Tools and resources

Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital: Strategic sustainability plan

• Exemplary Document
• Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital
• Community Benefit and Wellness
• Community Benefit
• Engaged Leadership

Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital's 2016 strategic plan to improve individual experience of care (quality, safety, access, and service), improve the health of populations and reduce per capita cost of care in populations.

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Sustainability Reports Dashboard Advocate 2016

• Engaged Leadership
• Exemplary Document
• Advocate Health Care
• Report

Open this resource to view a sustainability dashboard report from Advocate Health Care, including goals and actual results achieved for the quarter.

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Sustainability Reports Dashboard Health Partners 2016

• Engaged Leadership
• Exemplary Document
• HealthPartners
• Report

Open this resource to view a sustainability scorecard report from Health Partners.

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St. Elizabeth Hospital: Free cooling

• Case Study
• Water
• St. Elizabeth Hospital
• Toolkit

(Less water toolkit) On January 2015, the Fremont Tower, a 90-bed inpatient unit was open to patients in addition to a more efficient central utility plant. Between seven options for plant upgrades, a 90-ton heat recovery chiller (HRC) and cooling tower cooling strategy with a shoulder boiler were selected to enable free cooling and improve load performance during low load hours.

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Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital Earth Day presentation

• Earth Day
• Exemplary Document
• Advocate Health Care
• Presentation

This presentation by Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital highlighted the hospital's successful energy, water, and climate initiatives in honor of Earth Day.  

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Providence St. Patrick Hospital: Eliminating hand soaps containing triclosan

• Chemicals
• Hand Hygiene
• Case Study
• Safer Chemicals Case Study
• Providence St. Patrick
• Safer hand hygiene
• Toolkit

(Safer hand hygiene toolkit) In 2011, Providence St. Patrick Hospital set out to review the use of hand soaps containing triclosan due to emerging health and environmental concerns. New data and recommendations from authoritative bodies helped convince the Infection Prevention team that a switch was warranted. In 2012, Providence St. Patrick Hospital was able to eliminate triclosan from hand…

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Transportation UCSF 2016

• Transportation
• Exemplary Document
• UCSF
• Employee Benefit

University of California San Francisco employee benefits include discounts on solar for the home and on the purchase of a Nissan LEAF.  

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TransportationUVM Fanny Valley 2016

• Transportation
• Exemplary Document
• University of Vermont

Governor Peter Shumlin joined Drive Electric Vermont in celebrating the launch of Drive the Dream Vermont, a campaign to increase the use of electric vehicles in the state. As part of the campaign, a diverse group of leading Vermont employers met with Governor Shumlin to announce their commitments to advance electric vehicles in Vermont. The Drive the Dream Vermont campaign will spur the growth…

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Health Partners energy management plan

• Energy
• Leaner Energy
• Exemplary Document
• HealthPartners
• Policy

HealthPartners has created an energy management plan that provides structure, guidance, and organization on how HealthPartners manages its operations, construction, and renovations with respect to energy efficiency. This plan focuses on integrating efficiency and sustainability strategies to improve performance, lower costs, and conserve natural resources and is intended to support enterprise…

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University of Washington Medical Center: Energy reduction plan

• Energy
• Leaner Energy
• Case Study
• University of Washington
• Energy Case Study

The University of Washington Medical Center provides a case study in utility cost reduction involving assessment of and improvements to its HVAC, water, and waste management systems.

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