Tools and resources

Employee home solar discount program webinar

  • Engaged Leadership
  • Employee engagement
  • Webinar
  • Toolkit
(Employee engagement toolkit) This program provides hospitals with an opportunity to allow employees to buy or lease solar systems for their homes at a substantially lower rate than the national average. Implementing the program at your health system or hospital provides a great incentive to engage employees and contributes to the resilience of their communities.

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A Sustainability Culture at Johnson & Johnson

  • Engaged Leadership
  • Employees
  • Employees Case Study
  • Case Study
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Employee engagement
Johnson & Johnson is composed of three business segments—Medical Devices, Consumer, and Pharmaceutical. This case study features an employee engagement strategy for Citizenship & Sustainability that began in the Medical Device businesses, which in 2014 accounted for approximately 37 percent of the company’s revenue, and includes brands such as: Ethicon, Depuy Synthes, Advanced…

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Case study

Advocate Health Care green advocates and sustainable work space certification

  • Engaged Leadership
  • Case Study
  • Advocate Health Care
  • Employee engagement
  • Toolkit
(Employee engagement toolkit) Advocate Health Care strives to create a culture of conservation and improve the health of people and the environment. At Advocate, sustainability initiatives are an important part of wellness and managing health care costs. Two of the programs developed to do this are the Green Advocate Program and the Sustainable Work Space Program.

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Case study

Beaumont Health System Green Officer Certification program

  • Engaged Leadership
  • Case Study
  • Employee engagement
  • Beaumont Health System
  • Toolkit
(Employee engagement toolkit) The Beaumont Health System Green Officers program is a voluntary program where interested staffers help communicate and educate others about sustainability programming at Beaumont. Any staff member can volunteer to be a Green Officer. The Green Officers act as role models to other staff through energy, water, and waste conservation practices, and they are trained to…

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Case study

Cleveland Clinic: Individual behaviors help reduce energy

  • Engaged Leadership
  • Employees
  • Employees Case Study
  • Case Study
  • Cleveland Clinic
  • Employee engagement
  • Toolkit
(Employee engagement toolkit) The rate at which Cleveland Clinic uses energy has financial costs, as well as human and environmental health impacts. Reducing the rate of energy used creates a cleaner environment, improves health, and delivers substantial cost savings over the short and long term. In pursuit of care affordability, over $12M of energy waste was identified across the health system.…

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Case study

Clinician Engagement & Education: NorthShore HealthSystem 2016

  • Waste
  • Medical Waste
  • Recycling
  • Exemplary Document
  • NorthShore University Health System
  • Presentation
  • Greening the Operating Room
Northshore University Health System has implemented waste management and recycling programs in the operating room. Employee education, staff engagement, and other initiatives have resulted in an increase in recycling rates and reductions in medical and solid waste. Open the presentation to see how Northshore was able to make sustainability improvements.

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Employee engagement poster: Ascension Borgess Hospital

  • Engaged Leadership
  • Exemplary Document
  • Employee engagement
  • Poster
  • Toolkit
(Employee engagement toolkit) This sample employee engagement poster features a staff member of Ascension Borgess Hospital explaining "why a healthy environment is important to me."

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Employee engagement poster: Gundersen

  • Employee engagement
  • Exemplary Document
  • Poster
  • Toolkit
(Employee engagement toolkit) This sample employee engagement poster features a staff member of Gundersen Health explaining "why a healthy environment is important to me."

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Employee engagement poster: Ridgeview Medical Center, sample 1

  • Employee engagement
  • Poster
  • Exemplary Document
  • Ridgeview Medical Center
This sample employee engagement poster features a staff member of Ridgeview Medical Center explaining "why a healthy environment is important to me."

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Employee engagement poster: Ridgeview Medical Center, sample 2

  • Employee engagement
  • Exemplary Document
  • Poster
  • Ridgeview Medical Center
  This sample employee engagement poster features a staff member of Ridgeview Medical Center explaining "why a healthy environment is important to me."

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