Tools and resources
Featured Tools & Resources
2024 sustainability benchmark data
- Benchmark Report
2023 sustainability data
- Benchmark Report
Sustainable waste process planning template and training
This template provides one-size-fits-all guidance to help health care organizations achieve successful waste management programs or projects. It outlines a new, standardized process for gathering the information necessary to design sustainable waste management solutions, optimize your project or program’s success, and develop a proposal for leadership buy-in. Successfully implementing a…
Strategies to reduce anesthesia gas
Three Practice Greenhealth partners share their strategies to reduce anesthesia gas emissions through the use of quality improvement projects focused on clinical education and interventions for propofol waste and a facility infrastructure project to reduce nitrous oxide.
Collaborating to prevent Nitrous Oxide waste in medical gas systems
Several Pacific Northwest sustainability leads were inspired by the collaborative research, assessment, and solutions developed by Dr. Brian Chesebro and Andy Mason from Providence St. Vincent Medical Center that was presented during the 2022 CleanMed Conference. With continued interest, the group convened a collaborative to expand their solutions across the region with the goal of transforming…
2021 Sustainability Data
- Benchmark Report
Food waste solutions: Waste tracker
- food waste
- Waste
Sutter Health: Food recovery for healthier communities
“Not only does this project impact greenhouse gasses from keeping food waste out of the landfill, it is also about dollars saved, which is important to hospital administrators, and then there is the food rescue piece which is what is really important to our community.” – Jack Breezee, Sutter Health regional director of food and nutrition services Sutter Health knew they were wasting food…
Meeting California's climate & organic waste challenges
Hospitals across California are required to be in compliance with the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery organic waste reduction mandates. California has implemented several regulations to increase the diversion of organic materials away from landfills and toward the production of value-added products like compost, fertilizers, and biofuels. California disposes…
2022 sustainability data
- Benchmark Report
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