environmental stewardship program— leadership, waste, chemicals, greening the operating room, food, environmentally preferable purchasing (EPP), energy, water,… Read More
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Sustainability staff at Carilion Clinic walk you through their journey to develop the health system’s first Scope 3 emissions inventory.
• Learn about all 15 categories of Scope 3 emissions and how to develop your organization’s Scope 3 emissions inventory by using the new Health Care Emissions Impact Calculator for facilities and health systems.
• Understand which Scope 3 categories are easier to reduce than others and the challenges to reducing Scope 3 emissions.
• Develop strategies and an action plan to reduce your organization’s Scope 3 emissions.
Gain a basic understanding of each of… Read More
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Health care organizations nationwide are offering healthier menus, working with farmers to purchase locally and sustainably grown products, reducing the amount of meat they purchase and serve, and going beyond their walls to help meet the food needs of their community, all in an effort to support the health of their patients, staff, surrounding community and the environment.
Practice Greenhealth member hospitals are making these changes by engaging in activities that support the modeling of healthier, more sustainable food choices for patients, employees, and visitors.
Systems and… Read More
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This template provides one-size-fits-all guidance to help health care organizations achieve successful waste management programs or projects. It outlines a new, standardized process for gathering the information necessary to design sustainable waste management solutions, optimize your project or program’s success, and develop a proposal for leadership buy-in.
Successfully implementing a sustainable waste management program or project will require following a defined process. This process includes:
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Watch the recorded training below to learn how to use the… Read More
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Energy efficiency can enhance human health by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving outdoor air quality and decreasing acid rain. The energy needed to run commercial and industrial buildings in the United States produces 19 percent of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, 12 percent of nitrogen oxides, and 25 percent of sulfur dioxide, at a cost of $110 billion a year.
The health care sector is in need of cost-effective solutions to address the rising cost of energy and the health implications of energy use. Once a facility has developed an energy baseline by tracking and measuring its… 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.
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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.