Tools and resources

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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Earth Day 2019 activities and ideas

• Earth Day
• Webinar
• Dignity Health
• HealthPartners

Learn about Earth Day activities from 2019 through an archived webinar. Join Practice Greenhealth’s Hermine Levey Weston, Kim Ray from Dignity Health and Samantha McKeough from HealthPartners for some lively presentations and sharing of Earth Day events. Learn what your organization can do to engage your staff and community in environmental stewardship for this year’s celebration of our planet…

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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…

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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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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: Effectively managing waste anesthesia gas

• Greening the Operating Room
• Anesthetic Gas
• Webinar

The energy and equipment needed to safely evacuate Waste Anesthesia Gas (WAG) in the Operating Room (OR) may be operating during unoccupied periods, wasting energy and wearing out equipment.  Concurrently, minimizing the atmospheric exhaust of WAG is considered a key strategy in reducing a health facility’s carbon footprint.  The global warming potential over 100 years (GWP100) of…

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