Tools and resources

Environmental considerations for briefs and underpads

• EPP
• EPP Resource
• Sustainable procurement
• Guide

Suggested environmental considerations for contracts for underpads, diapers, and briefs to facilitate the purchasing process.

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Providence St. Peter Alternative Transportation Presentation

• Exemplary Document
• Providence St. Peter Hospital
• Presentation
• Transportation

Providence St. Peter Hospital promotes alternative transportation by communicating the benefits and offering information and incentives to employees.

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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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Circles of Excellence Honorees

• Awards
• Award Winner

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Climate and Health PowerPoint Presentation

• Climate and Health
• Presentation
• Education

Practice Greenhealth provides a presentation that can be used as a foundation for a discussion or community education event on climate and health. This slide deck is intended to give you a variety of slides that you can pull from, depending on your need. The slide deck goes through the background first: climate change science, health impacts of climate change, and different energy sources. Then…

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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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HealthPartners: Earth Day event ideas

• Earth Day
• HealthPartners
• Exemplary Document

This is an exemplary document from HealthPartners, a list of Earth Day events for 2018 the system created as a resource for its hospitals and clinics to support celebrations. Earth Day is coming up in April, and local engagement is important to our commitment to sustainability. In April, we hope you’ll help your team learn a little more about sustainability at HealthPartners – and maybe…

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Health Partners: Earth Day Bingo

• Earth Day
• HealthPartners
• Examplary Document
• Tool

This is an exemplary document from HealthPartners. The health system provided a list of Earth Day events for 2018 as a resource for its hospitals and clinics to support celebrations. Among them was an Earth Day Bingo game from Burnsville Park Nicollet. This Word document can be modified for your facility. 

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