Tools and resources

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center: Local food procurement and provision

• Food
• Food and Beverage Purchasing
• Food Case Study
• Case Study
• Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center’s Food and Nutrition Services (FNS) has been working to change its food offerings to more nutritious and locally sourced and sustainable meals since 2009. The FNS department has expanded its network of New England vendors to provide greens, baked goods, eggs, meat, and dairy to customers.

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Providence St. Peter Hospital: Water reduction

• Water Case Study
• Water
• Case Study
• Providence St. Peter Hospital
• Toolkit

(Less water toolkit) Over the last 14 years, Providence St. Peter Hospital, located in Olympia, Wash., has reduced water consumption by 58 percent and saved over $2.5 million. Learn about the projects that achieved these results.

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Energy Efficiency Financing for Hospitals

• Energy
• Leaner Energy
• Guide

Most hospitals recognize that there are substantial opportunities to reduce energy use in their facilities that are cost-effective on a life-cycle basis. The challenge is that hospital budgets are generally tight and therefore funding the up-front capital to make energy-efficiency investments can be difficult. Fortunately, there are a variety of financing arrangements that hospitals can consider…

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Engaged leadership and the value of sustainable health care

• Benchmark Report
• Engaged Leadership
• Report
• Toolkit

In a shifting health care landscape, sustainability programs are a timely investment that can generate significant cost-savings while offering a range of co-benefits. Across the country, hospitals are taking leadership roles in their communities in advocating for more environmentally responsible operations, cleaner energy, healthier and more sustainable food systems, and a smarter supply chain…

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Greenhealth Magazine: H20 and the OR

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HealthPartners EV Philosophy

• Exemplary Document
• HealthPartners
• Transportation
• Electric Vehicles
• Policy

HealthPartners is committed to supporting sustainable transportation, including accommodating electric vehicles on our campuses. As an enterprise, we intend to offer EV charging at facilities where this is reasonably possible and where the need has been identified.

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HealthPartners Supply Chain Services Policies 2016

• HealthPartners
• Exemplary Document
• Policy
• Supply Chain
• Transportation
• Fleet Vehicles

HealthPartner's policy on vehicle fleet management. This guidance includes steps to ensure a consistent purchasing process that takes advantage of volume discounts, best pricing, and promotes standardization as well as communication about options for maintenance and repairs to fleet vehicles and the re-use and proper disposal of vehicles.

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HealthPartners Sustainability Benefits of Telemedicine

• Exemplary Document
• HealthPartners
• Presentation

A slide from a HealthPartners presentation on the sustainability benefits of telemedicine. The slide contains data on estimated mileage and emissions saved.

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HealthPartners five-year sustainability plan

• Examplary Document
• HealthPartners

This exemplary document from HealthPartners demonstrates a timeline and goals for its five-year sustainability plan. 

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Healthy beverage baseline audit tool

• Guide
• Food and Beverage Purchasing
• Tap water access

The critical first step in creating a Healthy Beverage Program in hospitals is performing an audit of beverage policies, practices, access points, and product selection currently in place. This will give the food service department the framework they need to create a clear and comprehensive plan for developing and implementing a Healthy Beverage Program. In the following pages you will find a…

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