Tools and resources

Community benefit climate change scorecard

  • Climate and Health
  • Community Benefit
  • Toolkit

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Environmental considerations fo ceiling tiles

  • EPP
  • EPP Resource
  • Sustainable procurement
  • Buildings
  • Green Building
  • Guide
This guide details the environmental considerations for purchasing ceiling tiles along with the rationale and suggested questions to ask suppliers. 

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Pros and cons for disinfectants and sterilizers

  • EPP
  • Sustainable procurement
  • Green Cleaning
  • Sterilants and Disinfectants
  • Sterilization and Disinfection
  • Guide
This guide explores the pros and cons including human health effects, environmental considerations, and EPA rules for various disinfectants and sterilizers. 

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Breathe easy: Workplace electric vehicle charging

  • Transportation
  • Electric Vehicles
  • Poster
  • Toolkit
  • Employee transportation
(Transportation toolkit) Gasoline-powered vehicles are major sources of greenhouse gases (GHGs), smog-forming compounds, particulate matter, and other air pollutants. Widespread use of alternative fuels and advanced vehicles, including plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) can reduce the emissions that impact our air quality and public health. Employers are well-positioned to install non-residential…

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Why sustainable health care? Earth Day poster

  • Earth Day
  • Poster
Poster to celebrate health care's mission of healing people and the planet on Earth Day and every day. The poster reads "Why sustainable health care? Because healthy people rely on a healthy planet. Earth Day matters!" 

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Why sustainable health care poster

Environmental considerations fo endomechanical products

  • EPP
  • EPP Resource
  • Sustainable procurement
  • Medical products
The environmental considerations for this category are covered by the 13 standardized environmental questions for medical products. Additional suggested questions are provided that would pertain to any electronic equipment provided in this contract.

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Hospital reduces emissions, reduces energy costs by $84,000

  • Energy
  • Leaner Energy
  • Energy Case Study
  • Case Study
  • Buildings
A subject site is a 455-bed hospital in the Midwest with a large laundry operation servicing three ancillary long-term care sites in addition to the main hospital and physician buildings. The main hospital building was built in 1965. SITUATION The Engineering staff was challenged to help the site (and IDN) meet overall budget reduction goals in energy use cost reduction driven by National…

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Case study

Midwest hospital saves time and labor costs with improved boiler technology

  • Energy
  • Leaner Energy
  • Case Study
3D TRASAR technology for boilers helps a Midwest hospital improve boiler results, reduce testing and control time by 80 percent, and save $10,940 in labor costs.

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Get started guide

  • Climate and Health
  • Community Benefit
  • Toolkit
  • Get Started Guide
  • Leadership and education
(Delivering community benefit: Climate and health) Climate change affects the social and environmental determinants of health: clean air, safe drinking water, sufficient food and secure shelter. Doctors are increasingly treating patients with climate-related illnesses, and more than 70 percent recognize that climate is affecting their patients. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)…

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Climate and health

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

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