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These suggested environmental considerations focus on cooling towers, boilers, and other water systems, listed separately, that can be included as part of a water systems contract for health care facilities. The suggested environmental considerations can be used in RFPs or RFIs to identify opportunities for products that are environmentally preferable and/or contribute to LEED credits.
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Blog posted by the Healthy Food Team of Practice Greenhealth and Health Care Without Harm
To celebrate Food Day in 2016, Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth teamed up with Menus of Change, an initiative of The Culinary Institute of America and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to support the sourcing of sustainable products and creation of healthy meals with recipes and resources.
With more than 70 participants from California to Massachusetts, Wisconsin to Florida and the places in between such as Wyoming and Colorado, hospitals answered… Read More
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Boston Medical Center is committed to excellence in health care, research and teaching while also protecting and enhancing the environment. As such, operations will be managed to minimize adverse environmental impacts and to maintain and continuously improve environmental compliance and performance.
View this resource to view the full environmental commitment statement from Boston Medical Center.
Type: Resources
Transportation is the fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States and is right behind energy production in terms of its impact. The health care sector contributes 8% of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States each year. Hospitals must make transportation more sustainable in order to reduce their carbon footprint.
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Wohlford (she/her) is the director of sustainability at Carilion Clinic, where she has been leading sustainability efforts for more than 10 years. She oversees programs for the health care system that reduce inefficiencies and waste, and promote environmental sustainability. Wohlford conceptualized and proposed her current position, created a work structure for sustainability for Carilion’s seven hospitals, and developed the Carilion Clinic environmental stewardship council. Wohlford’s programs increase recycling, decrease energy utilization, decrease natural resource consumption, and divert… Read More
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Preparing your Environmental Excellence Awards application due April 15? Follow our submission checklist:Complete your emissions categories: If you need help calculating a Scope 3 category, follow our video walkthrough using our Health Care Emissions Impact Calculator.* Scope 1 and 2 data and at least one category of Scope 3 are basic requirements if you’re participating to win an award. Hit the “Review this application” button early: Review your application before April 15 to ensure that all required questions are answered and metrics look accurate. If you accidentally submit before you’re… Read More
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This interactive session was designed to introduce affiliate premium partners to the Practice Greenhealth network and to spark conversations or kickoff collaboration opportunities. Ecolab and ODP Solutions shared information about their companies' sustainability efforts and achievements and engaged attendees in discussions about advancing health care sustainability.
Type: Event
Wall protection includes panels, corner guards, crash rails, and other materials used to protect walls and doors from damage. The questions in this guide cover key environmental considerations for products in this category. This category would also provide opportunities for health care facilities to earn USGBC’s LEED credits for sustainably built environments.
Type: Resources
Practice Greenhealth members were featured in “A profitable prescription: More US hospitals are going green to keep them out of the red” on the front page of USA Today.
The Aug. 10 article highlights how a growing number of health care systems are adding environmental improvements, which are reducing costs.
“We’re saving $1 [million] to $3 million a year in hard cash,” said Jeff Thompson, the former CEO of Gundersen Health System in La Crosse, Wis., the first hospital system in the U.S. to produce more energy than it consumed back in 2014. “There are multiple examples – at Gundersen and… Read More
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Reducing energy waste and procuring renewable energy are some of the most effective steps that our member hospitals are taking to reduce their environmental impact and protect community health. There are many reasons energy should be an area of focus:
Inpatient health care is ranked by EPA as the second-largest commercial energy user in the United States.
Health care facilities consume close to 10% of the total energy used in U.S. commercial buildings and spend more than $8 billion on energy every year.
The health care sector is responsible for 8.5% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions… Read More
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