Integrated Operations & Education

Integrated Operations addresses activities that cross departmental lines, like staff training and creating the structure to support ongoing environmental improvement activity. While some environmental activities are departmental, other initiatives involve every single employee throughout the medical center.

Equally important is the education and training of staff at all levels of the organization, as well as patients and visitors on green health care and how they can do their part to help implement and maintain environmental sustainability programs.

The Green Guide for Health Care is a self-certifying toolkit to steer facilities through greener design, construction, and operations. All of the activities that are addressed as part of training and education are broken down into sections in the Integrated Operations.

Integral to effective implementation of green initiatives is a team of individuals representing a variety of disciplines – a Green Team. A Guide for Creating Effective Green Teams in Health Care provides detailed information on the importance of and how to create these teams.