Press

Winning a Practice Greenhealth award provides an incredible opportunity to get good publicity for your environmental efforts, both within your organization and within your community. Often winners report that their award provided them with the visibility and high-level support they needed to take their programs to the next level. Putting in even minimal effort to spread the word can have high returns. Don’t miss this opportunity to get positive attention!

Practice Greenhealth is here to help. We’ve developed sample press releases for you to customize and use, tips on getting the word out to help you get started, and sample results of award winner outreach to demonstrate the possiblities. Take advantage of these great resources.

2008 Award Winner Press Kits

• Partner Recognition
• Making Medicine Mercury-Free
• Partner for Change
• Champion for Change
• System for Change
• Environmental Leadership

Sample Award Winner Media Hits

2008

Thinking ‘green’ award sends 100 trees in India
Norridge and Harwood Heights News, July 3, 2008
A grove of 100 trees is being planted in honor of Advocate Lutheran General Hospital by local families determined to save their homes and way of life in Tiruvannamalai, India—a country devastated by deforestation and global climate change.

MedAssets Supply Chain Systems Receives Champion for Change Award for Third Consecutive Year
Business Wire, June 13, 2008
“We recognize the importance of providing environmentally sound services and products to hospitals for use in patient care and facility management. MedAssets will continue to develop resources and create practical tools that enable our customers to improve environmental performance for their communities and to deliver greater value to their patients in meeting their expectations with green programs.”

Amerinet Receives National Award for Environmental Achievement
Business Wire, May 21, 2008
“It’s an honor to be recognized for our efforts in helping healthcare providers identify and create strategies to advance green initiatives in our industry,” said Todd C. Ebert, Amerinet president and CEO. “By helping our members reach their goals, we are making healthcare delivery safer for patients, communities and the environment.”

CHW Receives National Recognition for Healthy Environmental Practices
The Earth Times, May 21, 2008
“Catholic Healthcare West has been a pioneer in challenging hospitals to support healthy environmental practices,” says Lloyd H. Dean, CHW’s President/CEO. “We recognize the vital link between caring for our patients and caring for our planet. We are very proud of our hospitals’ environmental achievements and their continued hard work and dedication to this cause.”

EPA Mid-Atlantic Region Honored with Award for Helping Green Hospitals
U.S. EPA Region 3, May 21, 2008
EPA’s mid-Atlantic region was one of 140 organizations recognized by Practice Greenhealth at a ceremony in Pittsburgh, Pa. today for outstanding contributions to environmentally-responsible health care.

10 Awards for Green Health
CHW Healthcare Blog, May 21, 2008
...10 of our hospitals have been honored with awards from Practice Greenhealth for their commitment to a healthy environment. We’re very proud of the work accomplished at these hospitals. At our core we understand the interconnection between a healthy environment and healthy people.

Perkins+Will Named as a Winner of the Practice Greenhealth 2008 Champion for Change Award
PR Inside, May 20, 2008
Perkins+Will, a global integrated design firm, will be named among the winners of the “Champion for Change Award,” presented today at the 2008 Environmental Excellence award ceremonies. Sponsored by Practice Greenhealth, the “Champion for Change” awards recognize organizations that have successfully greened their own operations while helping others to reduce their impact on the environment.

2007

Minnesota health care facilities win honors
Source Newsletter – 2007, Issue 1
Ridgeview Medical Center, Waconia, received the H2E Environmental Leadership Award, the nation’s most prestigious recognition of innovation in environmentally responsible health care. ... Hutchinson Area Health Care, Hutchinson, and University of Minnesota Medical Center—Fairview, Minneapolis, received the Making Medicine Mercury-Free Award. “Because of increased hazardous waste regulatory oversight, many hospitals are just beginning to wake up to the environmental and public health impacts of their systems,” said Catherine Zimmer, MnTAP health care specialist. “These award-winners should be considered superstars for being among the leaders in making improvements.”

Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare: H2E Partners for Change

Terry McGuire, Senior Vice President of Mission Services for Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, speaks about environmental efforts of the System and the H2E awards won by its facilities.

NMH lauded for reducing Environmental impact
Gaylord Herald Times, MI – May 30, 2007
Northern Michigan Hospital of Petoskey received a 2007 Partners for Change Award at the Environmental Excellence Summit on May 14 in Minneapolis, Minn., hosted by Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E)...

Broadlane receives second consecutive national award For environmental achievement
Pollution Online – May 29, 2007
Dallas, TX – Broadlane announced recently that it received a 2007 Champion for Change award at the annual Environmental Excellence Summit hosted by Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E)...

Mercy gets environmental honor
Beloit Daily News, WI – May 29, 2007
Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E) recently announced Mercy Walworth Hospital and Medical Center, Wisconsin and Mercy Harvard Hospital, Illinois received the 2007 H2E Partners for Change and Making Medicine Mercury-Free Awards…

Healthcare centers find prescription for green business
River Valley Business Report, LaCrosse, WI – May 23, 2007
La Crosse’s two healthcare systems aren’t just some of the region’s biggest employers and taxpayers. They’re also among the biggest energy and resource users. ... Gundersen Lutheran has won two awards from Hospitals for a Health Environment. ...

Hospital recognized for reducing mercury
Hutchinson Leader, MN – May 21, 2007
A Making Medicine Mercury-Free Award was presented to Hutchinson Community Hospital public safety officer Karen Ober by Hospitals For A Healthy Environment. ...

Hospital gets environmental awards
Sun-Journal, Lewiston, ME – May 19, 2007
Bridgton Hospital has been recognized by Hospitals for a Healthy Environment as a winner of the 2007 Partners for Change Award and the 2007 …

Ridgeview garners environmental honor
Patriot-General, Waconia, MN – May 18, 2007
Ridgeview Medical Center and 127 other hospitals, health systems and health care organizations were honored at Hospitals for a Healthy Environment’s (H2E) annual meeting for their achievements in reducing waste, in energy conservation, and in improving environmental performance.

Local hospital exec helps Wheaton win recycling award
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, IA – May 12, 2007
Three years ago, Cedar Falls native Randy Vorland of Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare went to work to improve waste management practices…

Legacy Mount Hood receives environmental leadership award
Gresham Outlook, OR – May 11, 2007
... Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center has been awarded the 2007 H2E Environmental Leadership Award by the national organization Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E).