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This guide provides actionable steps and sample materials to assist health systems and community organizations in conducting an exercise aimed at identifying vulnerabilities and inequities and preparing for climate impacts.
Partnering for climate resilience: A practical guide to community-based disaster planning for health care provides a new approach to disaster planning and climate preparedness built on a partnership between health systems and the communities they serve working together to plan for and mitigate the impacts of climate change. The guide provides a playbook and sample… Read More
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Each year, Practice Greenhealth collects and reviews comprehensive sustainability data from hospitals that report through the Environmental Excellence Awards. We provide the sector’s best sustainability performance benchmarking data to hospitals and health systems working to integrate sustainability into their mission, and to the health care supply chain partners that are integral to this work. This is the 13th report in a series stretching back to 2009. This report lays out sustainability performance data for 2021 collected through the 2022 Environmental Excellence Awards.
A focus on… Read More
Type: Resources
This is an exemplary document from HealthPartners. The health system provided a list of Earth Day events for 2018 as a resource for its hospitals and clinics to support celebrations. Among them was an Earth Day Bingo game from Burnsville Park Nicollet. This Word document can be modified for your facility.
Type: Resources
HealthPartners has created an energy management plan that provides structure, guidance, and organization on how HealthPartners manages its operations, construction, and renovations with respect to energy efficiency. This plan focuses on integrating efficiency and sustainability strategies to improve performance, lower costs, and conserve natural resources and is intended to support enterprise programs by providing guidance and suggestions of best management practices that should be considered.
Type: Resources
HealthPartners demonstrates what a sustainability journey looks like by sharing their 2019 work plan, which includes goals and tactics. See why formalized goals are key to any sustainability program.
Type: Resources
HealthPartners outlines its charter and plans every five years and is a strong example of how a hospital or health system can create clear direction, processes, and accountability.
Type: Resources
HealthPartners is committed to caring for the places where we live and work so we can provide a healthier and cleaner community for our employees, members, patients and future generations.
View this resource to read the full environmental commitment statement.
Type: Resources
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
Sponsors and Steering Committee Participants: Developing the Greenhealth cost of ownership calculator
(Greenhealth cost of ownership toolkit) We are grateful for the participation and support provided over three years from over a dozen sponsors and steering committee participants who were tasked with developing a solution to a key barrier - cost - in transforming markets toward environmentally preferable products. The results of many months of work is the completion of Version 1.0 of the Greenhealth cost of ownership calculator to address the cost barrier and who shared the vision of… Read More
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The Climate Excellence Standard defines superior performance in decarbonization on the part of individual suppliers – including manufacturers and distributors – to ensure the health care supply chain is aligned with achieving net-zero emissions by 2050, while improving resilience. Reducing the health care sector’s reliance on fossil fuels is critical for reducing deaths and diseases related to greenhouse gas emissions, and the time is now for deep engagement across the supply chain.
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Use of the standard will include showcasing suppliers that attain climate excellence… Read More
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