(Transportation toolkit) This toolkit is designed to help hospitals and health systems reduce their transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions.
(Delivering community benefit: Climate and health toolkit) Addressing social and environmental determinants of health to create resilient communities
This guide assists hospitals in achieving the Healthy Flooring goal, which targets the elimination of chemicals and materials in flooring that can contribute to negative health effects, including asthma, and cancer.
This document provides guidance for manufacturers wishing to meet Health Care Without Harm’s Healthy Flooring criteria.
This brief provides an overview of secondary data sources to assess food access, food environments, and diet-related health needs commonly used in community health needs assessments.
Understanding the community food environment and landscape of community food resources is an essential component of any community health needs assessment (CHNA) and health improvement planning process.
This is a comprehensive and vetted list of third-party certifications and label claims that Practice Greenhealth has determined to be highly meaningful.
With 17 percent of the marketplace, health care wields major purchasing power. This buying clout puts hospitals and health systems in an excellent position to demand safer, healthier, more environmentally-friendly products from vendors.
(Anesthetic gas toolkit) Anesthetic gases are scope 1 GHG emissions, and the systems in place to deliver and remove those gases from the OR consume a lot of energy. Learn about strategies to reduce anesthetic gas consumption and reduce energy.
(Anesthetic gas toolkit) Provider education at Western Health in Melbourne, Australia, resulted in practice change, saving the organization $22,500 and reducing emissions by 140 MTCO2e annually.
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