Tools and resources

Greening the OR: Savings, trends, opportunities

• Greening the Operating Room
• Webinar

While crucial to patient care, the surgical department for many health care facilities can be a huge source of energy consumption, waste generation, and supply expenses, not to mention greenhouse gas emissions. During this call, we’ll examine the most recent Practice Greenhealth benchmark data and highlight national trends. We’ll share success stories from leading hospitals and lessons to bring…

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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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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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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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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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Cleveland Clinic: Individual behaviors help reduce energy

• Engaged Leadership
• Employees
• Employees Case Study
• Case Study
• Cleveland Clinic
• Employee engagement
• Toolkit

(Employee engagement toolkit) The rate at which Cleveland Clinic uses energy has financial costs, as well as human and environmental health impacts. Reducing the rate of energy used creates a cleaner environment, improves health, and delivers substantial cost savings over the short and long term. In pursuit of care affordability, over $12M of energy waste was identified across the health system.…

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Energy efficiency in the OR: HVAC setback checklist

• Greening the Operating Room
• Tool
• Checklist

Use this worksheet to identify key stakeholders and plan for and implement an HVAC setback program that meets your needs. Suggested key departments are listed with topics that could be used to aid in discussion. Some questions or factors may not be realized unless the conversation is started. There is no one-size-fits-all solution—each facility and team is unique and needs a program that meets…

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Environmental Protection Agents at Ridgeview Medical Center

• Employees Case Study
• Ridgeview Medical Center
• Case Study
• Energy Case Study
• Toolkit

(Employee engagement toolkit) In 2012, Ridgeview started to implement a number of energy efficiency projects. Concurrently, the team started to analyze employee behavior as it relates to energy usage. The mindset is health care is a 24/7 operation, but not every space operates that way. This allowed Ridgeview to create a list of low- and no-cost actions for employees to help with energy…

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Greenhealth cost of ownership calculator user guide

• Sustainable procurement
• Toolkit
• Cost of Ownership
• Guide

(Greenhealth cost of ownership toolkit) The user guide supports effective use of the Greenhealth cost of ownership calculator and provides instructions on each of the steps. The guide also shares frequently asked questions to support ease of use.  The purpose of this calculator is to support hospitals and group purchasing organizations in considering environmental costs in their procurement…

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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 these…

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