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Tools and resources

Leadership spotlight: Leslie Davis

  • Engaged Leadership
  • Leadership
Leaders learn best from their peers. The Leadership spotlight profiles highlight engaged leaders and engage other hospitals and health systems. These leaders recognize the opportunity for personal and organizational transformation and are ready to walk, talk and envision a healthier future – a future where planetary and human health are interconnected – where the Hippocratic Oath to "do no harm" …

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Leadership spotlight: Lloyd Dean

  • Dignity Health
  • Engaged Leadership
  • Leadership
Leaders learn best from their peers. The Leadership spotlight profiles highlight engaged leaders and engage other hospitals and health systems. These leaders recognize the opportunity for personal and organizational transformation and are ready to walk, talk and envision a healthier future – a future where planetary and human health are interconnected – where the Hippocratic Oath to "do no harm" …

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Leadership spotlight: Raymond J. Baxter

  • Leadership
  • Engaged Leadership
  • Kaiser Permanente
Leaders learn best from their peers. The Leadership spotlight profiles highlight engaged leaders and engage other hospitals and health systems. These leaders recognize the opportunity for personal and organizational transformation and are ready to walk, talk and envision a healthier future – a future where planetary and human health are interconnected – where the Hippocratic Oath to "do no harm" …

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Sustainability as a quality imperative at Virginia Mason

  • Employees Case Study
  • Virginia Mason
  • Employee engagement
  • Case Study
  • Toolkit
(Employee engagement toolkit) Virginia Mason’s award-winning environmental stewardship initiative, EnviroMason, is fully supported—from senior leadership to their team members. Sustainability is integrated into the everyday work along with patient safety and other organizational process improvement. The Virginia Mason Production System helps them identify and implement sustainability initiatives.

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Case study

2014 Environmental Excellence Awards Sustainability Benchmark Report

  • Benchmark Report
  • 2014
  • Report
Practice Greenhealth's 2014 edition of the annual health care Sustainability Benchmark Report, highlighting the achievements of the 2014 award-winning facilities. This report provides the nation’s most comprehensive analysis of how hospitals are progressing in their commitment to environmental stewardship. This year’s report is organized into ten separate benchmarking profiles on the different…

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2016 Environmental Excellence Awards Sustainability Benchmark Report

  • Benchmark Report
  • 2016
  • Report
Practice Greenhealth’s 2016 Sustainability Benchmark Report highlights the achievements of the 2016 Environmental Excellence award winners. More than 300 hospitals provided data for this year’s report, with combined savings of more than $92 million across a range of environmental program areas. The new report provides not only a benchmarking comparison for hospitals already engaged in the work,…

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Legacy Health 2016

  • Engaged Leadership
  • Exemplary Document
  • Legacy Health
  • Guide
  • Policy
The current sustainability program at Legacy Health is built around the Healthier Hospitals Initiative (HHI) model which includes six areas of focus: engaged leadership, healthier food, leaner energy, less waste, safer chemicals and smarter purchasing. In addition, Legacy has added commute trip reduction as a discrete category to the program. Even though significant progress is being made in each…

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Engaged leadership and the value of sustainable health care

  • Benchmark Report
  • Engaged Leadership
  • Report
  • Toolkit
In a shifting health care landscape, sustainability programs are a timely investment that can generate significant cost-savings while offering a range of co-benefits. Across the country, hospitals are taking leadership roles in their communities in advocating for more environmentally responsible operations, cleaner energy, healthier and more sustainable food systems, and a smarter supply chain…

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Engaged leadership

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Practice Greenhealth is the leading sustainable health care organization, delivering environmental solutions to more than 1,500 hospitals and health systems in the United States and Canada. Partnership opportunities include hospitals, health systems, community health organizations, NGOs, nonprofits, government, academic institutions, and the health care value chain.