Tools and resources

Guidance on renewable energy usage

• Renewable Energy
• Guide

Practice Greenhealth's Guidance on renewable energy usage provides detailed information on renewable energy credit (REC) retirement, sample use case scenarios and outlines alignment with existing reporting frameworks.

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Awards scoring resource

• Awards

This resource offers an overview of the way Practice Greenhealth scores award applications within the Environmental Excellence Awards system.

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What’s new on the 2020 award applications?

• Awards

This resource is an at-a-glance snapshot of improvements or new questions on the current year award applications. The changes reflected in this document are to help applicants quickly identify any changes to the application as compared to previous years.

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Health care's climate footprint

• Climate and Health

If the global health care sector were a country, it would be the fifth-largest greenhouse gas emitter on the planet, according to Health care’s climate footprint: How the health sector contributes to the global climate crisis and opportunities for action, a report by Health Care Without Harm in collaboration with Arup. The report provides the most comprehensive global analysis of health…

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Cool Food tracking tool

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Transportation toolkit executive summary

• Transportation
• Climate and Health
• Toolkit
• Executive Summary

(Transportation toolkit)  Practice Greenhealth is pleased to offer members a toolkit to help hospitals and health systems reduce their transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions. The goals aim to reduce employee single occupancy vehicle rates and miles, transition fleet vehicles to alternative fuels, implement idle reduction policies and practices, and work with supply chain…

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Executive summary

• Climate and Health
• Community Benefit
• Toolkit
• Executive Summary

(Delivering community benefit: Climate and health toolkit) This climate and health toolkit is designed to help environmental leads introduce a new framing of climate and health to their community benefit colleagues. It introduces tools and resources to help community benefit staff identify climate-related health risks in their communities, current projects that have climate co-benefits, and…

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UC San Francisco: Tasty food that just happens to be plant-based

• Case Study
• Food

  “I don’t sell plant-based, I sell delicious looking and tasting food that just happens to be plant-based."  - Dan Henroid, University of California San Francisco Medical Center  The University of California San Francisco Medical Center is a signatory of the Cool Food Pledge, a new platform to help hospitals offer diners more of what they want while slashing food-related…

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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center: Responding to customer demand

• Case Study
• Food

  “I just wanted to send some quick feedback about the menu.  The new lentils dish along with the tofu today were both fantastic!  I also especially like when you have legume-based salads as part of the salad bar.  In any case, thank you so much for continually expanding the healthy vegetarian options!”  - Medical resident at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center…

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How Stony Brook University Hospital reduced pharmaceutical waste

• Case Study
• Stony Brook University Hospital
• Less Waste
• Waste

  The problem It is estimated that over 30 million people in the United States, or roughly 10% of Americans, have diabetes. About 30% of people who have been diagnosed with diabetes are managed with some form of insulin. Additionally, many critically ill hospitalized patients who have not been diagnosed with diabetes will require insulin while in the hospital. It is therefore no surprise…

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