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(Delivering community benefit: Climate and health toolkit) (ASTHO) Community health needs assessments (CHNA) and implementation strategies are newly required of tax-exempt hospitals as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. These assessments and strategies create an important opportunity to improve the health of communities. They ensure that hospitals have the information they need to provide community benefits that meet the needs of their communities. They also provide an opportunity to improve coordination of hospital community benefits with other efforts to improve… Read More
Type: Resources
(Delivering community benefit: Climate and health toolkit) (EPA) The Climate Change Impacts and Risk Analysis (CIRA) project quantifies the physical effects and economic damages under multiple climate change scenarios.
Type: Resources
(Delivering community benefit: Climate and health toolkit) (Catholic Health Association) Can community benefit programs that improve health also have a positive impact on climate change and the environment? The answer can be yes.
Type: Resources
Julie Moyle, MSN, RN, outreach and engagement specialist
If your sustainability priorities don’t include a transportation program and strategies to reduce transportation-related emissions, you are missing a big opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). According to the Environmental Protection Agency, transportation as a sector is the fastest growing source of worldwide carbon pollution, and contributes 27 percent of annual U.S. GHGs, exceeded only by energy production/consumption, which comprises 29 percent of annual U.S. GHGs.
Coming soon: Transportation Goal and Toolkit… Read More
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(World Health Organization) This document presents the World Health Organization (WHO) Operational framework for building climate resilient health systems. The framework responds to the demand from Member States and partners for guidance on how the health sector and its operational basis in health systems can systematically and effectively address the challenges increasingly presented by climate variability and change. This framework has been designed in light of the increasing evidence of climate change and its associated health risks (1); global, regional and national policy mandates to… Read More
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(Health Care Without Harm) The reversal of climate change will pivot around fundamental realignments in the ways that energy is created and consumed. The report provides detailed guidelines and case studies to help hospital leaders and facilities’ staff develop comprehensive strategies to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels through the use of “clean technology.” Its overarching conclusion is built on the premise that the health sector has a critical role to play in helping lead the transition to a fossil fuel-free and sustainable economy.
Type: Resources
Energy efficiency can enhance human health by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving outdoor air quality and decreasing acid rain. The energy needed to run commercial and industrial buildings in the United States produces 19 percent of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, 12 percent of nitrogen oxides, and 25 percent of sulfur dioxide, at a cost of $110 billion a year.
The health care sector is in need of cost-effective solutions to address the rising cost of energy and the health implications of energy use. Once a facility has developed an energy baseline by tracking and measuring its… Read More
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This event occurred as part of CleanMed 2024. For information about CleanMed, the premier national conference for leaders in health care sustainability, visit CleanMed.org.
In the ever-evolving health care landscape, the imperative to pioneer tangible solutions that encompass resilience, equity, and mitigation within organizations has reached a critical juncture. Yet, navigating this multifaceted terrain remains a formidable challenge. In this plenary, an esteemed panel of speakers shed light on the intricacies underlying these challenges, including the pervasive presence of departmental… Read More
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Leading U.S. hospitals recognized for transforming health care's response to the climate crisisRESTON, VA (DATE) – We are living through a historic convergence of global crises. Among them, the climate crisis stands as humanity's most urgent and widespread health threat – and also the greatest opportunity in a century to advance public health. Health care, with its healing mission and responsibility to protect community well-being, must lead the way toward a sustainable, low-carbon, and resilient future.Practice Greenhealth is proud to announce the recipients of the 2025 Environmental… Read More
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