Tools and resources

NorthShore University Health System: Community benefit report

  • Food
  • Engaged Leadership
  • Exemplary Document
  • Community Benefit
  • NorthShore University Health System
This exemplary document describes findings of the community health needs assessment, the implementation plan, and how NorthShore University HealthSystem addressed community needs through community benefit programming, projects, and partnerships.  At NorthShore University HealthSystem (NorthShore), we believe in serving and investing in the health and well-being of people who live in our…

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University of Vermont Medical Center: Community benefit report

  • Food
  • Engaged Leadership
  • Exemplary Document
  • Community Benefit
  • UVM Medical Center
  • University of Vermont Medical Center
This exemplary document describes findings of the community health needs assessment, the implementation plan, and how the University of Vermont Medical Center addressed community needs through community benefit programming, projects, and partnerships. 

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Kaiser Permanente 2016

  • Engaged Leadership
  • Exemplary Document
  • Kaiser Permanente
  • Report
Kaiser Permanente's environmental stewardship program is anchored in promoting the health of communities. Healthier communities with healthier people are more resilient to disease. By eliminating or mitigating environmental contributors to disease, we help people lead healthier lives. To encourage healthy environments, we lead or support innovative efforts throughout our organization to decrease…

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Advocate Sustainable work space certification 2016

  • Engaged Leadership
  • Employee engagement
  • Exemplary Document
  • Advocate Health Care
  • Checklist
  • Tool
  • Less Waste
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Less Water
Advocate Health Care provides a checklist for evaluating sustainable work spaces. This evaluation uses random interviews of staff and observation to determine a department's engagement in sustainable practices.

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Advocate 2020 A3 Strategy 2016

  • Green Building
  • Engaged Leadership
  • Exemplary Document
  • Advocate Health Care
  • Report
The Healthier Hospitals Initiative (HHI) is a comprehensive national campaign to implement and improve environmental health and sustainability in the health care sector. To achieve 100% of the HHI goals, Advocate Health Care aims to implement proven environmental practices as standard processes and procedures, which contribute to improved patient outcomes, workplace safety, illness prevention,…

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Advocate's environmentally preferred purchasing policy, 2016

  • EPP
  • Exemplary Document
  • Advocate Health Care
  • Supply Chain
  • Sustainable procurement
View Advocate Health Care system's environmentally preferred purchasing policy, prepared by supply chain management for the entire system in 2016.

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Advocate Health Care: Introduction of antibiotic-free meat

  • Food
  • Antibiotics
  • Exemplary Document
  • Advocate Health Care
  • Food Tool
Advocate Health Care provides a list of frequently asked questions and answers about phasing in antibiotic-free meat to their hospital as part of their environmental stewardship and antibiotic stewardship programs.  

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10 ways to drink water model flyers and poster

  • Food
  • Exemplary Document
  • Amery Hospital
  • Poster
A better option for hydration and quenching thirst than sugar-sweetened beverages is water, and in the United States, tap water has been proven to be just as safe, or safer, than the bottled version.  This poster from Amery Hospital displays 10 ways to make drinking water more flavorful.   

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Advocate Health Care: Food resolution antibiotics

  • Food
  • Antimicrobial
  • EPP
  • Purchasing
  • Advocate Health Care
  • Exemplary Document
While Advocate has a robust antimicrobial stewardship program for prescribing practices, the organization continues to purchase meat, poultry, seafood and dairy products that are produced with large amounts of non-therapeutic antibiotics. Their goal is to adopt a system-wide food procurement policy that includes the preferential purchasing of meat, poultry, seafood, and dairy products produced…

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University of Washington Medical Center: Food resolution antibiotics

  • Food
  • Antibiotics
  • Exemplary Document
  • University of Washington
  • Exemplary Document
Antibiotic resistance directly impacts patient care in the hospital setting as an increasing number of hospital-acquired infections are now caused by highly resistant bacteria. This threat is growing in healthcare due to the widespread use of antibiotics, much of which is given needlessly and non-therapeutically to animals intended for food. University of Washington Medical Center is trying to …

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