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Hill-Espinoza is the national lead, Southern California regional liaison, and manager of strategic partnerships for economic impact within impact spending at Kaiser Permanente. Passionate about closing the health-wealth gap, Hill-Espinoza’s work sits at the intersection of social, environmental, and economic equity. She is responsible for development, implementation, and execution of complex, cross-functional strategic initiatives that leverage the organization’s purchasing power, as well as total health strategy as a vehicle for addressing the social determinants of health. By layering… Read More
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Through your purchasing, there are many ways you can improve the health and well-being of people in your community and ensure that farm and food workers can live and work with dignity. In this section, we outline best practices that support a valued workforce and community health and nutrition.
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Understanding how distributors, suppliers, carriers, and service providers move hospital materials can help hospitals make smart choices when it comes to choosing suppliers with responsible and efficient transportation practices.
Strategies such as requiring that preferred suppliers participate in programs focused on adopting advanced, fuel-efficient technologies and operational practices for freight or developing campus-wide no-idle policies and practices, including on the loading dock, can save fuel and fuel costs while also reducing hazardous air pollution.
Suppliers who are EPA… Read More
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Dr. Alice Chen is an internal medicine physician and national leader in physician advocacy and public health. She currently serves as senior advisor to Made to Save, a national grassroots public outreach campaign helping communities disproportionately affected by COVID-19 access information and vaccines. She previously served as executive director of Doctors for America, a national network of physicians and medical students who advocate for policies to improve patients’ lives. Under her leadership, the organization played an important role in the passage of the Affordable Care Act and… Read More
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This document presents the World Health Organization (WHO) Operational framework for building climate resilient health systems. The framework responds to the demand from Member States and partners for guidance on how the health sector and its operational basis in health systems can systematically and effectively address the challenges increasingly presented by climate variability and change. This framework has been designed in light of the increasing evidence of climate change and its associated health risks (1); global, regional and national policy mandates to protect population health (2);… Read More
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The Bronx is home to nearly 1.5 million people. According to the New York City Food Bank, the Bronx is also the most food insecure of the five boroughs with nearly one in five residents facing hunger on a daily basis. Nearly half of the residents live below the poverty line.
From a plant-based vegan diet that is helping cardiac patients get and stay healthy to hosting weekly farmers markets and working with bodegas to increase the prevalence of vegetables in the borough, Montefiore is redefining preventative care, influencing the health and wellness of not only its… Read More
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More than a third of our member hospitals have identified furniture and furnishings as an area where they’d like to reduce patient, employee, and visitor exposure to chemicals of concern, especially as evidence shows that many of the chemicals used in these products off-gas, or migrate out, from the finished product and get into the air and dust, exposing employees, patients, and visitors to the chemicals.
Targeted chemicals of concern in furniture and furnishings include:
Formaldehyde, a known human carcinogen, found in furniture, cabinets, countertops, and many other products.
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The U.S. Health Care Climate Council has welcomed two new members. University of California Health (UC Health) and Rochester Regional Health have joined the leadership body of health systems committed to protecting their patients and employees from the health impacts of climate change and becoming anchors for resilient communities.
As part of the University of California system, UC Health is working toward 100 percent reliance on clean electricity supplies across its campuses and UC Health’s medical centers by 2025. This dovetails with the university’s prior pledge to become operationally… Read More
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[Plant-Forward Future] Given that meat is often the most expensive product category for hospital food service departments, Johns Hopkins Hospital adopted a “less meat, better meat” strategy, first reducing by 15% the amount of meat they purchased overall in 2014 and then investing in purchasing healthier, more sustainably-produced meat products.
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(World Health Organization) This document presents the World Health Organization (WHO) Operational framework for building climate resilient health systems. The framework responds to the demand from Member States and partners for guidance on how the health sector and its operational basis in health systems can systematically and effectively address the challenges increasingly presented by climate variability and change. This framework has been designed in light of the increasing evidence of climate change and its associated health risks (1); global, regional and national policy mandates to… Read More
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