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Making climate action simple and deliciousThe Coolfood Pledge helps dining facilities – from hotels and restaurants to universities, schools, hospitals, and workplace cafeterias – cut their food-related greenhouse gas emissions by increasing and improving their plant-forward menu options.Why pledge?We make it easy The most comprehensive program addressing GHG emissions from food.All the data Data-driven with results you can see.Tailored to you Individualized technical assistanceIncluded Available at no cost for Practice Greenhealth partner hospitals (a $5,000 annual value). Participating… Read More
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Alice T. Chen, MD, is a mom, internal medicine physician, and national leader in public health, physician advocacy, and community organizing. She serves as chair of the board of directors of Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth. She was a founding board member and executive director for Doctors for America, a grassroots organization of physicians and medical students in all 50 states that played a key role in the passage of the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid expansion in multiple states and continues to advocate for policies that benefit patients. At the height of the… Read More
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Dr. Ronald Wyatt is a consultant, internist, and recognized expert in patient safety, process improvement, and health equity. He currently serves as a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and is the founder and President of Achieving Health Equity, LLC.Dr. Wyatt served as the first Patient Safety Officer at The Joint Commission. His leadership roles have included Chief Science and Chief Medical Officer at the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine, Chief Quality Officer for the Cook County Health System, and Chief Patient Safety Officer for the Hamad Medical… Read More
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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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