Tools and resources

Sample community health needs assessment text

• Climate and Health
• Community Benefit
• Toolkit

(Delivering community benefit: Climate and health toolkit) This resource includes sample climate change text and sample community resilience text for community health needs assessments.  

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Less waste poster template

• Climate and Health
• Less Waste
• Poster

Highlight the less waste champions within your organization using this "It starts with us" poster template. Simply download this Microsoft Word document, customize with your organization's logo and employees' information, and save to a PDF to print.  

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Greenhealth cost of ownership product use data template

• Cost of Ownership
• Tool
• Toolkit
• Sustainable procurement

(Greenhealth cost of ownership toolkit) Use this template to capture data for the product scenarios planned for an assessment in the Greenhealth cost of ownership product use data template. 

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Legacy Health: Environmental considerations for relocation services contract

• Transportation
• Exemplary Document
• Legacy Health
• EPP
• Sustainable procurement

Legacy Health seeks to source products and services that minimize adverse environmental and human health impact. This sample contract includes environmental considerations for relocation and moving services. 

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HIPAA Compliant Data Amendment - sample

• Waste
• Recycling
• Waste Management

Sample HIPAA compliant data amendment for use in contracts with suppliers. 

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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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Greening the OR: template press release

• Climate and Health
• Greening the Operating Room
• Communications

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Greening the OR: Savings, trends, opportunities

• Greening the Operating Room
• Webinar

While crucial to patient care, the surgical department for many health care facilities can be a huge source of energy consumption, waste generation, and supply expenses, not to mention greenhouse gas emissions. During this call, we’ll examine the most recent Practice Greenhealth benchmark data and highlight national trends. We’ll share success stories from leading hospitals and lessons to bring…

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Webinar: Greening the OR energy efficiency with HVAC setbacks

• Greening the Operating Room
• Webinar

Reducing HVAC demands in ORs when they are unoccupied can save an average of more than $3,200 per OR per year. Speakers review air exchange rate operation and standards, reducing rates to minimum standards during unoccupied periods. 

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Webinar: Clinical engagement and emerging best practices in the OR

• Greening the Operating Room
• Anesthetic Gas
• Waste Segregation
• Clinician engagement
• Webinar

In the operating room, the stakes are high and moments count. Great measures are taken to prevent bad outcomes. At the same time, the most recent and conservative Practice Greenhealth (PGH) estimate places annual hospital waste at 5.9 million tons per year in the United States alone. Perioperative services is the single largest clinical generator of trash in all of health care, responsible for…

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