Tools and resources

Employee engagement: Human resources checklist

• Employee engagement
• Toolkit
• Tool

(Employee engagement toolkit) Maximizing the value of healthier environments supports staff recruitment, retention, satisfaction, safety, and health. Healthier environments are key to creating a culture and workplace that nurtures employees, providing a place they want to stay and grow. The number one concern of human resources professionals is keeping the workforce engaged. Environmental…

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Healthy hospitals: Controlling pests without harmful pesticides

• Chemicals
• Integrated pest management
• Report

Although many people have come to assume that applying pesticides is the only way to control pests and ensure a clean, healthy health care facility, this report shows that pests can be successfully managed without toxic pesticides and without having an adverse effect on the quality of patient care. Health care facilities have another opportunity to “first, do no harm” by changing the way they…

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Leadership spotlight: Raymond J. Baxter

• Leadership
• Engaged Leadership
• Kaiser Permanente

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 Hippocratic Oath to "do no harm" …

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Employee engagement poster: Ridgeview Medical Center, sample 2

• Employee engagement
• Exemplary Document
• Poster
• Ridgeview Medical Center

  This sample employee engagement poster features a staff member of Ridgeview Medical Center explaining "why a healthy environment is important to me."

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Employee engagement poster: Ridgeview Medical Center, sample 1

• Employee engagement
• Poster
• Exemplary Document
• Ridgeview Medical Center

This sample employee engagement poster features a staff member of Ridgeview Medical Center explaining "why a healthy environment is important to me."

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Boston Medical Center: Sample reprocessing vendor policy

• Greening the Operating Room
• Exemplary Document
• Boston Medical Center
• Policy

This resource provides a policy template for establishing and approving a reprocessing and remanufacturing program of single-use or disposable medical devices in accordance with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA),  the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), and other federal, state and local agencies. It outlines definitions, requirements, and policy…

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Boston Medical Center: Mercury Inventory (2016)

• Chemicals
• Mercury
• Exemplary Document
• Boston Medical Center
• Policy

View this resource to read a sample policy from Boston Medical on the elimination of mercury in the workplace, including potential sources and safe disposal.

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Boston Medical Center Green Building LEED Documents (2016)

• Green Building
• Exemplary Document
• Boston Medical Center
• Checklist
• Guide

Boston Medical Center requires that new major additions or buildings incorporate the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-Health Care ("LEED-HC") and Green Guide for Health Care ("GGHC") green building standards. Boston Medical Center has developed LEED Checklists that  help achieve this requirement to meet the silver rating of the LEED -HC and GGHC.

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Beaumont Health System Green Officer Certification program

• Engaged Leadership
• Case Study
• Employee engagement
• Beaumont Health System
• Toolkit

(Employee engagement toolkit) The Beaumont Health System Green Officers program is a voluntary program where interested staffers help communicate and educate others about sustainability programming at Beaumont. Any staff member can volunteer to be a Green Officer. The Green Officers act as role models to other staff through energy, water, and waste conservation practices, and they are trained to…

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Anesthesia: Virginia Mason 2016

• Greening the Operating Room
• Exemplary Document
• Virginia Mason
• Report

In 2015, Virginia Mason continued to improve on their anesthesia carts to enable anesthesiologists to have an environmentally responsible practice. The carts were optimized so that each one has a recycling, compressed aerosols, and a comingled sharps container. Once the standard work was agreed to, all of the carts were standardized to the design, so that it is intuitive and easy to use.  This…

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