Tools and resources

Hospital highlight: Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center

• Anesthetic Gas
• Greenhouse Gas
• Greening the Operating Room
• Case Study
• Clinician engagement

(Anesthetic gas toolkit) Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center used education to reduce GHG emissions from anesthesia, saving more than $22k for the organization.

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Hospital highlight: UW Health

• Case Study
• Anesthetic Gas
• Greening the Operating Room
• Clinician engagement
• Greenhouse Gas

(Anesthetic gas toolkit) Check out the engagement strategy UW Health developed to reduce GHG emissions from anesthesia and save more than $240k annually. 

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Hospital highlight: William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital

• Anesthetic Gas
• Greening the Operating Room
• Clinician engagement
• Case Study
• Greenhouse Gas

(Anesthetic gas toolkit) Check out this hospital highlight: William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital reduced GHG emissions from anesthetic gases by 65 percent and saved $11,000. 

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Anesthetic gas data collection and tracking tool

• Anesthetic Gas
• Greening the Operating Room
• Greenhouse Gas
• Clinician engagement
• Toolkit
• Tool

(Anesthetic gas toolkit) Establishing a baseline and tracking progress toward waste reduction goals helps make the case to senior leadership for the program’s continuation. Use this tool to enter anesthetic gas data and track progress over time. This interactive spreadsheet will calculate the MTCO2e from purchasing data, track percent change, and visually highlight the breakdown 

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Anesthetic gas data collection worksheet

• Anesthetic Gas
• Greenhouse Gas
• Greening the Operating Room
• Clinician engagement
• Toolkit

(Anesthetic gas toolkit) Establishing a baseline and tracking use of anesthetic gases is central to the anesthetic gas goal. Working with your organization’s anesthesia champion, supply chain, pharmacy, clinical engineering staff, and/or medical gas vendor, use the data collection worksheet to gather annual purchasing data. 

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Anesthetic gas data addendum

• Anesthetic Gas
• Greening the Operating Room
• Greenhouse Gas
• Toolkit
• Clinician engagement

(Anesthetic gas toolkit) Use this addendum for a step-by-step example to calculate by hand the MTCO2e from purchasing data. The addendum also reviews terms used when gathering this data.

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Data 101 webinar series: How to conduct a material and waste baseline

• Waste
• Webinar
• Solid waste

How to conduct a material and waste baseline - Join this webinar for an overview of the categories that Practice Greenhealth has established in order for hospitals to use a standardized practice for measuring materials and waste. Review a step-by-step approach to understanding and tracking each waste stream, as required by Practice Greenhealth. 

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Data 101 webinar series

• Webinar
• Data
• Awards
• Greenhealth Academy

The Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellence Awards is more than an awards program – it’s an opportunity to capture data on environmental quality improvement progress within hospitals and health systems.  Data is power. It has the power to demonstrate a return on investment. It has the power to implement positive change. When submitted through Practice Greenhealth’s Environmental Excellence…

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Greenhouse gas inventory tool

• Climate and Health
• Mitigation
• Greenhouse Gas
• Toolkit

(Greenhouse gas reduction toolkit) There are three primary steps in completing a GHG inventory: Define: The first step in completing a GHG inventory is to determine the boundaries and emissions sources included within those boundaries. After you have defined your organizational and operational boundaries and identified a baseline year, you can begin to collect data on the relevant emissions.…

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Healthy Interiors Goal

• Guide
• Chemicals
• Healthy interiors

Practice Greenhealth’s Healthy Interiors goal promotes public and environmental health and helps accelerate the transformation of the furnishings market to safer products.   What is Practice Greenhealth’s Healthy Interiors goal? Ensure that 30% of the annual volume of furnishings and furniture purchases (based on cost) eliminate the use of formaldehyde, perfluorinated compounds,…

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