Tools and resources

2020 Partner for Change (outpatient care facility) application (PDF)

• Awards
• Greenhealth Partner for Change Award
• Blank awards application

Blank copy of the 2020 Partner for Change (outpatient care facility) application for facilities with no overnight beds (outpatient care facilities, stand-alone laboratories, blood banks, or clinics). Please note: These documents will not be accepted as the application. The PDFs are only meant to assist at the beginning of the process. All applications must be submitted through the award system…

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2020 Partner for Change (long-term care) application (PDF)

• Awards
• Greenhealth Partner for Change Award
• Blank awards application

Blank copy of the 2020 Partner for Change (long-term care) application - For facilities with overnight beds and no operating rooms (long-term care, psych or rehab hospitals). Please note: These documents will not be accepted as the application. The PDFs are only meant to assist at the beginning of the process. All applications must be submitted through the award system at awards.…

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2020 Partner for Change application (PDF)

• Awards
• Greenhealth Partner for Change Award
• Blank awards application

Blank copy of the 2020 Partner for Change application - For facilities with overnight beds and operating rooms (acute care and critical access hospitals). Please note: These documents will not be accepted as the application. The PDFs are only meant to assist at the beginning of the process. All applications must be submitted through the award system at awards.practicegreenhealth.org.

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Environmental Excellence Awards: What's new in 2019?

• Awards
• Presentation
• Greenhealth Partner for Change Award

The what's new in 2019 presentation is a snapshot of updates to questions on each of the award application pages for the 2019 Practice Greenhealth Partner for Change application. This document is intended to help applicants quickly identify any changes to the application structure. 

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Greenhealth Partner for Change Awards scoring resource

• Awards
• Guide
• Greenhealth Partner for Change Award

Practice Greenhealth uses a number of criteria to evaluate Environmental Excellence Award applications in its efforts to recognize hospitals and health systems for their outstanding achievements. To assist Practice Greenhealth health care facility members in gaining an understanding of how applications are evaluated, Practice Greenhealth has put together the following overview on our scoring…

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Data 101 webinar series

• Webinar
• Data
• Awards
• Greenhealth Academy

The Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellence Awards is more than an awards program – it’s an opportunity to capture data on environmental quality improvement progress within hospitals and health systems.  Data is power. It has the power to demonstrate a return on investment. It has the power to implement positive change. When submitted through Practice Greenhealth’s Environmental Excellence…

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Delivering community benefit: Climate and health toolkit

• Climate and Health
• Community Benefit

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 how to integrate climate and health into the community health…

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Do no harm film

• Health Care Without Harm
• Video

Climate change is a medical emergency.  The health care sector has a moral mandate to respond and the power to be a tipping point towards a better future. Watch and share this Sundance-supported animated short film.

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Model integrated pest management contract

• Chemicals
• Integrated pest management
• Tool
• Exemplary Document

Your facility uses integrated pest management to alleviate pest problems with the least possible hazard to people, property and the environment. IPM emphasizes nonchemical strategies such as sanitation and exclusion to achieve long-term solutions. This model integrated pest management contract from the Beyond Pesticides and Maryland Pesticide Network may be useful as you facilitate your own…

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Model integrated pest management landscape policy

• Chemicals
• Tool
• Integrated pest management
• Exemplary Document

Your facility uses integrated pest management to alleviate pest problems with the least possible hazard to people, property and the environment. IPM emphasizes nonchemical strategies such as sanitation and exclusion to achieve long-term solutions. This model integrated pest management landscape and turf policy from the Beyond Pesticides and Maryland Pesticide Network may be useful as you…

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