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The what's new in 2019 presentation is a snapshot of updates to questions on each of the award application pages for the 2019 Practice Greenhealth Partner for Change application. This document is intended to help applicants quickly identify any changes to the application structure.
Type: Resources
(Transportation toolkit) Employee commute surveys and data collection may also be administered by state, regional, and municipal transit authorities, non-profit organizations, and business partners. These are acceptable sources for reporting and tracking employee single-occupancy vehicles and vehicle-miles-traveled rates.
Type: Resources
(Anesthetic gas toolkit) Learn from our international partner, Global Green and Healthy Hospital initiative, about strategies used and lessons learned at Middlemore Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand, to engage anesthesia providers and reduce GHG emissions from anesthetic gases.
Type: Resources
Practice Greenhealth has been recognizing environmental excellence in health care sustainability since the Awards program inception in 2002. This is the fourth annual benchmark report, based on data supplied in applications by 2012 Partner for Change (PFC) and Environmental Leadership Circle (ELC) award winners.
Type: Resources
Practice Greenhealth has been recognizing environmental excellence in health care sustainability since the Awards program inception in 2002. This is the third annual benchmark report, based on data supplied in applications by 2011 Partner for Change (PFC) and Environmental Leadership Circle (ELC) award winners.
Type: Resources
Inova Health System is committed to creating an environmental program that contributes to a safer and healthier environment for patients, employees and community. Inova’s Supplier Sustainability Code of Conduct shares our value to work with suppliers and partners that are committed to integrating environmentally sustainability principles in their practices and conduct themselves accordingly.
Type: Resources
The COVID-19 pandemic upended health care and continues to have lasting impacts on the way we deliver care. It brought significant shifts in hospital operations, from shutting down elective surgeries and vastly reducing food service operations to dealing with monumental supply chain challenges and a rapid transition to telehealth.
Sustainability leaders at Practice Greenhealth partner hospitals remained committed to maintaining sustainable practices where possible and lending sustainability expertise to emerging challenges.
As the only organization collecting comprehensive sustainability… Read More
Type: Resources
(Health Care Without Harm) This brief contains recommendations to assist community benefit staff and community partners in conducting program evaluation for healthy food access programs. It contains guidance for evaluation planning and links out to validated, frequently used surveys and data collection tools to bolster support for programs nationally and develop a common set of indicators, measures, and methods.
Type: Resources
(Anesthetic gas toolkit) Purchasing new anesthesia machines presented an opportunity for the sustainability and anesthesia teams at Harborview Medical Center to partner with supply chain and clinical engineering to select equipment with environmental attributes like fresh gas flow monitors. New machines helped the organization reduce GHG emissions and costs related to anesthetic gases.
Type: Resources
Practice Greenhealth has been recognizing environmental excellence in health care sustainability since the Awards program inception in 2002. This is the second annual benchmark report, based on data supplied in applications by 2010 Partner for Change (PFC) and Environmental Leadership Circle (ELC) award winners. The data mirrors the order of the 2010 applications so it can be used to compare a facility to national averages and top performers.
Type: Resources
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