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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.
Type: Resources
This position paper describes health care’s role in protecting workers, community health, and the planet through procurement and advocacy.
Type: Resources
Introduction
Increasing seafood purchases, is a solid strategy for reducing meat while promoting human and environmental health. However, the lack of transparency – along with seafood’s numerous health, environmental, and social justice concerns – make it a particularly difficult food group to navigate. This guide offers seafood procurement recommendations based on sustainability, nutrition, social, and animal welfare concerns.
This guide’s recommendations complement existing third-party certifications and inform day-to-day purchasing when sustainability labeling and information is… Read More
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This resource includes the accepted certifications and label claims by product category for an organization to meet the food purchasing standards.
Type: Resources
Food purchasing standards: Accepted certifications and label claims by value category is a document to support organizations in navigating the criteria, definitions, certifications and attributes, measures, and strategies to support and evaluate values-based procurement efforts.
Type: Resources
Chefs and health care food professionals are reimagining hospital food’s potential one meal at a time. Using the health care setting to model healthier food choices and making more sustainable foods available to patients, employees, and visitors has many benefits including:
Improved health and well-being for patients, employees, and visitors
Increased reported satisfaction from both employees and patients on scoring measures
Enhanced employee productivity
Serving as a powerful recruitment tool and regional differentiator for attracting top talent to the hospital.
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A novel committee puts people experiencing food insecurity and professionals working to address food access on equal ground leading to innovative solutions.
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Environmentally sustainable businesses contribute to healthy ecosystems by improving soil health, increasing biodiversity, and reducing the carbon and water footprint of food production, while advancing public health and worker safety. Animal welfare encompasses all aspects of animals’ well-being, and high animal welfare is achieved when an animal’s physical, mental, and behavioral needs are met throughout its life. In this section, we outline purchasing best practices that address both environmental sustainability and high animal welfare.
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