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2025 sustainability benchmark data
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Sustainable health care furnishing textiles guidance for manufacturers
This document provides guidance for manufacturers wishing to meet Health Care Without Harm’s furnishing textiles criteria. The criteria applies to textiles used on furnishings, as well as those used to decorate and provide patient privacy, within the healthcare setting and builds off the Healthy Interiors Guidance criteria. Sustainable Healthcare Furnishing Textiles is meant to be a stand-alone…
2025 Health care sustainability metrics report
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Coolfood for health care presentation
The Coolfood Pledge helps dining facilities – from hotels and restaurants to universities, schools, hospitals, and workplace cafeterias – cut their food-related greenhouse gas emissions by increasing and improving their plant-forward menu options.This 30-minute presentation discusses how food production contributes to climate change, how your hospital can employ low and no-cost solutions to…
Energy & water efficiency checklist: Quick actions for health care
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- Energy Efficiency
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2024 sustainability benchmark data
- Benchmark Report
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Sustainability Organizational Structure
Sustainability governance structures are put in place to ensure progress on sustainability initiatives. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s governance structure includes a high-level steering committee, and a range of topical working groups and task forces. They also have a network of local leaders who implement and integrate sustainability into departments on the ground.
Mayo Clinic Local Sustainability Subcommittee Charter
Charters define logistics, roles, responsibilities, priorities, and interdependencies of a sustainability program’s structure. Mayo Clinic’s Florida sustainability subcommittee charter begins with a purpose statement, outlining the reporting structure to the system level sustainability committee and highlighting the working relationship between governance structures at multiple levels.
Trinity Health Ann Arbor and Livingston Sustainability Commitment Statement
Sustainability commitment statements articulate how an organization’s mission, vision, values, and strategic priorities align with sustainability work, and underscore the importance to patients and communities. Trinity Health Ann Arbor’s statement references their values of justice and stewardship, outlining how carbon footprint reduction and enhanced sustainable operations has helped them become…
HealthPartners Sustainability Commitment Statement
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