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HealthPartners outlines its charter and plans every five years and is a strong example of how a hospital or health system can create clear direction, processes, and accountability.
Type: Resources
Advocate Aurora Health organizes and reports their sustainability priorities through a dashboard. See a sample of how one facility manages its key performance indicators.
Type: Resources
When launching its sustainability program, Dignity Health established an environmental policy to provide clear direction about the purpose and procedures of their Environmental Action Committee and hospital and staff responsibilities.
Type: Resources
For hospitals unable to access any of the recommended certifications for a valued workforce, Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth have created a list of questions to ask food suppliers. Although these questions are most appropriate for direct purchases, we encourage you to consider how they might apply to distributors and other intermediaries.
Learn more about ethical food purchasing and health care's role in protecting workers
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How do you incorporate the concerns of your farmworkers into your practices and policies?
What steps are you currently building into your… Read More
Type: Resources
Practice Greenhealth and Health Care Without Harm recommend that food purchased carry one of these certifications when possible: the Agricultural Justice Project, Fair for Life, and Regenerative Organic. These certifications are recommended because of their commitment to addressing the social and economic determinants of health, individual health and safety of workers, and community resilience and their inclusion of sustainability criteria. To be recommended, each certification had to be recommended for at least one category (individual health and safety, social and economic determinants of… Read More
Type: Resources
[Plant-Forward Future] These sets of marketing and education resources highlight the value of plant proteins for flavor, good health, energy, and the environment.
Some research suggests that Monday may be a day when people are ready to start fresh with a new behavior, so consider highlighting plant-forward on Mondays with Meatless Monday resources.
Type: Resources
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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.