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Purchase locally, sustainably, and equitably produced foods to increase the quality of food you serve, support producers in your community, and build a healthy, sustainable, and resilient food system.
Our guidance leads you through a set of local, sustainable, and equitable food purchasing strategies for authentically and successfully planning and implementing food service programs that can be tailored to help you achieve your goals.
Values-based purchasing
This phrase describes institutional purchasing that prioritizes a defined set of values beyond lowest cost. Health Care Without Harm… Read More
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Build a strong base for your food efforts through progressive policies and plans, engaged and empowered teams, transformative community collaboration, and supportive public policy and programs.
Health care institutions have an opportunity to influence broad food system impacts for their patients, staff, and communities – but to realize this potential it is important to first set the foundation.
Establishing progressive goals – based on a thorough assessment of current activities and designed with leadership, staff, and community input – will set your facility on the road to success. By… Read More
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Improve patient outcomes and reduce the prevalence and expense of diet-related diseases in your community by increasing and improving healthy food access and connecting patients to nutrition programs.
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By Kate Gottlieb, Practice Greenhealth sustainability strategy manager
I grew up in a temperate rainforest on the boundary of the Olympic National Park and the Quinault Indian Reservation in Washington. I have witnessed and experienced the effects of climate change. The melting of our local glacier has impacted salmon runs, rising sea levels and storms have threatened tribal villages along the coastline, and wildfires are becoming increasingly frequent.
As a mom of two, I believe it is my duty to show my boys how to be stewards of this planet. We pick up trash when we see it on the… Read More
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Build healthier food environments for your patrons through education, promotion, and marketing of healthy foods and beverages at your facility.
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Winslow brings exceptional project management and stakeholder engagement skills and a background in environmental conservation and resilience. He most recently worked at the Trustees of Reservations as associate field director, where he oversaw the stewardship of conserved lands across Massachusetts and worked to build an organizational culture around safety, efficiency, and collaboration. He is passionate about connecting people to the impacts of climate change on natural and social systems. He enjoys skiing, hiking, saltwater kayak fishing, burritos, audiobooks, and good (or bad) puns.
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Use this change-management approach to make the case for prioritizing food-related initiatives.
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Each year, Practice Greenhealth collects and reviews comprehensive sustainability data from hospitals that report through the Environmental Excellence Awards. We utilize this data to provide the sector’s best sustainability performance benchmarking data to hospitals and health systems working to build environmental stewardship into their mission, and to the greater health care supply chain partners that are integral to this work. This is the twelfth report in a series stretching back to 2009. This report lays out sustainability performance data for 2020.
The COVID-19 pandemic brought unique… Read More
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PRODUCT CATEGORIES
The Greenhealth Approved seal is currently applicable to products meeting Safer Chemicals criteria including:
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Products that improve on the categories* listed are being evaluated for inclusion. As the program expands, other sustainability factors may be included and evaluated.
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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 1,500 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.