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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.
Type: Basic page
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.
Type: Resources
Advocate Health Care provides an outline for a computer based training module on creating a healthy environment. This guide contains topics to be covered, infographics, and sustainability facts that can be used for education.
Type: Resources
Your choices matter. By choosing a plant-forward meal you can have a huge impact.
Work in health care? Learn more about how to take action at your facility.
Type: Basic page
(Transportation toolkit) This infographic illustrates the opportunities health care has to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through green transportation programs along with specific examples from leading facilities.
Type: Resources
Learn and network with affiliate premium partners
Join Practice Greenhealth on March 1 at 11:00 a.m. ET for our first partner forum of the year featuring 3M and Accenture.
These quarterly, interactive education and networking events provide our affiliate partners – manufacturers, suppliers, service providers, or other supply chain partners – a chance to introduce, share, and spark conversations and solutions with the larger Practice Greenhealth network.
What attendees can expect:
Featured partners sharing information about their companies’ sustainability efforts and achievements… Read More
Type: Press
Learn and network with new affiliate premium partners
Join Practice Greenhealth on December 8 at 11:00 a.m. ET for our last partner forum of the year featuring GE HealthCare and Johnson & Johnson.
These quarterly, interactive education and networking events provide our affiliate partners – manufacturers, suppliers, service providers, or other supply chain partners – a chance to introduce, share, and spark conversations and solutions with the larger Practice Greenhealth network.
What attendees can expect:
Featured partners sharing information about their companies’ sustainability… Read More
Type: Press
Learn and network with new affiliate premium partners
Join Practice Greenhealth on March 9 at 11:00 a.m. ET as we kick off our 2022 partner forum series with B. Braun, Stericycle, and other affiliate premium partners. These quarterly, interactive education and networking events provide our affiliate partners – manufacturers, suppliers, service providers, or other supply chain partners – a chance to introduce, share, and spark conversations and solutions with the larger Practice Greenhealth network.
What attendees can expect:
Featured partners sharing information about their companies’… Read More
Type: Press
Jenny comes to Health Care Without Harm with over five years of federal service, including serving as a policy advisor to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), senior leader in the HHS Office of Climate Change and Health Equity, and Medicare policy analyst at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). In the Secretary's Office and Office of Climate Change and Health Equity, Jenny led initiatives including the Catalytic Program on Leveraging the Inflation Reduction Act and the Secretary’s Initiative on Protecting Farmworkers from Extreme Heat and… Read More
Type: Staff
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Practice Greenhealth is the health care sector’s go-to source for information, tools, data, resources, and expert technical support on sustainability initiatives that help hospitals and health systems meet their health, financial, and community goals.
Who We Are
Practice Greenhealth is the leading sustainable health care organization, delivering environmental solutions to more than 1,700 hospitals and health systems in the United States and Canada. Partnership opportunities include hospitals, health systems, community health organizations, NGOs, nonprofits, government, academic institutions, and the health care value chain.