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(Delivering community benefit: Climate and health toolkit) This climate health summary tool is an Excel workbook designed to help health planning staff and community members develop quantitative indicators of the likely health impacts of climate change in their local area. These impacts are driven by rising temperatures, air pollution changes, more severe weather, and increased ticks and vectors related to changing habitats. Health consequences with disproportionate affects on vulnerable populations are also highlighted. The tool gives users a relatively easy and self-contained approach to… Read More
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(Delivering community benefit: Climate and health toolkit) This climate health summary tool is an Excel workbook designed to help health planning staff and community members develop quantitative indicators of the likely health impacts of climate change in their local area. These impacts are driven by rising temperatures, air pollution changes, more severe weather, and increased ticks and vectors related to changing habitats. Health consequences with disproportionate affects on vulnerable populations are also highlighted. The tool gives users a relatively easy and self-contained approach to… Read More
Type: Resources
Practice Greenhealth provides a presentation that can be used as a foundation for a discussion or community education event on climate and health. This slide deck is intended to give you a variety of slides that you can pull from, depending on your need. The slide deck goes through the background first: climate change science, health impacts of climate change, and different energy sources. Then it reviews the three pillars of climate health: mitigation, resilience, and leadership, along with tools for each of those solutions.
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Legacy Health seeks to source products and services that minimize adverse environmental and human health impact. This sample contract includes environmental considerations for relocation and moving services.
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Sample HIPAA compliant data amendment for use in contracts with suppliers.
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This tool supports food service facilities in tracking their purchasing of healthy beverages, as part of their Healthy Beverage Programs.
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(Greenhealth cost of ownership toolkit) Use this template to know your organization's cost for utilities and services and apply these costs for a more comprehensive cost analysis. These costs can be reused for each assessment.
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(Delivering community benefit: Climate and health toolkit) This is a sample email inviting community benefit collaboration.
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This is an exemplary document from HealthPartners, a list of Earth Day events for 2018 the system created as a resource for its hospitals and clinics to support celebrations.
Earth Day is coming up in April, and local engagement is important to our commitment to sustainability. In April, we hope you’ll help your team learn a little more about sustainability at HealthPartners – and maybe even do a fun activity or two.
Below are a few fun and easy ideas from the Clinics Green Team. Consider sharing these ideas with your team, and ask them how they’d like to celebrate Earth Day at your… Read More
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Practice Greenhealth is the leading sustainable health care organization, delivering environmental solutions to more than 1,700 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.