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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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A typical OR can make up half of a hospital’s aggregate costs, produce 33% of a facility’s waste, consume more energy per square foot than any other area of the hospital. Our Greening the OR experts host sessions to uncover new or best practice strategies in cost savings and efficiency improvement practices. Solutions discussed focus on not only maintaining quality patient care but also supporting staff and environmental health.
Target audience: sustainability leads, ambulatory services, operating room, physicians, and other personnel working on initiatives to make the operating room more… Read More
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Hospital and health system sustainability professionals from across the upper Midwest (primarily IL, IN MI, MN, OH, WI) share region-specific experiences and tips where climate, natural resources, and auto and agriculture industries may present barriers and opportunities to innovation and impact.
Target audience: Sustainability leads and other personnel located in the Great Lakes region mentioned above
Level: All (Beginners to advanced)
Facilitator:
Matthew PietroContact: mpietro@practicegreenhealth.org
“I really enjoyed the personal connection between cohort peers, a lot of… Read More
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Pest control in hospitals is important to maintain cleanliness and prevent the spread of disease. However, many pest control chemicals are toxic and can expose patients, staff, and visitors to harmful compounds, threatening health. Since hospitals are operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, there is no “after-business” window with reduced exposure risks to safely apply chemicals.
Hospitals looking to reduce the number of pest control chemicals used in their facilities are turning to integrated pest management programs that eliminate regularly scheduled pesticide applications. Instead,… Read More
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In 2022, over 600 Practice Greenhealth facilities signed onto the HHS pledge and publicly committed to "develop and release a climate resilience plan for continuous operations by the end of 2023, anticipating the needs of groups in their community that experience a disproportionate risk of climate-related harm." Drawing from Health Care Without Harm's resilience framework of "facilities, community, and public infrastructure," this cohort provides guidance and a structured approach for drafting climate resilience plans for health systems that have signed onto the HHS Pledge.
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The COVID-19 pandemic upended health care and continues to have lasting impacts on the way we deliver care. It brought significant shifts in hospital operations, from shutting down elective surgeries and reducing food service to dealing with monumental supply chain challenges and a rapid transition to telehealth.
Sustainability leaders at Practice Greenhealth partner hospitals remained committed to maintaining sustainable practices where possible and lending sustainability expertise to emerging challenges.
As the only organization collecting comprehensive sustainability data for the health… Read More
Type: Press
UPDATE: Environmental Excellence award application deadline extended to May 4, 2022.
Earn the recognition you deserve
Validate your hard work and continue making the business case for sustainable operations by participating in the Environmental Excellence Awards program, which is how Practice Greenhealth collects data to help hospitals measure their sustainability performance.
We all know you can’t manage what you don’t measure. By collecting and analyzing data, hospitals can generate the deep insights they need to guide their sustainability initiatives and improve their resource… Read More
Type: Press
The COVID-19 pandemic upended health care and continues to have lasting impacts on the way we deliver care. It brought significant shifts in hospital operations, from shutting down elective surgeries and vastly reducing food service operations to dealing with monumental supply chain challenges and a rapid transition to telehealth.
Sustainability leaders at Practice Greenhealth partner hospitals remained committed to maintaining sustainable practices where possible and lending sustainability expertise to emerging challenges.
As the only organization collecting comprehensive sustainability… Read More
Type: Resources
Before joining Health Care Without Harm, Erin led global programs at Bohemian Foundation, managing a portfolio of international grants and other investments addressing global challenges in health, poverty, and the environment. In this role, Erin also served on the executive committee of Big Bang Philanthropy, an international funder affinity group driving money to organizations with scalable, impactful solutions to poverty. As a foreign service officer for the U.S. Agency for International Development, Erin advanced global U.S. government efforts to end extreme poverty and to promote… Read More
Type: Staff
Matt Cox
CFO at Spectrum Health
Number of beds: 2,522 beds
Number of FTE: 31,000
Part two
Matt Cox has served as Spectrum Health’s CFO and the executive sponsor for the system’s sustainability program since 2017. In this second of a two-part feature on health care finance leaders and sustainability, Cox shares about Spectrum Health’s sustainable purchasing and decarbonization strategies and his advice for other CFOs getting started in sustainability.
Why does Spectrum Health belong to Practice Greenhealth?
I think that Practice Greenhealth is a true leader… Read More
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Practice Greenhealth is the leading sustainable health care organization, delivering environmental solutions to more than 1,500 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.