Tools and resources

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…

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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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Employee home solar discount program webinar

• Engaged Leadership
• Employee engagement
• Webinar
• Toolkit

(Employee engagement toolkit) This program provides hospitals with an opportunity to allow employees to buy or lease solar systems for their homes at a substantially lower rate than the national average. Implementing the program at your health system or hospital provides a great incentive to engage employees and contributes to the resilience of their communities.

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Data 101 series: Energy benchmarking – how to conduct an energy baseline

• Energy
• Webinar

Don’t know your hospital’s energy utilization index or Energy Star score? No problem. The Healthier Hospitals Leaner Energy Challenge, a program within Practice Greenhealth, has all the tools and tips to get a hospital started. Level 1 encourages facilities to establish a baseline, empowering users to understand where their hospital is performing in national benchmarks.

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Webinar: Detailed assessments of consumable/reusable goods using the Greenhealth cost of ownership calculator

• Cost of Ownership
• Webinar
• Sustainable procurement
• Toolkit

(Greenhealth cost of ownership toolkit) This webinar reviews and demos a detailed cost of ownership calculation on consumable/reusable goods. The speakers describe the data needed for a detailed assessment and the special considerations for consumable/reusable goods. Users view a demo, walking through a typical product scenario to fully understand how to use the calculator to compare…

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