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A poster promoting an Earth Day event sponsored by Washington Hospital and the city of Fremont, Calif.
Type: Resources
Environmental stewardship connects to population health, prevention, staff satisfaction, and performance excellence. Increasingly, health care leaders are connecting the dots and seeing that healthier food, for example, isn’t just about supporting local agriculture, but also about offering a single, programmatic focus connecting population health, community engagement, climate health, chemical avoidance, nutrition, multidrug-resistant organisms, satisfaction, and more.
Type: Resources
It is common for health care leaders to challenge proposed energy projects. How does Al Neuner, Geisinger Health System vice president of facilities operations convince his leadership to say “yes” every time? Learn the innovations and approaches Geisinger Health System utilized enabling them to earn a 100 Energy Star score while translating energy savings to human health impacts.
Type: Resources
Learn how hospitals around the world are saving water, saving money, reducing their environmental impacts, and improving their resilience to climate change.
Type: Resources
Webinar recording featuring hospital members sharing successes and challenges in water conservation
Type: Resources
In this webinar featuring EPA expert and a Mayo Clinic representative, Practice Greenhealth offers useful information on water conservation and pollution prevention.
A healthy water supply is essential for heating, cooling, and sanitation. Hospitals use a lot of water in these operations and therefore must be good stewards for their community, especially when there are external stressors to the system by record-busting drought and heat. Join two experts, one from EPA's WaterSense and one from Practice Greenhealth's Circles of Excellence in Water, Luther Midlefort Mayo Clinic, as they share… Read More
Type: Resources
Infection prevention and control in health care is of primary importance. However, some common ingredients in hand soaps used in the healthcare setting, including triclosan and triclocarban, can pose hazards for employees and the environment.
In light of environmental and human health concerns, Practice Greenhealth recently launched the Hand Hygiene Challenge to reduce the use of triclosan and triclocarban in the health care setting. In this session, learn how leading hospitals implemented policies to eliminate the use of triclosan and triclocarban in hand soaps, from commitment through… Read More
Type: Resources
This webinar provides a review of the potential for environmental and human healing with landscape management with a case study from various ecosystem-based projects. Jacob Blue reviews some of the most recent research regarding the role nature plays in human health as well as explore opportunities for improving the ecological health and function of landscapes. Following that, we hear a case study from NorthPointe and their lawn-free campus.
Type: Resources
Learn about Earth Day activities from 2019 through an archived webinar.
Join Practice Greenhealth’s Hermine Levey Weston, Kim Ray from Dignity Health and Samantha McKeough from HealthPartners for some lively presentations and sharing of Earth Day events. Learn what your organization can do to engage your staff and community in environmental stewardship for this year’s celebration of our planet Earth.
Learning objectives:
Identify fresh ideas to celebrate Earth Day in healthcare settings
Explore Practice Greenhealth Resources for Earth Day
Type: Resources
While crucial to patient care, the surgical department for many health care facilities can be a huge source of energy consumption, waste generation, and supply expenses, not to mention greenhouse gas emissions. During this call, we’ll examine the most recent Practice Greenhealth benchmark data and highlight national trends. We’ll share success stories from leading hospitals and lessons to bring back to your facility.
Type: Resources
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