Tools and resources

Waste Education University of Vermont Medical Center

• Waste
• Exemplary Document
• UVM Medical Center
• Presentation
• Education
• Recycling

Open this resource to view an employee education presentation from the University of Vermont Medical Center on recycling.

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Waste Education Legacy Good Samaritan

• Waste
• Exemplary Document
• Legacy Health
• Education
• Presentation
• Waste

Health care is a huge generator of waste materials. While some wastes are difficult to avoid, many waste types can be reduced, and others can be recovered and recycled. This employee education presentation focuses on the best ways to reduce, reuse, recycle, and properly dispose of waste in Legacy Health facilities.

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Waste Category RFP Questions - Part 6

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Wall Protection – Environmental Considerations for the RFP/RFI Process

• EPP
• Purchasing
• Guide
• Green Building

Wall protection includes panels, corner guards, crash rails, and other materials used to protect walls and doors from damage. The questions in this guide cover key environmental considerations for products in this category. This category would also provide opportunities for health care facilities to earn USGBC’s LEED credits for sustainably built environments.

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Virginia Mason: Sustainable anesthesia case cart

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

(Anesthetic gas toolkit) 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…

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Value of sustainability initiatives in surgical suites

• Benchmark Report
• Greening the Operating Room

Practice Greenhealth’s report demonstrates how your hospital can save money – up to $56,000 per operating room annually – while improving environmental and community health. Leading hospitals are targeting the surgical suite to reduce waste, energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and supply costs. Those participating in Practice Greenhealth’s Environmental Excellence Awards reported combined…

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Sample employee commute survey

• Transportation
• Employees
• Toolkit

(Transportation toolkit) Employee commute surveys and data collection may also be administered by state, regional, and municipal transit authorities, non-profit organizations, and business partners. These are acceptable sources for reporting and tracking employee single-occupancy vehicles and vehicle-miles-traveled rates.

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Sample Award Scoring Framework

• Awards
• Guide

Practice Greenhealth uses a number of criteria to evaluate Environmental Excellence Award applications in its efforts to recognize hospitals and health systems for their outstanding achievements. To assist health care facility members in gaining an understanding of how applications are evaluated, Practice Greenhealth has created the following overview on our scoring framework.

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Legacy Good Samaritan Green Building LEED Document (2016)

• Green Building
• Exemplary Document
• Legacy Health
• Guide

Open this resource to view a sustainable construction design guide from Legacy Health.

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Extended producer responsibility factsheet

• EPP
• EPP Resource
• Guide
• Purchasing
• Waste
• Recycling

One easy step government entities, businesses and institutions (such as hospitals and universities) can take to implement extended producer responsibility (EPR) is to buy from manufacturers that agree to collect and recycle their products when they reach the end of their useful life. This fact sheet explains how EPR – also called product stewardship – has been, and can be, added to policies and…

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