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Suggested RFP/RFI Questions for Asset Management Suppliers

  • EPP
  • EPP Resource
  • Guide
  • Waste
  • Recycling
  • Supply Chain
Practice Greenhealth provides a list of potential questions for asset management services that manage unwanted equipment. Electronic equipment contains numerous hazardous chemicals that require handling in a responsible manner to avoid release into the environment and that cause human health issues. The questions in this guide address options for handling unwanted equipment in an environmentally…

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Seattle Children's Goal Progress 2016

  • Employee engagement
  • Engaged Leadership
  • Exemplary Document
  • Waste
  • Seattle Children's Hospital
  • Report
Seattle Children's Hospital posts sustainability progress and goals on its employee web pages. Open the resource to view examples from the hospital's recycle refresh initiative and paper reduction initiative.

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Gundersen Health System: Tech-based measuring for food waste prevention

  • Food
  • Food Case Study
  • Case Study
  • Gundersen
  • Waste
  • Food
  • food waste
  • Toolkit
 A Practice Greenhealth Case Study “If you can do something to reduce the waste, you’re doing the right thing for the environment, you’re saving money, and you’re doing something that’s socially responsible. It’s a win-win-win all the way around.”  – Tom Thompson. Gundersen Health Systems' baseline revealed they were throwing out an average of half a ton of food every week — approximately 24…

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Gunderson food waste case study

HealthPartners: Composting and animal feeding to reduce food waste

  • Food
  • Case Study
  • HealthPartners
  • food waste
  • Waste
  • Toolkit
A Practice Greenhealth Case Study “Organics recycling and food waste diversion remain very important to us, and we are slowly but surely working to expand both the number of facilities with organics recycling and the types of materials that can be recycled.” – Allison Egan, HealthPartners Sustainability Consultant HealthPartners wanted to reduce sending organic waste to the landfill. They…

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HealthPartners food waste case study

Guidance for purchasing can liners

  • Waste
  • Sustainable procurement
Guidance on the applicable environmental considerations for can liners

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Practice Greenhealth is the health care sector’s go-to source for information, tools, data, resources, and expert technical support on sustainability initiatives that help hospitals and health systems meet their health, financial, and community goals.

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Who We Are

Practice Greenhealth is the leading sustainable health care organization, delivering environmental solutions to more than 1,500 hospitals and health systems in the United States and Canada. Partnership opportunities include hospitals, health systems, community health organizations, NGOs, nonprofits, government, academic institutions, and the health care value chain.