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While Advocate has a robust antimicrobial stewardship program for prescribing practices, the organization continues to purchase meat, poultry, seafood and dairy products that are produced with large amounts of non-therapeutic antibiotics. Their goal is to adopt a system-wide food procurement policy that includes the preferential purchasing of meat, poultry, seafood, and dairy products produced without the use of non-therapeutic antibiotics.
Type: Resources
Are you ready to join our champions?Health care culinary professionals across the country are taking their menus to new levels in creativity and flavor, all powered by plants. The contest runs from Oct. 1 to Nov. 30. Elevate your hard work and creativity while spotlighting your hospital’s plant-forward commitment to a national audience.Get inspiration from the latest winner Chef Luis Santos from Keck Hospital of USC, and explore the 100+ plant-forward recipes from previous Health Care Culinary Contest participants in our database. Get cooking
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Robert (he/him) is the Assistant Director for Planning, Operations, and Analytics in the Department of Emergency Preparedness and Continuity at Mass General Brigham. With over a decade of experience in health care emergency planning, he manages various components of the health system’s emergency preparedness and response programs, including risk assessment and mitigation, emergency plan development, training and exercise design, process improvement, and regulatory readiness. Robert holds a master’s degree in healthcare emergency management from Boston University School of Medicine.
Type: Event Presenters
Emily Bancroft is the Chief Executive Officer of Health Care Without Harm, a global nonprofit working to transform health care into a force for environmental health, equity, and climate resilience.Emily brings more than two decades of experience leading health systems innovation and advancing health equity across the globe. Prior to joining Health Care Without Harm, she served as President and CEO of VillageReach, where she expanded the organization’s work across more than a dozen countries, forged cross-sector partnerships, and helped deliver people-centered health solutions that reached… Read More
Type: Staff
Essential hospitals are finding cost-effective clean energy solutions despite federal funding cuts and increasing extreme weather events. Practice Greenhealth partners Grady Memorial Hospital, Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital, and Jackson South Medical Center demonstrate this forward-thinking approach.Through strategic audits and partnerships, these hospitals identified transformative energy efficiency opportunities, including onsite energy generation, heat recovery systems, and renewable energy installations.The financial impact is significant. Practice Greenhealth data reveals hospitals… Read More
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Tory Dietel Hopps is a social, environmental, gender and financial activist. In 2007, she joined her father Bill and sister Betsy in creating Dietel Pickering & Partners, where she helps clients align their giving with their values. For 25 years prior to Dietel Pickering & Partners, Tory focused on resource development, nonprofit management and governance in education, environment, health and human services. She served as a principal of Turning Point Consulting, specializing in strategic planning and organizational capacity building for nonprofits. She currently serves as an advisor… Read More
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A better option for hydration and quenching thirst than sugar-sweetened beverages is water, and in the United States, tap water has been proven to be just as safe, or safer, than the bottled version.
This poster from Amery Hospital displays 10 ways to make drinking water more flavorful.
Type: Resources
Adele Houghton, FAIA, DrPH, LEED AP, is President of Biositu, LLC, where she works at the intersection of buildings, public health, and climate change. She is a member of the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows and received a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she also teaches. Her book Architectural Epidemiology (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025), co-authored with Professor Carlos Castillo-Salgado of Johns Hopkins University, proposes a novel method for architectural design: combining neighborhood-scale… Read More
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Aparna Bole, MD is a pediatrician in Cleveland, Ohio, whose work centers on the intersection of environmental stewardship, justice, and pediatric health. Her leadership has focused on the health impacts of climate change, the child health benefits of climate solutions, and advancing climate-smart, resilient healthcare delivery. Dr. Bole is a current member and past chair of the Health Care Without Harm board of directors, and also serves on the boards of Climate Central and Environmental Health Watch. She has held national and state leadership roles with the U.S. Department of Health and… Read More
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Why sharing your sustainability story still mattersIn today’s complex and often polarized landscape, many organizations are carefully weighing how and when to talk about their climate and sustainability work. The risks of being misunderstood or politicized are real, and for some, staying quiet feels like the safer choice.But thoughtful communication is still possible and powerful. Even in a cautious environment, there are ways to share your progress with integrity, transparency, and care.A growing trend known as greenhushing describes the decision to downplay or stay silent about… Read More
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