Tools and resources

Webinar: DEHP, Interiors and Green Cleaning

• Webinar
• Green Cleaning
• Healthy interiors
• Medical products

Practice Greenhealth tracks targeted activities around safer chemicals in three areas – Green Cleaning, PVC/DEHP reduction and Healthy Interiors. This webinar reviews these three areas, explaining how to access the data and where to find Practice Greenhealth resources to support success in tracking movement towards healthier materials.

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Leaner Energy: Background

• Climate and Health
• Leaner Energy

Background Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration illustrates that buildings are responsible for almost half of the energy consumed and 38 percent of all GHG emissions in the United States. According to the EPA, inpatient health care ranks as the second largest commercial energy user after the food service industry. The US Department of Energy notes that hospital energy costs rose…

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Safe haven in the storm: Protecting lives and margins with climate-smart health care

• Climate and Health
• Resilience
• Report

"Safe haven in the storm: Protecting lives and margins with climate-smart health care" analyzes billions of dollars in losses and resilience-related savings to demonstrate how preparing for extreme weather can make or break a health system.  "Safe haven in the storm" examines extreme weather's bottom line damages to hospitals, such as suspension or closure of emergency departments and other…

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Meat and poultry product list

• Food
• Food and Beverage Purchasing
• Purchasing
• Sustainable procurement
• Sustainable food service operations

(Health Care Without Harm) We know it can be difficult to find products that meet your sustainability goals. We’re here to help!  All of the meat and poultry in this database are raised without routine, non-therapeutic antibiotics. They meet the criteria used by Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth. Chicken, turkey, beef, pork, lamb – we’ve got it all! Just click on the spreadsheet…

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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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Earth Day 2017 member events

• Earth Day

HealthPartners HealthPartners celebrated Earth Day in lots of different ways in 2017 – from electronics recycling to shred events to bee-friendly plants, there was something for everyone to participate in! Events took place throughout the whole week leading up to Earth Day and all across the Twin Cities Metro area and into Western Wisconsin. In partnership with a local non-profit organization,…

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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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Less Meat, Better Meat Tracking Tool

• Food
• Less Meat
• Food Tool

This tool is designed to support hospitals in tracking overall reduction in meat purchasing and increases in purchases of meat and poultry raised without routine, non-therapeutic antibiotics, and aligns with the data tracking needs at Practice Greenhealth.

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Local and sustainable food tracking tool

• Food
• Local Food
• Food Tool

This tool is designed to support hospitals in tracking sustainable food purchasing and local food purchasing and aligns with the data tracking needs at Practice Greenhealth.  

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