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Hospital’s ‘Green Team’ cuts waste and expense
Tuesday, October 7, 2014 2:24 PM
By E. A. Barrera/Special to the Index-Tribune
Realizing that medical waste can really add up – both in garbage and dollars – Sonoma Valley Hospital formed a “Green Team” three years ago to find ways to curb environmental degradation.
Now that work is paying off, with a 31 percent reduction in annual waste, moves to eliminate mercury and other toxic chemicals from the facility altogether, and some newfound recognition to boot.
In June, SVH was honored as a leader in environmentally sustainable business… Read More
Type: Press
The Coolfood Pledge team provides members with guidance on developing a plan for serving more climate-friendly food while meeting other dining-related targets.
Type: Resources
In the more than eight years Dunne (he/him) has been the sustainability lead at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the institution has received seven consecutive Top 25 Environmental Excellence Awards from Practice Greenhealth for leadership in health care sustainability and over 50 sustainability-related industry awards. He currently serves on a multitude of national and international leadership cohorts, councils, and planning groups related to sustainability, climate action, sustainable sourcing, and other health care strategies. He previously worked as a consultant advancing… Read More
Type: Event Presenters
Health care institutions and the communities they serve are intimately interconnected, especially during and following extreme weather events and human-made disasters. In January, 2017, Health Care Without Harm convened a Summit "Resilience 2.0: Healthcare’s Role in Anchoring Community Health and Resilience" focused on leveraging community health and climate resilience as a key strategy in the strengthening the health care sector’s climate preparedness. Outputs address 1) health care sector engagement in climate public policy; 2) a business case for climate resilient health care; 3)… Read More
Type: Resources
Improve patient outcomes and reduce the prevalence and expense of diet-related diseases in your community by increasing and improving healthy food access and connecting patients to nutrition programs.
Type: Basic page
Plant-Forward Future is helping hospitals and other institutions purchase and serve healthy, locally-sourced beans and bean products to their customers in Colorado – and across the country. This short film follows Colorado farmers who grow pinto beans for local processors who create value-added products, including Fiesta Beans and Rocky Mountain Pinto Tempeh.
Ready to market plant proteins grown in your region?
All over the United States, health care systems have partnered with local producers and food processors to source plant-based protein ingredients and products especially suited… Read More
Type: Press
We teamed up with chefs Jessica Wright, director of healthy food in institutions for Nourish Colorado, and Andre Uribe, founder of Sustainable Meals Oregon, to create recipes and film demo videos for eight mouthwatering, plant-forward dishes.
From spicy tempeh chorizo to Thai hazelnut soba noodles and soy curls to green chickpea guacamole, each dish builds on locally available plant proteins – including some of the innovative products we developed with health care systems, and local producers and food processors for our regional plant-based protein project.
These recipes are part of Plant… Read More
Type: Press
Plant-Forward Future We teamed up with chefs Jessica Wright, director of healthy food in institutions for Nourish Colorado, and Andre Uribe, founder of Sustainable Meals Oregon, to create recipes and film demo videos for eight mouthwatering, plant-forward dishes.
From spicy tempeh chorizo to Thai hazelnut soba noodles and soy curls to green chickpea guacamole, each dish builds on locally available plant proteins – including some of the innovative products we developed with health care systems, and local producers and food processors for our regional plant-based protein project.
These… Read More
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Health Care Without Harm and the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments annually present the Charlotte Brody Award to a nurse who promotes and protects environmental health.The 2025 honoree, Anne Hulick, JD, MS, RN, is a leader in educating nurses on the intersection of climate and health. With decades of advocacy, Hulick bridges health care and policy, fighting toxic chemicals like PFAS and promoting environmental justice. Her journey began in hospitals, where she saw the need for sustainable healthcare practices. Now as Connecticut Director of Clean Water Action, Hulick influences… Read More
Type: Press
We need opinions from health care procurement and supply chain professionals.
Health care sustainability is changing more quickly than ever before, as are how procurement and supply chain professionals are seeking guidance and learning opportunities.
Whether you are familiar with the work of Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth or not, we need the input of professionals doing the work to strengthen our goal to drive policies and markets for ethically produced, healthy, sustainable products and services. To that end, we’re conducting research on how professionals like you prefer… Read More
Type: Press
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