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Boston Medical Center provides an example of a strategic energy management plan that details conservation measures.
Type: Resources
The University of Washington Medical Center provides a case study in utility cost reduction involving assessment of and improvements to its HVAC, water, and waste management systems.
Type: Resources
HealthPartners has created an energy management plan that provides structure, guidance, and organization on how HealthPartners manages its operations, construction, and renovations with respect to energy efficiency. This plan focuses on integrating efficiency and sustainability strategies to improve performance, lower costs, and conserve natural resources and is intended to support enterprise programs by providing guidance and suggestions of best management practices that should be considered.
Type: Resources
Sustainability governance structures are put in place to ensure progress on sustainability initiatives. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s governance structure includes a high-level steering committee, and a range of topical working groups and task forces. They also have a network of local leaders who implement and integrate sustainability into departments on the ground.
Type: Resources
Charters define logistics, roles, responsibilities, priorities, and interdependencies of a sustainability program’s structure. Mayo Clinic’s Florida sustainability subcommittee charter begins with a purpose statement, outlining the reporting structure to the system level sustainability committee and highlighting the working relationship between governance structures at multiple levels.
Type: Resources
Sustainability commitment statements articulate how an organization’s mission, vision, values, and strategic priorities align with sustainability work, and underscore the importance to patients and communities. Trinity Health Ann Arbor’s statement references their values of justice and stewardship, outlining how carbon footprint reduction and enhanced sustainable operations has helped them become a healing presence in their communities.
Type: Resources
Sustainability commitment statements are brief, inspirational, and visionary. HealthPartners’ mission statement succinctly connects the relationship between sustainability work and improving community health and well-being.
Type: Resources
Governor Peter Shumlin joined Drive Electric Vermont in celebrating the launch of Drive the Dream Vermont, a campaign to increase the use of electric vehicles in the state. As part of the campaign, a diverse group of leading Vermont employers met with Governor Shumlin to announce their commitments to advance electric vehicles in Vermont. The Drive the Dream Vermont campaign will spur the growth of electric vehicles by asking businesses to commit to installing new electric vehicle chargers for employees in the workplace.
Type: Resources
Practice Greenhealth member Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center provided their environmentally preferred (EPP) contract language from 2016 that is provided to all of their suppliers.
Type: Resources
Spectrum Health System is adopting energy-efficient operating strategies to improve performance, lower costs and conserve natural resources. The Spectrum Health Energy Management Team will support the development and implementation of the energy management plan by providing resources and guidance to promote responsible energy management practices on a system wide and local entity approach.
Type: Resources
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