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How success with reusables can inform goals
This session will share and celebrate success stories focused on increased adoption of reusable alternatives and reducing single-use plastics. Through an interactive activity, participants will discuss lessons learned and help each other identify strategies to apply to reusables goals.
Discussion questions:
What successes with reusables can you share with session participants?
What key lessons can you share with your peers, especially related to navigating the barriers of switching a specific product to a reusable option?
What strategies did… Read More
Type: Event
Tim brings several years of experience in the health care supply chain specializing in the operating room. He brings this experience and a desire to always learn and grow to drive environmental initiatives in health care. He is currently attaining his MBA from Southern New Hampshire University and holds a bachelor’s degree in exercise science from West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Through the pandemic, Tim reacquainted to the natural world and grasped the need to implement sustainability now more than ever.
Type: Event Presenters
Srini joined Seattle Children’s in July 2022 as the Sustainability Director. Srini holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Stony Brook University and an MS in mechanical engineering from the University of Washington. He is a licensed mechanical engineer (PE) and a certified project management professional (PMP) and has extensive experience building and leading environment and sustainability programs with previous experience in design and construction.
Type: Event Presenters
Declan leads the Emergency Management Program to ensure that BIDMC is prepared for any hazard that may shift normal operations and has experience implementing planning processes to reduce the risk to the organization, leading hospital-wide responses in emergency events, and maintaining regulatory compliance across multiple accreditation organizations.
Type: Event Presenters
Here you will find guidance, resources, tools, and ways to engage with your peers and other stakeholders across the value chain to support your food journey and help achieve your organization’s priorities and goals.
The way our food is produced, processed, transported, consumed, and disposed of has profound impacts on individual, community, and planetary health. Hospitals and health systems across the country are achieving their organizational priorities by focusing on food-related initiatives.
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Core values for a better food system
These values underpin the goals… Read More
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Avery leads the hospital in their environmental sustainability goals and strategic commitments through collaboration across multiple departments, including facilities, supply chain, support services, communications, and clinical groups. Her role is focused on minimizing the environmental and public health impact of all hospital activities while ensuring BIDMC delivers extraordinary and compassionate patient care.
Type: Event Presenters
Matthew supports the growth and advancement of environmental sustainability initiatives across the health care sector. Drawing on several years in dedicated sustainability roles within Northeast Ohio health systems, Matthew shares on-the-ground experience with hospital partners as they navigate their own paths forward. He has supported or developed health system programs focused on communication and employee engagement, green building, energy management, waste reduction, food sourcing, and other efforts centered on improving efficiencies and supporting health. Inspired by how the… Read More
Type: Event Presenters
Advancing health professional sustainability leadership in the Great Lakes region
During this session, we will discuss the importance of the medical/clinical director of sustainability role in advancing equitable, resilient, and sustainable health care, and explore how to engage health professional leaders within Great Lakes region hospitals.
Discussion questions:
Does your facility or system currently have a clinical/medical director of sustainability or equivalent?
How have you engaged health professional leadership in your sustainability efforts?
What local or regional resources… Read More
Type: Event
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
Type: Event Presenters
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.
Type: Event
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