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Laurence W. Cohen is founder and CEO of Seven Bridges Advisors, a multi-family investment office for wealthy families and foundations. Previously, Larry was managing partner at Ehrenkranz & Ehrenkranz, a tax lawyer at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley, and McCloy and Shaw, Pittman, Potts, and Trowbridge, and clerked for The Honorable John Garrett Penn, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He served as Chair of the Brown University Investment Committee from 2009 to 2015 and Vice-Chair from 2015 to 2019, and also served as a member of the Brown University Corporation and its Executive… Read More
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Nikhil Sahni is a partner at McKinsey and Company, advising health care organizations on corporate strategy, business-unit strategy, inorganic growth, and operational efficiency, and a leader in McKinsey’s Center for U.S. Healthcare Improvement. Sahni serves as a fellow with Professor David Cutler at the Harvard University department of economics. In his previous role as senior director of strategy, planning, and operations at a health care IT company, he helped raise $25 million and tripled the company’s size. As policy director of cost trends and special projects for the Massachusetts… Read More
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Andaye Hill-Espinoza, MPH, serves as associate vice president of Core Tenet Programs for Responsible Sourcing at Vizient where she leads strategy to align health care purchasing with social impact, sustainability, and community resilience across the nation’s largest health care performance improvement network.Previously, Andaye led Protiviti’s Center of Excellence, advancing human rights due diligence and sustainable operations across sectors. She held key roles at Kaiser Permanente, where she helped design the $1B Impact Purchasing Commitment and developed cross-functional initiatives that… Read More
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James Dixon is a Chartered Environmentalist with over two decades of environmental sustainability leadership experience across complex public bodies (NHS/local government) in the UK. He has deep expertise in translating national environmental and climate policy into strategies that deliver impact and operational improvements. James has proven ability to build organisational sustainability capability, influence senior stakeholders, and champion the benefits of caring for people and planet. His time in local government contributed to Newcastle being named UK’s greenest city for two years… Read More
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Suzanne Savanick Hansen, Ph.D., has more than 20 years of experience leading sustainability programs. She launched a new systemwide sustainability program at Allina Health in 2020, where she spearheaded a climate action plan and is currently implementing system-wide initiatives to reduce waste, energy, and greenhouse gas emissions. She pioneered sustainability programs in the region when she coordinated the University of MN’s Sustainable Campus Initiative in 2000 and started the sustainability program at Macalester College in 2008. She earned a Ph.D. in conservation biology and an… Read More
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Mark has worked in the sustainability field for over two decades and over the years has led a range of programs, including SEI's College Sustainability Report Card, Billion Dollar Green Challenge, and GRITS web platform.Mark has had the pleasure of working with hundreds of institutions to help them with the development of internal green revolving funds and other sustainability initiatives. Over the years, he's been invited to speak at more than 125 universities, conferences and other events across the US, as well as in New Zealand, Australia, and Canada. He's a graduate of Berkshire Community… Read More
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The Health Care Emissions Impact Calculator is an accounting tool specifically designed to help health care organizations measure their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The calculator can be used to develop a GHG inventory at the facility and/or system level for all Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions.
Note: In order to accommodate data from multiple facilities, the system version will require you to enable macros. Learn how to enable macros by reading the instructions tab of the system version file.
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Want a constant stream of funding for your hospital's green projects? Or an innovative strategy to make your energy savings fund itself?A green revolving fund (GRF) is a self-sustaining pool of capital that finances energy-saving projects, with the resulting cost savings continuously reinvested to fund future sustainability efforts.Whether you are just starting to learn or ready to launch a GRF, listen to this recorded webinar to gain new insights and best practices. Expert Mark Orlowski of the Sustainable Endowment Institute outlined 10 steps to setting up a GRF, including identifying… Read More
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Gwyneth is a seasoned management professional with over 20 years of experience in public health, hospital administration, and higher education who excels at using quantitative analysis to understand complex problems and find practical solutions. She joined Practice Greenhealth after nine years as a director of professional operations at Boston Medical Center. She also worked in the Center for Clinical Effectiveness at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard School of Public Health, and for the procurement departments of Yale University and… Read More
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This document provides guidance for manufacturers wishing to meet Health Care Without Harm’s furnishing textiles criteria. The criteria applies to textiles used on furnishings, as well as those used to decorate and provide patient privacy, within the healthcare setting and builds off the Healthy Interiors Guidance criteria. Sustainable Healthcare Furnishing Textiles is meant to be a stand-alone category for textiles applied to healthcare furnishings, decor, patient rooms, and windows. Furnishing Textiles include:Upholstery/Leather alternativesWall CoveringsPrivacy CurtainsWindow… Read More
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