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Tools and resources

Hackensack University Medical Center Sustainability Certification program

  • Employees Case Study
  • Employee engagement
  • Hackensack University Medical Center
  • Case Study
  • Engaged Leadership
  • Toolkit
(Employee engagement toolkit) Hackensack University Medical Center's Sustainability Certification program includes a one-hour lecture and thirty minutes for discussion. The educational content is in alignment with the Practice Greenhealth's six-category framework: Engaged leadership, leaner energy, healthier food, less Waste, safer chemicals, and smarter purchasing. The lecture connects…

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Case study

Leadership spotlight: Lloyd Dean

  • Dignity Health
  • Engaged Leadership
  • Leadership
Leaders learn best from their peers. The Leadership spotlight profiles highlight engaged leaders and engage other hospitals and health systems. These leaders recognize the opportunity for personal and organizational transformation and are ready to walk, talk and envision a healthier future – a future where planetary and human health are interconnected – where the…

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Leadership spotlight: Leslie Davis

  • Engaged Leadership
  • Leadership
Leaders learn best from their peers. The Leadership spotlight profiles highlight engaged leaders and engage other hospitals and health systems. These leaders recognize the opportunity for personal and organizational transformation and are ready to walk, talk and envision a healthier future – a future where planetary and human health are interconnected – where the…

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Leadership spotlight: Jeffrey Thompson

  • Engaged Leadership
  • Leadership
  • Gundersen
Leaders learn best from their peers. The Leadership spotlight profiles highlight engaged leaders and engage other hospitals and health systems. These leaders recognize the opportunity for personal and organizational transformation and are ready to walk, talk and envision a healthier future – a future where planetary and human health are interconnected – where the…

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Landscaping integrated pest management template contract

  • Integrated pest management
  • Guide
  • Buildings
  • Green Building
  • Sustainable procurement
  • Chemicals
Generic template for contracting integrated pest management for landscaping services at a health care facility. 

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Environmental considerations for lab equipment using reagents

  • EPP
  • EPP Resource
  • Sustainable procurement
  • Greening the Operating Room
  • Guide
Many autoanalyzers and other laboratory equipment consume reagents. In some cases, the equipment warranty is voided if non-approved reagents are used, or the equipment is provided on loan for free as long as the facility purchases the appropriate reagents. Thus, it is important, when selecting laboratory equipment, to ask for information about the environmental attributes of the reagents that…

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Inova Health System Green Ambassador program

  • Employees Case Study
  • Case Study
  • Inova Health
  • Toolkit
(Employee engagement toolkit) The Green Ambassador program trains and certifies Inova employees in sustainability, specifically initiatives and activities which reduce environmental impact and promote health and well-being for patients, employees and the larger community. The goal of the program is to develop a culture of sustainability throughout the organization and incorporate…

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Case study

Inova Fairfax Hospital: Regulated medical waste reduction

  • Case Study
  • Inova Health
  • Less Waste
  • Regulated medical waste
  • Less Waste Case Study
  • Toolkit
(Less waste toolkit) Learn how Inova Fairfax Hospital, a 900-bed trauma 1 community hospital in Falls Church, Va., reduced 14 percent of red bag waste and saved over $200,000 in waste removal fees.   

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Implementation Module: Rigid Sterilization Containers in the OR

  • Greening the Operating Room
  • Rigid Sterilization Containers
  • Guide
  • Reuse, donate, or sell
The operating room generates a large volume of disposable plastics, ranging from single-use medical devices to packaging to sterile wrap to plastic pour bottles for irrigation. The vast majority of these items go out the door as waste—either with regulated medical waste (where comprehensive segregation efforts have not yet been undertaken) or as solid waste or recycling. More efficient than…

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Implementation module: Regulated medical waste segregation and minimization in the OR

  • Greening the Operating Room
  • Regulated medical waste
  • Guide
  • Waste Segregation
The operating room (OR) is often the largest generator of waste within a hospital setting, and has been estimated to produce between 20-33% of the total waste generated in the hospital despite its diminutive spatial footprint. Of the waste generated by the OR, the largest percentage is often regulated medical waste (RMW), which can costs between 5 and 10 times more than solid …

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Practice Greenhealth is the leading sustainable health care organization, delivering environmental solutions to more than 1,500 hospitals and health systems in the United States and Canada. Partnership opportunities include hospitals, health systems, community health organizations, NGOs, nonprofits, government, academic institutions, and the health care value chain.