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January 08, 2015 | by Sean Ruck , Editor-In-Chief
Janet Howard is the director of the Healthier Hospitals Initiative at Practice Greenhealth, a non-profit with the mission to improve the health of health care, both by creating a healthier environment for patients and professionals and by creating an overall healthier planet through educational efforts and best practices. HCBN spoke with Howard to get some more information on what the organization’s educating hospitals about in regard to food.
HCBN: How much of a shift has there been with hospitals looking to serve healthier food?
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Type: Press
Three Practice Greenhealth partners share their strategies to reduce anesthesia gas emissions through the use of quality improvement projects focused on clinical education and interventions for propofol waste and a facility infrastructure project to reduce nitrous oxide.
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
Imagine a world where food is traced from farm to fork, using data that can be accessed at the touch of a screen. Photos, ingredients, micro-nutrients, packaging details, production location and sustainability attributes, etc. — all the information needed to make purchasing, dietary, and culinary decisions — updated by producers and manufacturers across the globe in real-time and available in detail on your computer, tablet, or smartphone.
For retail, restaurants, and institutions, purchasing local and sustainably-produced food is now common practice. In 2015, reporting Practice… Read More
Type: Press
(Safer hand hygiene toolkit) In 2011, Providence St. Patrick Hospital set out to review the use of hand soaps containing triclosan due to emerging health and environmental concerns. New data and recommendations from authoritative bodies helped convince the Infection Prevention team that a switch was warranted. In 2012, Providence St. Patrick Hospital was able to eliminate triclosan from hand soaps in all areas of the hospital. The hospital changed to non-antimicrobial hand soap in non-clinical areas and a triclosan-free antimicrobial hand soap (containing chloroxylenol) in clinical areas. The… Read More
Type: Resources
Learn how hospitals around the world are saving water, saving money, reducing their environmental impacts, and improving their resilience to climate change.
Type: Resources
Find out more about the Cool Food Pledge in a free, 30-minute information session.
Tuesday, February 22 at 1:00 p.m. ET (10:00 a.m. PT)
Over 40 Practice Greenhealth partners have committed to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions from food through plant-forward action. Learn what it takes to become a pledge signatory and give diners more of what they want while slashing food-related emissions, saving costs, and improving health. Join health care leaders in the growing movement to tackle the climate impact of food, and hear stories from hospitals and health systems already seeing results… Read More
Type: Press
Each year, Practice Greenhealth recognizes an array of health care organizations for their environmental achievements. Outlined below are the different categories of recognition a health care facility or health system can win in 2021.
Environmental Excellence Award
The Environmental Excellence Award recognizes health care facilities that continuously improve upon programs to address sustainable operations, reduce and recycle waste, lower energy and water use, source more sustainable products, and more. Winning facilities have developed successful sustainability programs in a variety of… Read More
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(Bay Area Council Economic Institute) Climate change remains a serious threat to human health, and healthcare organizations in California, across the U.S., and globally can be catalysts in creating a climate-smart future.
California’s widely varying weather, coastal location, and large population mean the state is feeling the effects of climate change sooner and more severely than other regions. Severe heat waves, prolonged drought, uncontrollable wildfires, increased flooding, poor air quality, invasive species, and increased disease have already begun to impact every aspect of life in the… Read More
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
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