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2017 Award Winners
The 2017 Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellence Award winners were honored at the Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellence Awards Gala on the evening of May 18 in conjunction CleanMed 2017 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Congratulations to the winners.
Top 25 Environmental Excellence Award Honorees
Circles of Excellence Honorees
Greenhealth Emerald Award Honorees
Greenhealth Partner for Change Award Honorees
System for Change Award Honorees
Greening the OR Leadership Award Winner
Greening the OR Recognition Award Honorees
Making Medicine Mercury Free Award… Read More
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Health care’s opportunity
Our mission is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint and becomes an anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health and justice.
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Supply Chain Options to Reduce the Impacts from Freight
Purchasing Guidance - Specs/RFP Questions to ask Freight Carriers to Reduce Fuel Emissions
Hospital/GPO: Consider the resource above when purchasing distribution services and other contracts where products or services are delivered to hospitals. EPA's SmartWay Program provides an opportunity for hospitals, who ship and receive items delivered by truck or rail transport to join as a Partner to minimize the impact from fuel use by freight. Two action items to consider:
1. Hospitals can ask/require suppliers to be an EPA SmartWay… Read More
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By Janet Howard, Practice Greenhealth member engagement manager
Headquartered in vibrant Nashville, Tenn., HCA Healthcare (HCA) has more than 170 hospitals across the country and approximately 1,800 sites of care, including surgery centers, freestanding ERs, urgent care centers, and physician clinics. A member of Practice Greenhealth since 2009 and a founding sponsor of the Greening the OR Initiative, HCA’s environmental stewardship programming is framed around the importance of building healthier communities. Each of its hospitals has a sustainability lead, and many HCA hospitals have won… Read More
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How 1 hospital is saving $20k a month and reducing GHGs
By Kaeleigh Sheehan, Practice Greenhealth Greening the OR and member engagement manager
With mounting threats posed to human health from climate change, more health care facilities are focusing on opportunities to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. And anesthesia practice has come under an increasing level of scrutiny and interest since anesthetic gases (most commonly desflurane, sevoflurane, isoflurane, and nitrous oxide) used for patient care are greenhouse gases.
During a procedure, only about 5 percent of administered… Read More
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Julie Moyle, MSN, RN, outreach and engagement specialist
If your sustainability priorities don’t include a transportation program and strategies to reduce transportation-related emissions, you are missing a big opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). According to the Environmental Protection Agency, transportation as a sector is the fastest growing source of worldwide carbon pollution, and contributes 27 percent of annual U.S. GHGs, exceeded only by energy production/consumption, which comprises 29 percent of annual U.S. GHGs.
Coming soon: Transportation Goal and Toolkit… Read More
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Imagine a world where food is traced from farm to fork, using data that can be accessed at the touch of a screen. Photos, ingredients, micro-nutrients, packaging details, production location and sustainability attributes, etc. — all the information needed to make purchasing, dietary, and culinary decisions — updated by producers and manufacturers across the globe in real-time and available in detail on your computer, tablet, or smartphone.
For retail, restaurants, and institutions, purchasing local and sustainably-produced food is now common practice. In 2015, reporting Practice… Read More
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[From Ohio Hospital Assocation] The Ohio Hospital Association’s Energy and Sustainability Program teamed up with Practice Greenhealth to publish a collection of environmental leadership case studies highlighting how six hospitals and health systems have achieved success in environmental stewardship.
The collection of case studies describes the environmental efforts and successes of six OHA Melvin Creeley and John Chapman award winning hospitals:
88th Medical Group at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center
Mercy Health Youngstown Region
Mount Carmel… Read More
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By Sarah Spengeman, Ph.D., Health Care Without Harm Climate and Health program associate director
Have you thought to yourself, “How can my hospital or system step up its climate leadership?” If so, Health Care Without Harm has plenty of ideas for you, including a great example from Inova. Practice Greenhealth member Inova Health System in Northern Virginia recently worked with Virginia Clinicians for Climate Action (VCCA) to host a half-day conference for clinicians on the health impacts of climate change.
“Our changing climate presents an opportunity for clinicians to leverage their… Read More
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By Kaeleigh Sheehan, Member Engagement Manager, Greening the OR
Summer might be a time to slow down, relax, enjoy the longer sunshine hours, but for the Greening the OR team, the fun is just getting started! *That’s not really true, the Greening the OR fun has been going on for the last couple of years, I just wanted to start off with a cute saying. Here’s a recap:
GOR Resources
Practice Greenhealth collaborated with some key experts to provide guidance and respond to the many questions and confusion around HVAC setback as an energy reduction strategy in the operating room. If you haven’t… Read More
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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.