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The NorthShore Corporate Green Team provides and facilitates ideas and solutions to promote and sustain a healthier environment for staff, patients and their families, and the community. This is achieved by continuously assessing and implementing opportunities to improve consumption and waste management practices in an environmentally responsible, efficient, and cost-effective manner without compromising patient safety or care. The linked resource is an update on the team’s progress toward achieving better sustainability results.
Type: Resources
While crucial to patient care, the surgical department for many health care facilities can be a huge source of energy consumption, waste generation, supply expenses, and greenhouse gas emissions. During this call, we’ll examine the most recent Practice Greenhealth benchmark data and highlight national trends. We’ll also share success stories from leading hospitals and lessons to bring back to your facility.
Type: Event
View this session to gain a better understanding of how purchasing occurs at health systems and strategies for effectively engaging supply chain departments. Then hear from Vancouver Coastal Health about their Reusables First project – an effort to prioritize the purchase of reusable or reprocessable products over single-use ones to minimize waste and reduce environmental impact – which they carried out in close partnership with their supply chain.
Type: Event
More than 70% of a health system’s greenhouse gas emissions are embedded in the products and services they buy. As a resource-intensive industry with enormous buying power and the only industry with healing as its mission, health facilities are using sustainable procurement as a key action area for financial sustainability and for the benefit of patients, workers, the community, and the planet.
Featured in the groundbreaking new purchasing guide for health care, these 11 Practice Greenhealth member hospitals exemplify the many components of sustainable procurement, from eliminating toxins… Read More
Type: Press
(Employee engagement toolkit) At Metro Health, the commitment to sustainability goes beyond the innovative design features of the hospital. It’s evident in day-to-day business practices and ongoing strategies to conserve natural resources and promote a healthy environment. Over the past 10 years Metro has implemented numerous successful programs. Many of these programs in energy, waste and healthy foods are cornerstone programs that many employees benefit and directly help.
Type: Resources
Join our expert Keith Edgerton for quick, digestible advice on calculating a complete greenhouse gas inventory. This 75-minute real-time solutions forum gave partners tips and tricks from other Practice Greenhealth partners. This session specifically focused on Scope 3 categories 5 (waste generated in operations), 8 (upstream leased assets), 11 (use of sold products), 13 (downstream leased assets), and 15 (investments).
Type: Event
(Sustainable procurement guide) To reduce human health and environmental impacts of products purchased in health care, the standardized environmental criteria support identifying and purchasing sustainable products. The criteria address two important impact areas: chemicals of concern and waste reduction.
Practice Greenhealth has developed guidance for the criteria that explains to suppliers and health care organizations the intent, rationale, and applications to products. This includes technical details for manufacturing.
Type: Resources
This guidance document is part 3 of our series “Protection without pollution: COVID-19 waste-reduction strategies.” These three guides will help health systems, hospitals, and other health care providers set up successful immunization programs that protect the health of people and our planet.
This guidance is for health professionals who are using personal protective equipment (PPE) as they administer vaccinations. It will help vaccine site administrators ensure infection prevention while reducing unnecessary product use and waste. PPE is vital to protect workers and the public, but… Read More
Type: Resources
Water used in hospitals and other health care facilities comprises 7 percent of the total water use in commercial and institutional facilities in the United States. The largest uses of water in hospitals are cooling equipment, plumbing fixtures, landscaping, and medical process rinses. WaterSense at Work: Best Management Practices for Commercial and Institutional Facilities promotes water-efficient techniques that can be applied across a wide range of facilities with varying water needs.
Type: Resources
This Partner-only session will summarize key lessons gathered from Practice Greenhealth partners on the most effective ways to write climate resilience plans in alignment with the HHS Health Sector Climate Pledge. Planners from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Seattle Children’s will share takeaways from their climate resilience planning processes and perspectives on the value and the future of their plans.
Tuesday, Feb. 13 | 3 p.m. ET / 12 p.m. PT
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Type: Press
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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 1,500 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.