Tools and resources

Guidance for PVC and DEHP elimination in medical products

• Chemicals
• Guide
• Safer medical products and devices

This document provides guidance for hospitals working to meet the polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and the plasticizer di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) elimination goal of the safer chemicals challenge.

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Understanding labels: Sustainable eggs

• Food
• Purchasing
• Food and Beverage Purchasing

This vetted list of criteria meets the definition of sustainable eggs for Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth.

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Understanding labels: Meat and poultry

• Purchasing
• Food

This vetted list of criteria and third-party certifications meets the definition of sustainable meat and poultry for Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth.

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Hackensack University Medical Center: Better meat case study

• Hackensack University Medical Center
• Case Study
• Local and sustainable purchasing
• Food

Hackensack University Medical Center’s annual food and beverage budget is $5 million with an estimated $1.5 million spend on meat and poultry. They serve more than 2.8 million meals annually. In only 18 months, Hackensack University Medical Center now leads the country in achieving a 98 percent benchmark of meat and poultry raised without routine antibiotics. Leadership is driving change through…

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Promoting and marketing antibiotic stewardship through food services

• Marketing
• Sustainable food service operations
• Guide

(Health Care Without Harm) This is a guide for food service staff to educate and incentivize around meat and poultry raised without routine antibiotics. Your facility has made a commitment to antibiotic stewardship and is working towards the goal of reducing antibiotic misuse and overuse through foodservice procurement. As part of food services or administration at your hospital, you’re working…

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Balanced menus recipes

• Food Tool
• Food
• Food Service

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Antibiotic stewardship toolkit: Passing food purchasing resolutions

• Food
• Food and Beverage Purchasing

(Health Care Without Harm) Across the country, health professionals are developing resolutions calling for an end to the procurement of meat produced with the routine (non-therapeutic) use of medically important antibiotics, to preserve the efficacy of these drugs for human medicine. Health Care Without Harm has developed a toolkit of helpful resources for facilities. The toolkit includes a how-…

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Nine plus ways hospitals can provide community benefit support

• Community Benefit and Wellness
• Food Service
• Guide

There are numerous ways that hospitals can provide community benefit support for healthy food access programs. This brief outlines nine common role categories — and on-the-ground examples — that hospitals are playing in support of these programs:  Provide grant support Provide use of hospital facilities Conduct food insecurity or health screening Conduct nutrition, food, or cooking education…

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Greenhealth Cost of Ownership toolkit

• Cost of Ownership
• Toolkit
• Sustainable procurement

The Greehealth Cost of Ownership Calculator is designed to support looking at costs beyond the price tag, to evaluate hidden expenses, such as energy and waste costs, and other operational costs of using a product allowing more informed decision-making based on the full costs to an organization. Below you will find the calculator as well as helpful training and support materials. For hospitals…

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Preventing Damage to Environment from Pharmaceuticals

• Guide

The huge quantities of medicines ending up as waste or in aquatic systems are a major environmental health issue. The increasing documentation of low dose effects makes pharmaceuticals a priorityarea  from an environmental health perspective.

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