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Leadership data is focused on the infrastructure, processes, accountabilities, and engagement mechanisms for sustainability at the facility level. These data points are largely focused on narrative descriptions and supporting policies or plans.
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Developing a robust waste baseline is a foundational element in setting waste reduction goals and targets. Identifying different waste stream volumes can be complex and may require interaction with a variety of waste haulers and/or vendors. Many hospitals find that data on waste streams has not historically been tracked at a granular level.
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Mercury reduction policies are among the most common environmental commitments in health care. Mercury is toxic to human health, posing a particular threat to the development of the child. To target mercury reduction and elimination as a goal, hospitals and health systems first need to assess where mercury is found within their facilities, which might include:
Clinical devices, such as thermometers, sphygmomanometers, esophageal bougies and dilators, certain tubing, and dental amalgam
Facility equipment, such as switches, relays, thermostats, fluorescent lamps and light bulbs, and batteries… 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 has continued to refine the data and metrics we utilize to measure progress and benchmark performance. Below are some helpful tips to help ensure you are collecting and providing data in the correct format – which supports your scores on the application and better trend analysis for the sector.
Before starting your application, be sure to review our advice and five tips for success below.
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Practice Greenhealth’s virtual cohorts have been facilitating meaningful dialogue among groups of sustainability and health care professionals for over five years. We continue to orchestrate change in the health care community by bringing together peers and experts to develop new strategies to overcome barriers and challenges to implementing sustainability initiatives.
As 2022 begins, we invite you to engage with the leaders and innovators available as part of Practice Greenhealth's virtual cohorts to advance your sustainability efforts this year.
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Over seventy Practice Greenhealth partners have committed to reducing their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from food through plant-forward action through their commitment to the Cool Food Pledge. This cohort includes a mixture of levels of experience in executing plant-forward concepts which creates a good opportunity for peer-to-peer learning. Members will have the opportunity to share marketing and menuing strategies as well as data collection methodologies.
Target audience: Personnel responsible for implementing the Cool Food Pledge Level: Intermediate to advanced
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An academic medical center is a tertiary care hospital that is organizationally and administratively integrated with a medical school. The hospital is the principal site for the education of both medical students and postgraduate medical trainees. Often situated on or near a college or university campus, working together with the host institution and campus may be complicated. Now more than ever, medical and nursing students recognize climate change as an urgent threat to health and social justice.
Launched in 2023, the Climate Action and Sustainability in Academic Medicine Community forum… Read More
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CleanMed 2022 is going to Kansas City, Missouri, May 10-12. After a challenging couple of years for the health care sector and the planet, we’re ready to get back together. Even though the pandemic has fundamentally changed the health care landscape around the world, it hasn’t changed our partners’ commitment to environmental sustainability and climate change work. That’s why we’re excited to be coming together in 2022.
Registration is now open at cleanmed.org.
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The Healthy Interiors Cohort provides a venue for health systems to share best practices, lessons learned, and troubleshoot any challenges with one another, in order to be able to most effectively achieve Practice Greenhealth's goals for interior building products. Facilities are invited to bring to the cohort their design and construction, EVS, and other staff members who are involved in the selection, installation, or maintenance of building products. Some sessions will also support the achievement of the Healthy Interiors goal included in the Impact Purchasing Commitment.
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This toolkit introduces the core elements of antimicrobial stewardship for health care facilities and health professionals and offers some important strategies for becoming an effective policy advocate.
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