Tools and resources

How-to guide for Healthy Flooring

• Chemicals
• Healthy interiors
• Healthy flooring
• Guide

The Healthy Flooring how-to guide assists hospitals in achieving our healthy flooring goal, which targets the elimination of chemicals and materials in flooring that can contribute to a wide range of negative health effects, including asthma, cancer, and developmental impacts.

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Healthy flooring guidance for manufacturers

• Chemicals
• Guide
• Healthy interiors
• Healthy flooring

This document provides guidance for manufacturers wishing to meet Health Care Without Harm’s Healthy Flooring criteria. The criteria apply to all flooring except carpet, fluid applied floors, and concrete. The criteria do not apply to floor leveling compounds or underlayment.

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Sample awards application: Food

• Food
• Awards

Health care organizations nationwide are offering healthier menus, working with farmers to purchase locally and sustainably grown products, reducing the amount of meat they purchase and serve, and going beyond their walls to help meet the food needs of their community, all in an effort to support the health of their patients, staff, surrounding community and the environment. Practice Greenhealth…

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Climate co-benefits of healthy food access interventions

• Community Benefit and Wellness
• Food
• Tool

(Health Care Without Harm) This issue brief provides an introduction to bringing climate risks into the community health needs assessment process and identifying valuable climate co-benefits of new or existing food-related initiatives in the community benefit implementation strategy.  By aligning environmental stewardship activities at the hospital with community health activities, there is a…

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Tax reporting for healthy food access programs

• Community Benefit and Wellness
• Food
• Tool

(Health Care Without Harm) This guidance brief provides an overview of the reporting categories on IRS Form 990 Schedule H, as well as some guidelines and “rules of thumb” for how to report community benefit support for a set of healthy food access initiatives discussed throughout this playbook.  These programs can be an effective component of community benefit implementation strategies to…

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Evaluating healthy food access interventions

• Community Benefit and Wellness
• Food
• Tool

(Health Care Without Harm) This brief contains recommendations to assist community benefit staff and community partners in conducting program evaluation for healthy food access programs. It contains guidance for evaluation planning and links out to validated, frequently used surveys and data collection tools to bolster support for programs nationally and develop a common set of indicators,…

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Data sources to assess food access, environments, and behaviors

• Community Benefit and Wellness
• Food
• Tool

(Health Care Without Harm) This brief provides an overview of secondary data sources to assess food access, food environments, and diet-related health needs commonly used in community health needs assessments (CHNAs), along with some less frequently utilized sources that may complement widely used measures.  The brief also discusses recommendations for collecting primary data on food-related…

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Engaging the community to understand food needs

• Community Benefit and Wellness
• Food

(Health Care Without Harm) Understanding the built, social, and economic environments in which community members make food decisions as well as the availability of resources to meet daily food needs is critical to effectively address rising rates of diet-related health conditions. Efforts to improve healthy food access and promote healthier community food environments can have a significant…

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Green certifications and label claims

• Sustainable procurement

This is a comprehensive and vetted list of third-party certifications and label claims that Practice Greenhealth has determined to be highly meaningful.

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Why smarter purchasing?

• Sustainable procurement

The health care industry wields significant purchasing power, representing 17 percent of the U.S. marketplace. However, some of the products marketed to the industry generate unnecessary waste, contain hazardous materials and use excessive energy. By choosing environmentally preferred medical products and equipment for use in hospital facilities, the health care sector can actually generate…

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