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Health care is a huge generator of waste materials. While some wastes are difficult to avoid, many waste types can be reduced, and others can be recovered and recycled. This employee education presentation focuses on the best ways to reduce, reuse, recycle, and properly dispose of waste in Legacy Health facilities.
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Please consider these environmental questions for the RFP/RFI for medical positioners. These questions also apply to mattresses, mattress overlays (egg crates, alternating pressure pads, low air loss, static air overlays), therapeutic surfaces, critical care beds, low beds, medical/surgical beds, and bariatric beds. Some of the Standardized Environmental Questions for Medical Products, v1.0, apply and offer guidance on key attributes. Additional environmental considerations are provided that are specific to this category
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When contracting for waste management and recycling services, consider the suggested RFI/RFP questions to assess service options to maximize waste reduction and recycling opportunities. Practice Greenhealth provides members detailed purchasing guidance on waste tracking, hauling, auditing, and fees.
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Sample poster from Dartmouth-Hitchcock made with a customizable template to raise awareness around less waste.
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(Less waste toolkit)The material and waste baseline PowerPoint presentation and script was developed to help you educate your community. Download the PowerPoint with notes to use as you see fit.
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Highlight the less waste champions within your organization using this "It starts with us" poster template. Simply download this Microsoft Word document, customize with your organization's logo and employees' information, and save to a PDF to print.
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Open this resource to view a Boston Medical Center employee presentation on sustainability initiatives and achievements.
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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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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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During a Health Care Climate Council meeting, Dr. Amy Collins, Health Care Without Harm medical director, led a discussion with Council members about the medical and clinical director of sustainability positions. View the recording to get insights about the role from a few medical directors and hear from sustainability directors on why they feel these clinical leaders are an essential addition to sustainability governance teams.
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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.