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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… Read More
Type: Press
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 is a huge generator of waste materials. While some wastes are difficult to avoid, many waste types can be reduced, and others can be recovered and recycled. This employee education presentation focuses on the best ways to reduce, reuse, recycle, and properly dispose of waste in Legacy Health facilities.
Type: Resources
Don’t miss this valuable opportunity to build and strengthen your organization’s climate resilience approach. Designed for health care organizations early in their journey with some internal alignment in place, this series helps you take the next step toward a more structured approach.Across three sessions, you will explore how to integrate climate resilience into core operations, including emergency preparedness, facilities, clinical care, and supply chain. You will assess internal and external risks, identify opportunities to strengthen continuity of care, and examine how regional systems… Read More
Type: Event
When preparing for meetings with prospective sponsors or executive champions, use or modify this slide deck for formal presentations that outline the opportunity for alignment of sustainability and community resilience principles with the overarching strategic goals of the hospital or health system. There's plenty of room to bring in the unique attributes of your health care facility and community.
Type: Resources
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
(Sustainable procurement guide) Health care facilities may wish to adapt this template from Practice Greenhealth to develop their own sustainable procurement policy.
Type: Resources
Sample letter to the VP of suply chain asking for support in purchasing environmentally preferable products and services, which are are essential components of a sustainable health care system.
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… Read More
Type: Press
Practice Greenhealth’s annual Sustainability Benchmark Report provides the most comprehensive dataset tracking health care sustainability, representing the incredible collective impact that our partner health care facilities in the U.S. and Canada had each year as they worked to make their operations more sustainable.In 2025, a record-breaking 493 participating facilities demonstrated that sustainability in health care is delivering measurable returns, embedding clinical engagement as standard practice, and proving that strategic choices yield outsized impact. This report is made for those… Read More
Type: Resources
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