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Plant Powered 30 is a 30-day challenge to inspire your employees to choose a plant-forward meal once per day (and hopefully more!). Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth have created all the promotional materials you will need to run this fun and engaging challenge for your employees.
Plant Powered 30 is part of Plant-Forward Future, a curated set of resources from Practice Greenhealth, Health Care Without Harm, and our partners that will help health care facilities set a plant-forward goal, menu and market plant-forward dishes, and track their progress.
Have you run Plant… Read More
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Scott has over 20 years of experience in consulting, relationship management, and nonprofit leadership, and brings a unique perspective to craft strategies, forge partnerships, and drive change. He earned an MBA with a sustainable enterprise emphasis from Willamette University's Atkinson Graduate School of Management and a bachelor’s from Utah State University. Outside of work, he serves on the board of The Wetlands Conservancy, and enjoys Oregon wine country, travel, and king salmon fishing in Alaska.
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Scott has over 20 years of experience in consulting, relationship management, and nonprofit leadership, and brings a unique perspective to craft strategies, forge partnerships, and drive change. He earned an MBA with a sustainable enterprise emphasis from Willamette University's Atkinson Graduate School of Management and a bachelor’s from Utah State University. Outside of work, he serves on the board of The Wetlands Conservancy, and enjoys Oregon wine country, travel, and king salmon fishing in Alaska.
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Through this session, we will share tactics to advocate for the importance of climate resilience planning, and identify unique challenges and opportunities for Great Lakes regional hospitals.
Discussion questions:
What climate change impacts are you witnessing or anticipating in your region?
How does climate resilience planning factor into public climate commitments?
What stage is your organization at in developing a climate resilience plan, from not working on this at all to establishing a formal, public-facing plan?
Type: Event
The U.S. Health Care Climate Council has welcomed two new members. University of California Health (UC Health) and Rochester Regional Health have joined the leadership body of health systems committed to protecting their patients and employees from the health impacts of climate change and becoming anchors for resilient communities.
As part of the University of California system, UC Health is working toward 100 percent reliance on clean electricity supplies across its campuses and UC Health’s medical centers by 2025. This dovetails with the university’s prior pledge to become operationally… Read More
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In 2018, Practice Greenhealth member Rochester Regional Health was selected as the inaugural winner of the Climate and Health Innovation Award, which recognizes a hospital or health system for innovative work addressing the health impacts of climate change.
Rochester Regional Health was chosen not only for their ambitious goal of transitioning to 100 percent clean electricity systemwide in under a decade, but also for their leadership in communicating that commitment to their patients and community.
“To keep the members of our community as healthy as possible, we must also do our part to… Read More
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Although many people have come to assume that applying pesticides is the only way to control pests and ensure a clean, healthy health care facility, this report shows that pests can be successfully managed without toxic pesticides and without having an adverse effect on the quality of patient care. Health care facilities have another opportunity to “first, do no harm” by changing the way they view pest control and by following this guide to safer and effective integrated pest management.
Type: Resources
Health care organizations play a key role in community resilience. Climate change, by increasing the intensity and frequency of some extreme weather events, is creating complex hazards that challenge accepted baseline assumptions for infrastructure capabilities, redundancies, and disaster preparedness and response—and this means a need for new building design thresholds. This government toolkit has been developed to assist organizations engaged in health care facility climate resilience as they improve their response to extreme weather events.
Type: Resources
As many businesses and organizations reflect on the rapidly changing social and economic context and chart new ways of working, the health care sector has a unique role to play in guiding how we will achieve a healthier and equitable future.
Health care systems must find ways to honor, maintain, and celebrate what makes their community distinct. Leaders will need to embrace the non-financial, intangible value, it creates such as leadership, transparency, intellectual and human capital, and culture. Together these contribute to the organization’s ability to continue delivering value into the… Read More
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Practice Greenhealth has been collecting sustainability performance data from hospitals and health systems for over 20 years. As sustainability expectations have evolved, Practice Greenhealth continues to refine the data and metrics we utilize to measure progress and benchmark performance.
Another way we are supporting our partners this year is by introducing a new set of resources to aid in improving data quality for the Environmental Excellence awards application.
Check out this series of short videos and guidance for each sustainability impact area including:
associated metrics,
key… Read More
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