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Edgerton (he/him) has over 30 years of sustainability experience in medical and residential architecture and construction. He previously spent 11 years as the sustainability and construction coordinator for Providence Health System in southwest Washington and finished his time with Providence as a facility engineering manager for two different hospital campuses. Edgerton joined Health Care Without Harm in 2020 and supports U.S. health systems in their efforts to decarbonize and to build climate resilience. He specializes in helping U.S. health systems develop comprehensive GHG emission… Read More
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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).
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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.
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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.
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Reducing water consumption is a great place for hospitals and health systems to start improving their environmental impact and sustainability practices. There are many reasons water is and should be an area of focus:
Hospitals use approximately 7% of all water use in commercial and institutional U.S. facilities, which is costly when the price of water has slowly been rising over the last decade.
By 2030, it’s estimated that global water supply will only be able to meet 60 percent of our population’s needs.
Though hospitals are often exempted from water conservation regulations in… Read More
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This resource includes the accepted certifications and label claims by product category for an organization to meet the food purchasing standards.
Type: Resources
Food purchasing standards: Accepted certifications and label claims by value category is a document to support organizations in navigating the criteria, definitions, certifications and attributes, measures, and strategies to support and evaluate values-based procurement efforts.
Type: Resources
Chefs and health care food professionals are reimagining hospital food’s potential one meal at a time. Using the health care setting to model healthier food choices and making more sustainable foods available to patients, employees, and visitors has many benefits including:
Improved health and well-being for patients, employees, and visitors
Increased reported satisfaction from both employees and patients on scoring measures
Enhanced employee productivity
Serving as a powerful recruitment tool and regional differentiator for attracting top talent to the hospital.
Greater food… Read More
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A novel committee puts people experiencing food insecurity and professionals working to address food access on equal ground leading to innovative solutions.
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Environmentally sustainable businesses contribute to healthy ecosystems by improving soil health, increasing biodiversity, and reducing the carbon and water footprint of food production, while advancing public health and worker safety. Animal welfare encompasses all aspects of animals’ well-being, and high animal welfare is achieved when an animal’s physical, mental, and behavioral needs are met throughout its life. In this section, we outline purchasing best practices that address both environmental sustainability and high animal welfare.
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