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Open this resource to view an image of part of a green building design at Advocate Health Care.
Type: Resources
Open this resource to view an image of part of a green building design at Advocate Health Care.
Type: Resources
(Transportation toolkit) The Practice Greenhealth Transportation get started guide provides guidance and resources for hospitals to create a transportation baseline, identify goals, and identify strategies to reduce the environmental and human health impacts of transportation in the health care sector.
Type: Resources
Advocate Health Care outlines their guiding aims, principles, and practices regarding the purchase and use of chemicals.
Type: Resources
Andaye Hill-Espinoza, MPH, serves as associate vice president of Core Tenet Programs for Responsible Sourcing at Vizient where she leads strategy to align health care purchasing with social impact, sustainability, and community resilience across the nation’s largest health care performance improvement network.Previously, Andaye led Protiviti’s Center of Excellence, advancing human rights due diligence and sustainable operations across sectors. She held key roles at Kaiser Permanente, where she helped design the $1B Impact Purchasing Commitment and developed cross-functional initiatives that… Read More
Type: Staff
Integrated pest management (IPM) programs have the benefit of protecting staff, patients, and visitors from exposure to pesticides that are linked to adverse health impacts, including respiratory impacts, cancers, neurological disorders, and reproductive problems. A defined IPM program is a pest management strategy focusing on long-term, non-chemical strategies for prevention and suppression of pest problems through a combination of structural, cultural, mechanical, physical, and biological controls, with least-hazardous pesticides used only as a last resort. The program focuses on removing… Read More
Type: Resources
It is common for health care leaders to challenge proposed energy projects. How does Al Neuner, Geisinger Health System vice president of facilities operations convince his leadership to say “yes” every time? Learn the innovations and approaches Geisinger Health System utilized enabling them to earn a 100 Energy Star score while translating energy savings to human health impacts.
Type: Resources
This vetted list of criteria meets the definition of sustainable eggs for Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth.
Type: Resources
The COVID-19 pandemic upended health care and continues to have lasting impacts on the way we deliver care. It brought significant shifts in hospital operations, from shutting down elective surgeries and vastly reducing food service operations to dealing with monumental supply chain challenges and a rapid transition to telehealth.
Sustainability leaders at Practice Greenhealth partner hospitals remained committed to maintaining sustainable practices where possible and lending sustainability expertise to emerging challenges.
As the only organization collecting comprehensive… Read More
Type: Resources
Practice Greenhealth’s 2019 Visionary Leader Award winner Barbara Tretheway arrived at HealthPartners in 2000 wanting to make a difference at work and in the community.
As general counsel, much of her focus was on governance, including helping to ensure the board of directors was governing the health care organization in the most efficient and impactful way possible.
“Every corporation whether for profit or not for profit is a citizen of the community that they live in and is judged in many societal ways. ‘Are you proud that they are in your community, or are they harming… Read More
Type: Press
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