Tools and resources

Model integrated pest management landscape policy

• Chemicals
• Tool
• Integrated pest management
• Exemplary Document

Your facility uses integrated pest management to alleviate pest problems with the least possible hazard to people, property and the environment. IPM emphasizes nonchemical strategies such as sanitation and exclusion to achieve long-term solutions. This model integrated pest management landscape and turf policy from the Beyond Pesticides and Maryland Pesticide Network may be useful as you…

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Model integrated pest management plan

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• Integrated pest management
• Tool
• Exemplary Document

Your facility uses integrated pest management to alleviate pest problems with the least possible hazard to people, property and the environment. IPM emphasizes nonchemical strategies such as sanitation and exclusion to achieve long-term solutions. This model integrated pest management plan from the Beyond Pesticides and Maryland Pesticide Network may be useful as you facilitate your own program.

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Model integrated pest management policy

• Chemicals
• Integrated pest management
• Tool
• Exemplary Document

Your facility uses integrated pest management to alleviate pest problems with the least possible hazard to people, property and the environment. IPM emphasizes nonchemical strategies such as sanitation and exclusion to achieve long-term solutions. This model integrated pest management policy from the Beyond Pesticides and Maryland Pesticide Network may be useful as you facilitate your own program…

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Taking toxics out of Maryland’s health care sector

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• Integrated pest management
• Report

Taking Toxics Out of Maryland’s Health Care Sector reports on a shift in Maryland’s health care sector away from the use of toxic pesticides in the management of health care facilities. Major health care institutions in the state are now embracing pest management strategies for their facilities that give priority to non-chemical pest control methods and only use defined least-toxic chemical…

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Integrated pest management webinar: Partnerships and tools to implement a program

• Chemicals
• Webinar
• Integrated pest management

Integrated pest management (IPM) programs have the benefit of protecting staff, patients, and visitors from exposure to pesticides that are linked to adverse health impacts, including respiratory impacts, cancers, neurological disorders, and reproductive problems. A defined IPM program is a pest management strategy focusing on long-term, non-chemical strategies for prevention and suppression of…

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List of furniture and materials that meet the Healthy Interiors goal

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• Healthy interiors
• Product list

Please note - As of August 1, 2022, these listings will be removed, and this category will be included under Greenhealth Approved. Practice Greenhealth makes it easier for hospitals to select furniture and materials that meet the Healthy Interiors goal. We worked with furniture and textile manufacturers to identify products that meet the goal. 

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Healthy Interiors guidance for manufacturers

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• Healthy interiors
• Guide

This document provides guidance for manufacturers wishing to meet Health Care Without Harm’s Healthy Interiors criteria and institutions working to achieve Practice Greenhealth’s Healthy Interiors goal.

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Guidance to achieve green cleaning goal

• Guide
• Chemicals
• Green Cleaning

This document provides guidance for hospitals working to meet the requirements of the green cleaning goal of the safer chemicals challenge. We encourage hospitals to go beyond the green cleaning goal where possible. This document includes information to assess progress against the green cleaning goal.

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Healthy Interiors Goal

• Guide
• Chemicals
• Healthy interiors

Practice Greenhealth’s Healthy Interiors goal promotes public and environmental health and helps accelerate the transformation of the furnishings market to safer products.   What is Practice Greenhealth’s Healthy Interiors goal? Ensure that 30% of the annual volume of furnishings and furniture purchases (based on cost) eliminate the use of formaldehyde, perfluorinated compounds,…

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Guidance for PVC and DEHP elimination in medical products

• Chemicals
• Guide
• Safer medical products and devices

This document provides guidance for hospitals working to meet the polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and the plasticizer di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) elimination goal of the safer chemicals challenge.

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