Tools and resources

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 commonly used…

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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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Webinar: Ecological designer's perspective on climate, health and landscaping

• Water
• Webinar
• Green Building
• Buildings

This webinar provides a review of the potential for environmental and human healing with landscape management with a case study from various ecosystem-based projects. Jacob Blue reviews some of the most recent research regarding the role nature plays in human health as well as explore opportunities for improving the ecological health and function of landscapes. Following that, we hear a case…

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Webinar: Safer Hand Hygiene: The case for eliminating triclosan and triclocarban

• Chemicals
• Hand Hygiene

Infection prevention and control in health care is of primary importance. However, some common ingredients in hand soaps used in the healthcare setting, including triclosan and triclocarban, can pose hazards for employees and the environment. In light of environmental and human health concerns, Practice Greenhealth recently launched the Hand Hygiene Challenge to reduce the use of triclosan and…

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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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Webinar: When Leaders Say "Yes" to Energy

• Leadership
• Webinar
• Energy

It is common for health care leaders to challenge proposed energy projects. How does Al Neuner, Geisinger Health System vice president of facilities operations convince his leadership to say “yes” every time? Learn the innovations and approaches Geisinger Health System utilized enabling them to earn a 100 Energy Star score while translating energy savings to human health impacts.

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Connecting the dots: Synergies with existing health care priorities

• Engaged Leadership
• Employee engagement

Environmental stewardship connects to population health, prevention, staff satisfaction, and performance excellence. Increasingly, health care leaders are connecting the dots and seeing that healthier food, for example, isn’t just about supporting local agriculture, but also about offering a single, programmatic focus connecting population health, community engagement, climate health, chemical…

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