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Plant-Forward Future is 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.
11 hospital food champions told us what plant-forward means to them, now it's your chance. Share how you plan to shape a #PlanForwardFurture
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Type: Article
Dr. Aparna Bole is a pediatrician and national climate and health leader who has direct expertise in leading sustainability efforts for a multi-hospital academic health system. She is particularly interested in the intersection between environmental stewardship, environmental justice, and pediatric public health. Most recently, she served as a senior consultant in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Climate Change and Health Equity, and she is an adjunct associate professor of pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland. Bole has… Read More
Type: Staff
Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth have integrated their own climate resilience planning guidance with plan elements suggested by the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity (OCCHE) to create this recommended climate resilience plan outline for health care organizations. This plan will be updated periodically, in response to advancements in this work and learnings shared by those engaged in implementing climate resilience plans within their communities.
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By Lauren Koch, Health Care Without Harm climate and health program associate director
Let’s get one thing out of the way: I have been eying the GreenBiz conference for years. I was almost as excited to go to this event as I was for my very first CleanMed five years ago – almost.
I was positively giddy getting off the plane in Phoenix. (Temps were in the 80s, which didn’t hurt when you’re flying in from blustery Ohio.) With courses like “Building a New Carbon Economy” or “How Climate Resilient is Your Company,” I couldn’t sleep the first night, even with a generous dose of NyQuil to battle… Read More
Type: Press
(Delivering community benefit: Climate and health toolkit) This resource includes sample climate change text and sample community resilience text for community health needs assessments.
Type: Resources
Dignity Health manages its operations in a manner demonstrably protective of human health and the environment and seeks new and better ways to meet its environmental goals through conservation, reduction, reuse and recycling programs. Dignity Health is committed to improving environmental management in its hospitals and to partnering with others in its community to safeguard the health of people and planet. The purpose of this policy is to articulate a commitment to respect and protect Earth and its endorsement of the Ceres Principles for environmental protection and conservation.
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Type: Resources
Preparing for and investing in climate resilience can safeguard lives and an organization's financial viability. This customizable request for proposal (RFP) will help health care systems undertake infrastructure risk assessments and mitigation analyses for facilities facing extreme weather events and other climate risks. This template can help you identify and guide potential partners to explore improvements through enhanced maintenance, capital investments, and operations. It starts a process that can establish the foundations for financing and executing a long term Strategic Resiliency… Read More
Type: Resources
Sustainability made easy.
The HAN Impact Purchasing Commitment (HAN IPC) was developed by a design team of HAN members, in addition to Healthcare Anchor Network and Practice Greenhealth staff.
With more than 1,100 network partners, nationwide, many of which are already part of the Healthcare Anchor Network, Practice Greenhealth offers Commitment participants access to a suite of tools and resources to jumpstart any of the sustainability goals.
Watch this overview for more background and details about the sustainability goals.
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This less waste resource provides key guidance to help with your sustainability goals and daily challenges.
Understand why it’s important to commit to reducing waste.
Access step by step guidance on how to conduct a material and waste baseline.
Learn from case studies of success from Partners HealthCare, Vidant Health, Inova, and other systems.
Download the How to Guide, presentation with script and poster to help your facility further its sustainability success through waste minimization.
Access archived training on how to track materials and wastes.
Type: Toolkit
The health sector must work collaboratively with health care suppliers to decarbonize the supply chain and build climate resilience for the entire value chain.
“Catalyzing Collective Action to Decarbonize Healthcare: A Roadmap for Health Systems and MedTech Suppliers” was published in partnership with Kaiser Permanente, Accenture, Practice Greenhealth, and Health Care Without Harm. It consolidates feedback from a round table of health systems and their top suppliers, as well as group purchasing organizations, along with findings from additional subject matter experts and secondary research… Read More
Type: Basic page
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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 1,700 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.