Tools and resources

Circles of Excellence Honorees

• Awards

The Circle of Excellence Awards celebrate hospitals who have not only earned an award for all-around sustainability achievement, but who have also been identified as the top scoring programs for each category of sustainability. LEADERSHIP CIRCLE It all starts with leadership. The Leadership Circle represents the high-performing hospitals that have a strong infrastructure supporting a long term…

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Greenhealth Cost of Ownership Calculator v1.1

• Cost of Ownership
• Supply Chain
• Calculator
• Toolkit

(Greenhealth cost of ownership toolkit) Hospitals and group purchasing organizations (GPO) can use this calculator to account for many environmental costs that occur from the purchase of products through to their disposal. By considering costs beyond the product purchase price, such as energy and water the product can require, any supplemental parts and end of life disposal, the calculator allows…

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Health care water conservation and pollution prevention presentation

• Water
• Less Water
• Presentation

This Practice Greenhealth presentation on water conservation covers water consumption, opportunities for conservation, best practices, and successes and includes real-world examples from member institutions.

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SBAR Title: Water Conservation

• Water
• Less Water
• Guide
• Presentation

Practice Greenhealth provides a PowerPoint template for creating an SBAR (Situation, Background, Analysis, Recommendation) presentation with questions to consider and suggestions for content.

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Best Practices in energy efficiency

• Best Practices
• Energy
• Energy Efficiency

Energy efficiency can enhance human health by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving outdoor air quality and decreasing acid rain. The energy needed to run commercial and industrial buildings in the United States produces 19 percent of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, 12 percent of nitrogen oxides, and 25 percent of sulfur dioxide, at a cost of $110 billion a year. The health care sector is…

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Appliances

• EPP
• EPP Resource

RFP Questions Refrigerators Ice Machines and Water Coolers 

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Webinar: Energy and water benchmarking for hospitals

• Water
• Webinar
• Energy
• Toolkit

(Less water toolkit) Energy benchmarking tools keep evolving, and water is an increasingly precious resource that also merits analysis. Checking your patterns of consumption and comparing them with those of your peers in the healthcare industry can provide invaluable insight, and spark ideas for money-saving improvements. Using information from Grumman/Butkus Associates' annual healthcare…

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Webinar: Water conservation and pollution prevention best practices

• Water
• Webinar
• Mayo Clinic

In this webinar featuring EPA expert and a Mayo Clinic representative, Practice Greenhealth offers useful information on water conservation and pollution prevention. A healthy water supply is essential for heating, cooling, and sanitation. Hospitals use a lot of water in these operations and therefore must be good stewards for their community, especially when there are external stressors to the…

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Sharing Call: Water, Health Care and the Drought of 2015

• Water
• Webinar

Webinar recording featuring hospital members sharing successes and challenges in water conservation

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Webinar: Worldwide Water Wisdom

• Webinar
• Water

Learn how hospitals around the world are saving water, saving money, reducing their environmental impacts, and improving their resilience to climate change.

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