Tools and resources

Local and sustainable food tracking tool

• Food
• Local Food
• Food Tool

This tool is designed to support hospitals in tracking sustainable food purchasing and local food purchasing and aligns with the data tracking needs at Practice Greenhealth.  

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The Healthy Beverage Tracking Tool

• Food
• Food Tool
• Food and Beverage Purchasing

This tool supports food service facilities in tracking their purchasing of healthy beverages, as part of their Healthy Beverage Programs.

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Hackensack University Medical Center Sustainability Certification program

• Employees Case Study
• Employee engagement
• Hackensack University Medical Center
• Case Study
• Engaged Leadership
• Toolkit

(Employee engagement toolkit) Hackensack University Medical Center's Sustainability Certification program includes a one-hour lecture and thirty minutes for discussion. The educational content is in alignment with the Practice Greenhealth's six-category framework: Engaged leadership, leaner energy, healthier food, less Waste, safer chemicals, and smarter purchasing. The lecture connects these…

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Palomar Health: Sustainable, local, and organic food purchasing

• Food and Beverage Purchasing
• Food Case Study
• Food
• Case Study
• Food Service

With its position in the community, 4,400 employees, and over 2 million meals prepared per year, Palomar Health has a significant opportunity to make a positive impact on human health and the environment by serving more sustainable, local, and organic produce. This case study highlights this California health system's efforts to leverage the supply chain, collaborate with other hospitals, educate…

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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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2015 Environmental Excellence Awards Sustainability Benchmark Report

• Benchmark Report
• 2015
• Report

Practice Greenhealth’s 2015 Sustainability Benchmark Report highlights the achievements of the 2015 Environmental Excellence award winners—a set of 220 hospitals who are setting the standard for health care environmental stewardship. This year’s data set is based on reported activities during the 2014 calendar/fiscal year and is organized into ten distinct 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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2017 Sustainability Benchmark Data Tables

• Benchmark Report
• Data

Practice Greenhealth’s benchmark reporting represents the nation’s premier analysis of sustainability performance data for the health care sector. The 355 hospitals in this year’s data set saved more than $826 million on a range of different sustainable programs over the course of 2016, while deepening relationships with their communities and better supporting a more expansive definition of…

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Advocate Health Care: Food resolution antibiotics

• Food
• Antimicrobial
• EPP
• Purchasing
• Advocate Health Care
• Exemplary Document

While Advocate has a robust antimicrobial stewardship program for prescribing practices, the organization continues to purchase meat, poultry, seafood and dairy products that are produced with large amounts of non-therapeutic antibiotics. Their goal is to adopt a system-wide food procurement policy that includes the preferential purchasing of meat, poultry, seafood, and dairy products produced…

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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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