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The 2019 Health Care Culinary Contest challenged hospital chefs to create and serve a tantalizing new meal that celebrated the power of plants. Hospital chefs from across the country answered the call.
Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth teamed up with Menus of Change, an initiative of The Culinary Institute of America and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to host the contest.
Health Care Without Harm planned to announce the results and celebrate the winner of the in May at CleanMed 2020. Due to COVID-19, we made the decision to cancel CleanMed and to postpone… Read More
Type: Press
Malini Ramanarayanan Moraghan is founder and managing director of Torana Group, a novel investment firm that helps people invest in their convictions, investing debt and equity into businesses where human and natural resources are strategic drivers of enterprise value. She has spent 20 years balancing margin and mission, working at the intersection of finance, strategy, food and agriculture, and ESG investments. She has advised family offices, national foundations, food and agriculture investors, and USDA leaders. Her imprint is on over $50 million in capital deployed toward more resilient… Read More
Type: Staff
Alice T. Chen, MD, is a mom, internal medicine physician, and national leader in public health, physician advocacy, and community organizing. She serves as chair of the board of directors of Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth. She was a founding board member and executive director for Doctors for America, a grassroots organization of physicians and medical students in all 50 states that played a key role in the passage of the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid expansion in multiple states and continues to advocate for policies that benefit patients. At the height of the… Read More
Type: Staff
Food service departments across the country are influencing their supply chain by channeling human health values into their purchasing choices. Yet, the impact does not end at the point of purchase. When these products are tracked with intention, teasing out which are sourced locally and which are produced with verifiable environmentally and socially preferred practices, it reveals the sweet spot, the crossover where a product carries both attributes simultaneously.
Identifying and accurately tracking these crossover products allows hospitals to use their purchasing power to most effectively… Read More
Type: Press
What is composting?
Compost is created from the decomposition of landscape and food wastes. In a finished product, it is a dark, crumbly and earthy-smelling material that appears similar to soil. Composting provides institutions with a method to dispose of a large portion of these waste streams in a way that benefits their bottom line and the environment. By composting, an institution avoids high per ton incineration or landfill disposal costs for these dense and heavy materials. For some institutions that use an industrial food disposal system, composting avoids sludge issues at the… Read More
Type: Resources
Dignity Health manages its operations in a manner demonstrably protective of human health and the environment and seeks new and better ways to meet its environmental goals through conservation, reduction, reuse and recycling programs. Dignity Health is committed to improving environmental management in its hospitals and to partnering with others in its community to safeguard the health of people and planet. The purpose of this policy is to articulate a commitment to respect and protect Earth and its endorsement of the Ceres Principles for environmental protection and conservation.
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Type: Resources
With the rise of telehealth services and hybrid environments, many institutions benefitted from studies and data that informed changes, which translated into emissions reductions. In this session, clinicians and experts will share results from a 2020 Cleveland Clinic employee survey and the impact commutes had on Scope 3 emissions. Also hear about policy decisions made from commuting data and incentives from Stanford Health Care’s focus groups and interviews, and learn about system-level environmental savings from virtual visits in their radiation oncology department.
Type: Event
Practice Greenhealth collected and compiled extensive sustainability data from 327 hospitals to provide timely information to hospitals and health systems working to build environmental stewardship into their mission.
The environmental performance data coming out of health care continues to substantiate the claim that sustainability initiatives can add value, reduce negative health and environmental impacts, and save critical health care dollars.
The hospitals that contributed data as part of their 2019 Environmental Excellence Awards submissions together saved an impressive $68 million on… Read More
Type: Resources
Emma has dedicated herself over the last 25 years to building a better food system that nourishes our bodies, communities, and planet. In her current role, she leads a team of content experts and organizers to engage the health care sector to use their economic, social, and political influence to support the development of healthy, sustainable, and equitable food systems. Emma holds a master’s in Urban and Environmental Planning from Arizona State University.
Type: Event Presenters
A navigational tool for achieving zero emissions with climate resilience and health equity
This is the second in a series of research and policy papers that Health Care Without Harm and Arup have produced together to identify a set of actions the health sector can take to align itself with the ambition of the Paris Agreement while simultaneously achieving global health goals. Green Paper One defined health care’s climate footprint and opportunities for action. This paper sets out a broad, overarching guide for the sector to move toward decarbonization. Future papers will continue to build… Read More
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.