Tools and resources

Environmental Excellence Awards sample news items

• Awards

Here are two sample news stories as well as a brief description for each of Practice Greenhealth’s Environmental Excellence Awards. Feel free to use some or all of this content as you promote your win internally and externally. You can find additional resources, including award logos, on our website. If you have questions, please reach out to press@practicegreenhealth.org. Sample news story 1…

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Environmental Excellence Awards staff email template

• Awards

To save you time, we drafted this customizable email to recognize your team: Hello, [insert team member name here]. Thank you for taking the time to gather data and contribute to our Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellence Award application. Our facility won [insert award(s) names here] this year, and we couldn’t have done it without you. We are grateful for all you do to help us on our…

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Copia COVID-19 food insecurity response flyer

The coronavirus pandemic is having a devastating impact on food security. Practice Greenhealth and Health Care Without Harm are working with Copia to coordinate the donation of food from hospitals to communities facing increased food insecurity from COVID-19. This flyer explains how the program works. 

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How-to guide for Healthy Carpet

• Chemicals
• Guide
• Healthy interiors
• Healthy Carpet

The Healthy Carpet how-to guide assists hospitals in achieving the Healthy Carpet goal, which targets the elimination of chemicals and materials in carpet that can contribute to a wide range of negative health effects, including asthma, cancer, and developmental impacts, as well as environmental impacts.

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Healthy Carpet guidance

• Chemicals
• Guide
• Healthy interiors
• Healthy Carpet

This document provides guidance for manufacturers wishing to meet Health Care Without Harm’s Healthy Carpet criteria. The criteria apply to carpet tile, broadloom carpet, and carpet padding. The criteria do not apply to area rugs and outdoor carpet and rugs.

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2018 sustainability data

Practice Greenhealth’s data, collected from hospitals across the country, will assist hospitals in identifying key sustainability program opportunities by benchmarking their own program’s performance. The data is divided into 10 components of health care environmental stewardship programs: leadership, waste, chemicals, greening the operating room, food, environmentally preferable purchasing,…

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2019 sustainability data

• Benchmark Report

Practice Greenhealth collected and compiled extensive sustainability data from 327 hospitals to provide timely information to hospitals and health systems working to build environmental stewardship into their mission. The environmental performance data coming out of health care continues to substantiate the claim that sustainability initiatives can add value, reduce negative health and…

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High success through low RMW rates

• Regulated medical waste
• Fluid management systems
• Guide
• Greening the Operating Room

Regulated medical waste (RMW) is one area where continuous education, communication, assessment, and tracking are critical to maintaining low generation rates. Due to a surgical department’s very nature, it’s unlikely that RMW will ever be eliminated, but since as much as 30% of a facility’s RMW is from the operating room, it’s a great place to focus efforts. Practice Greenhealth and Healthier…

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Circles of Excellence overview

• Awards

The Circles of Excellence recognize up to 10 of the highest performing hospitals for each individual category of environmental performance including Leadership, Waste, Chemicals, Greening the OR, Food, Environmentally Preferable Purchasing, Energy, Water, Climate, Green Building. Winners are selected based on the highest scores within that category while also meeting a set of threshold criteria.…

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Awards frequently asked questions

• Awards

This resource addresses frequently asked questions about starting and completing an award application.

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