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Each year, Practice Greenhealth presents its Visionary Leader Award to a senior-level health care executive for exemplary leadership in advocating for and integrating sustainability and environmental stewardship into operational excellence.
Barbara Tretheway, HealthPartners senior vice president and general counsel, was selected for the 2019 honor.
“By starting our sustainability program, I was giving voice to the work already being done by our very committed employees and was deeply fortunate to have the immediate support and engagement of our board and senior leaders who could clearly see… Read More
Type: Article
The Climate and Health Innovation Award recognizes a Practice Greenhealth member hospital or health system for innovative work that addresses the health impacts of climate change.
The 2019 Climate and Health Innovation Award is given to NYU Langone Health for their efforts to validate and benchmark their climate resilience work and to contribute to an industry standard.
“NYU Langone Health is honored to be recognized for our extensive efforts to make our campuses and operations more resilient and energy efficient, especially in the face of an uncertain climate future,” said Paul… Read More
Type: Article
Beaumont Health System Royal Oak Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., worked with suppliers to reduce waste from the operating room by evaluating the use of reusable as alternatives to disposable surgical instruments.
In 2013 Beaumont received a Partner for Change award from Practice Greenhealth, the nation’s leading health care membership community. Today Beaumont is a leader in sustainable health care in Michigan.
The hospital worked with Surgitech and Aesculap, Inc., to try a new reusable trocar as an alternative to traditional, single-use disposable trocars. They looked at the doctor… Read More
Type: Resources
Food Day is an annual event on Oct. 24 that inspires Americans to change not only their diets but also our food system. But for hospitals in our network, it’s Food Day every day. Food service directors, chefs, nutritionists, and other hospital leaders who are taking action to source local and sustainable ingredients, serve more plant-centered meals, and reduce food waste are working to build and support strong local food systems and economies, increase the health and well-being of those they serve, and reduce their impact on the planet.
Here are stories of what they’ve accomplished over the… Read More
Type: Press
The U.S. Health Care Climate Council has welcomed two new members. University of California Health (UC Health) and Rochester Regional Health have joined the leadership body of health systems committed to protecting their patients and employees from the health impacts of climate change and becoming anchors for resilient communities.
As part of the University of California system, UC Health is working toward 100 percent reliance on clean electricity supplies across its campuses and UC Health’s medical centers by 2025. This dovetails with the university’s prior pledge to become operationally… Read More
Type: Press
This Employee engagement resource provides partners with sustainability goals and addresses daily challenges.
Learn why it’s important to engage workers and how University Hospitals Health System, Cleveland Clinic, Inova Health, Advocate Health care, and other systems are engaging staff to deepen or broaden the impacts of their sustainability programs.
Included in this suite of resources is a white paper, presentation with script, case studies and posters to help your facility further its sustainability success through employee engagement.
Type: Toolkit
Practice Greenhealth’s Healthy Interiors goal promotes public and environmental health and helps accelerate the transformation of the furnishings market to safer products.
What is Practice Greenhealth’s Healthy Interiors goal?
Ensure that 30% of the annual volume of furnishings and furniture purchases (based on cost) eliminate the use of formaldehyde, perfluorinated compounds, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), antimicrobials*, and all flame retardants**.
When chemical flame retardants are necessary to meet code requirements, use chemicals that meet GreenScreen Benchmark 3 or 4 or… Read More
Type: Resources
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This document provides guidance for hospitals working to meet the polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and the plasticizer di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) elimination goal of the safer chemicals challenge.
Type: Resources
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