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Don’t know your hospital’s energy utilization index or Energy Star score? No problem. The Healthier Hospitals Leaner Energy Challenge, a program within Practice Greenhealth, has all the tools and tips to get a hospital started. Level 1 encourages facilities to establish a baseline, empowering users to understand where their hospital is performing in national benchmarks.
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(Employee engagement toolkit) This program provides hospitals with an opportunity to allow employees to buy or lease solar systems for their homes at a substantially lower rate than the national average. Implementing the program at your health system or hospital provides a great incentive to engage employees and contributes to the resilience of their communities.
Type: Resources
This guide provides some environmental attributes to consider in evaluating environmentally preferable windows and doors and contains definitions for the green attributes.
Type: Resources
Poster from the World Health Organization illustrates the health impacts of air pollution.
Type: Resources
These suggested environmental considerations focus on cooling towers, boilers, and other water systems, listed separately, that can be included as part of a water systems contract for health care facilities. The suggested environmental considerations can be used in RFPs or RFIs to identify opportunities for products that are environmentally preferable and/or contribute to LEED credits.
Type: Resources
(Less water toolkit) Providence St. Peter Hospital was able to significantly reduce its water usage and related utility costs by evaluating and making changes within its sterile processing department. This presentation demonstrates the repairs, upgrades, and protocol changes that were implemented in order to achieve these savings.
Type: Resources
Open this resource to see an example of a poster on recycling in the ICU from Seattle Children's Hospital.
Type: Resources
Open this resource to see an example of a poster on regulated medical waste disposal from Overlook Medical Center.
Type: Resources
View this resource to see an example of a recycling poster from Boston Medical Center and Stericycle.
Type: Resources
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