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Join our expert Keith Edgerton for quick, digestible advice on calculating a complete greenhouse gas inventory. This 75-minute real-time solutions forum gave partners tips and tricks from other Practice Greenhealth partners. This session specifically focused on Scope 3 categories 5 (waste generated in operations), 8 (upstream leased assets), 11 (use of sold products), 13 (downstream leased assets), and 15 (investments).
Type: Event
Last year, Practice Greenhealth and Health Care Without Harm guided hundreds of hospitals and health systems across the United States to write climate resilience plans in alignment with the HHS Health Sector Climate Pledge. This session will provide a brief overview of the HHS Pledge and summarize key lessons to help you through each stage of a resilience planning process. Planners from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Seattle Children’s will share takeaways from their climate resilience planning processes and perspectives on the value and the future of their plans.
Type: Event
As a member of Health Care Without Harm’s U.S. Climate and Health team, Dresser’s work focuses primarily on climate mitigation and resilience projects in Massachusetts. Current initiatives in Massachusetts include the Boston Green Ribbon Commission Healthcare Working Group, where partner health care systems collaborate on their latest climate challenges. His background includes natural resource management and community-centric project management. He has an MBA in social impact from Boston University and a B.S. from the University of Maine.
Type: Event Presenters
The historic Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has the potential to significantly reduce the financial barriers for health systems to procure low-carbon energy alternatives by providing substantial incentives in the form of tax credits and elective pay options that encourage health care organizations to decarbonize.
Use our summary and deep dive to guide how your organization can utilize IRA incentives to advance climate- and equity-related work
We’ve outlined the specific components of the legislation that can be used directly by health care organizations to invest in climate solutions and… Read More
Type: Press
Three Practice Greenhealth partners share their strategies to reduce anesthesia gas emissions through the use of quality improvement projects focused on clinical education and interventions for propofol waste and a facility infrastructure project to reduce nitrous oxide.
Type: Resources
Free webinar: Co-designing with communities on climate resilience planning
Health Care Without Harm, Anchors for Resilient Communities, and Emerald Cities Collaborative are hosting a free learning session on co-design with communities and anchor institutions, such as hospitals and health systems, on climate resilience planning Sept. 12 from 1-3 p.m. ET, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. PT.
The virtual learning lab will cover co-design principles, such as power-sharing between institutions and communities, community governance, community-rooted decision-making, participatory funding, and more.
Community… Read More
Type: Press
Reducing emissions & increasing resilience: Learning from each others’ experiences
Together with our partners around the world, Health Care Without Harm convened representatives from 98 health care organizations spanning 20 countries to share their learnings from implementing decarbonization and climate resilience initiatives.
These workshops brought together health care leaders to discuss proven practices, share challenges, and collaborate on climate goals and strategies.
We’re delighted to share initial results of the Health Care Climate Learning Initiative with you today.
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Type: Press
Help shape the next CleanMed
CleanMed 2024 will bring us back together May 21-23 in Salt Lake City to connect, share, and build upon solutions for a more sustainable health care sector – and we want your help.
CleanMed is the premier event for leaders in health care sustainability and the only conference that connects you with those at the forefront of implementing climate-smart health care innovations and cost-effective solutions tailored to health care’s needs, goals, and mission.
The most impactful session topics come from you
The selection committee is looking for dynamic… Read More
Type: Press
Sustainability staff at Carilion Clinic walk you through their journey to develop the health system’s first Scope 3 emissions inventory.
• Learn about all 15 categories of Scope 3 emissions and how to develop your organization’s Scope 3 emissions inventory by using the new Health Care Emissions Impact Calculator for facilities and health systems.
• Understand which Scope 3 categories are easier to reduce than others and the challenges to reducing Scope 3 emissions.
• Develop strategies and an action plan to reduce your organization’s Scope 3 emissions.
Gain a basic understanding of each of… Read More
Type: Resources
One hundred hospitals pledge to create climate-friendly, plant-forward menus
Practice Greenhealth is celebrating a climate-friendly, plant-forward milestone: Over 100 hospitals have signed the Coolfood Pledge, an international, cross-sector effort to achieve a science-based collective target of reducing emissions from food by 25% by 2030.
Four hospitals joined the pledge when it was initially launched in late 2018. In June 2023, Northwell Health, which operates 21 hospitals and serves 10 million meals per year, became a signatory and helped the health care sector surpass the 100-hospital… Read More
Type: Press
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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.