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Tools and resources

Community benefit: impact of climate change and the environment, multi-purpose strategies and co-benefits (CHA)

  • Climate and Health
  • Leadership
  • Toolkit
(Delivering community benefit: Climate and health toolkit) (Catholic Health Association) Can community benefit programs that improve health also have a positive impact on climate change and the environment? The answer can be yes.

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Climate change in the United States: Benefits of global action (EPA)

  • Climate and Health
  • Leadership
  • Toolkit
(Delivering community benefit: Climate and health toolkit) (EPA) The Climate Change Impacts and Risk Analysis (CIRA) project quantifies the physical effects and economic damages under multiple climate change scenarios. 

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Community health needs assessments issue briefs (ASTHO)

  • Climate and Health
  • Leadership
  • Toolkit
(Delivering community benefit: Climate and health toolkit) (ASTHO) Community health needs assessments (CHNA) and implementation strategies are newly required of tax-exempt hospitals as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. These assessments and strategies create an important opportunity to improve the health of communities. They ensure that hospitals have the information…

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Assessing and addressing community health needs and other resources (CHA)

  • Climate and Health
  • Leadership
  • Toolkit
(Delivering community benefit: Climate and health toolkit) (Catholic Health Association) Community benefits are programs and services designed to improve health in communities and increase access to health care. They are integral to the mission of Catholic and other not-for-profit health care organizations, and are the basis of tax exemption. For nearly 20 years, CHA has been a leader in the…

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Summary of community health needs assessments reports (Hilltop Institute)

  • Climate and Health
  • Leadership
  • Toolkit
(Delivering community benefit: Climate and health toolkit) (Hilltop Institute) The Hilltop Institute’s Community Benefit State Law Profiles (Profiles) present a comprehensive analysis of each state’s community benefit landscape as defined by its laws, regulations, tax exemptions, and, in some cases, policies and activities of state executive agencies. The Profiles organize these state-level legal…

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Employee home solar get started guide

  • Engaged Leadership
  • Employees
  • Get Started Guide
  • Guide
  • Toolkit
Providing incentives and programming to employees to improve the health of their homes, families, and friends is a way to extend the “culture of caring” beyond the walls of the organization. One program that can help reduce air pollution and climate impacts in your community is to provide employees with discounts on residential solar systems. Download the Practice Greenhealth Employee Home Solar…

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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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Circles of Excellence Honorees

  • Awards
The Circle of Excellence Awards celebrate hospitals who have not only earned an award for all-around sustainability achievement, but who have also been identified as the top scoring programs for each category of sustainability. LEADERSHIP CIRCLE It all starts with leadership. The Leadership Circle represents the high-performing hospitals that have a strong infrastructure supporting a long term…

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Climate indicators summary example

  • Climate and Health
  • Community Benefit
  • Toolkit
(Delivering community benefit: Climate and health toolkit) This climate health summary tool is an Excel workbook designed to help health planning staff and community members develop quantitative indicators of the likely health impacts of climate change in their local area. These impacts are driven by rising temperatures, air pollution changes, more severe weather, and increased ticks and vectors…

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Climate indicators summary worksheet

  • Climate and Health
  • Community Benefit
  • Toolkit
(Delivering community benefit: Climate and health toolkit) This climate health summary tool is an Excel workbook designed to help health planning staff and community members develop quantitative indicators of the likely health impacts of climate change in their local area. These impacts are driven by rising temperatures, air pollution changes, more severe weather, and increased ticks and vectors…

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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.