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(Health Care Without Harm) Community gardens can take a variety of forms including rooftop gardens, schoolyard gardens, backyard gardens and neighborhood gardens.
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Transitioning grassroots or departmental greening initiatives towards a formalized sustainability plan requires an engaged leadership team. And it's no coincidence that the furthest-reaching health care facilities have firm leadership engagement. Engaged leaders help move sustainability initiatives beyond specific areas of success and reach across all departments and initiatives with a direct link to the strategic direction of the organization.
When health care leaders can articulate why this work is important on a personal level and then operationalize that commitment throughout the… Read More
Type: Resources
Sample letter to the CEO of a group purchasing organization asking for support in purchasing environmentally preferable products and services, which are are essential components of a sustainable health care system.
Type: Resources
Advocate Health Care provides a checklist for evaluating sustainable work spaces. This evaluation uses random interviews of staff and observation to determine a department's engagement in sustainable practices.
Type: Resources
Food service is a powerful but often untapped lever with the potential to improve patient and community health, address diet-related disease, reduce carbon footprints, and build community wealth and resilience. At CleanMed 2022 May 10-12 in Kansas City, hear from experts on how to bring equity and diversity principles into food purchasing and how plant-forward menus and new food waste recovery strategies can help hospitals meet ambitious climate targets.
Attendees of CleanMed will discover the power of food to:
Integrate equity & community into food purchasing
Learn how to integrate… Read More
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Amery Hospital and Clinic provides health care services that enhance the quality of life in the community and contribute to environmental health. Keeping the community and environment in mind with the design of its new facility and grounds, Amery has incorporated some elements to be enjoyed for leisure, reflection, contemplation, and health. These amenities include rain gardens, green roofs, a nature trail, and a raptor nest.
Open the resource to see the map of the grounds and detailed information on these features.
Type: Resources
From her former cardiac nursing unit to academia to health organizations across the country, Shanda has led systems to embed sustainability into operations and culture. Armed with a Doctorate in Health Innovation and Leadership, she serves as Affiliate Faculty at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing, is published in multiple academic journals, and presents internationally about climate action in health care. Shanda lives in the Sangre de Cristo mountain range in Crestone, Colorado.
Type: Staff
This document provides guidance for manufacturers wishing to meet Health Care Without Harm’s Healthy Interiors criteria and institutions working to achieve Practice Greenhealth’s Healthy Interiors goal.
Type: Resources
The use of certain chemical constituents in products and materials can have significant health repercussions for building occupants, patients, staff, and the community. Chemicals of concern can be found in cleaning and disinfection processes, medical devices, furniture and furnishings, and health care labs – to name a few. Identifying and quantifying these opportunity areas can support chemical minimization goals.
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Practice Greenhealth uses a number of criteria to evaluate Environmental Excellence Award applications in its efforts to recognize hospitals and health systems for their outstanding achievements. To assist Practice Greenhealth health care facility members in gaining an understanding of how applications are evaluated, Practice Greenhealth has put together the following overview on our scoring framework.
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