Tools and resources

Transportation infographic

• Transportation
• Toolkit
• Employee transportation
• Fleet Vehicles
• Suppliers and Deliveries
• Poster

(Transportation toolkit) This infographic illustrates the opportunities health care has to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through green transportation programs along with specific examples from leading facilities. 

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Transportation goals

• Transportation
• Goal
• Toolkit
• Employee transportation
• Fleet Vehicles
• Suppliers and Deliveries

(Transportation toolkit) The Practice Greenhealth transportation goals have been developed to help hospitals create a baseline of key transportation performance metrics, set targets, and identify strategies to improve environmental and human health impacts of transportation-related activities. The goals focus on three areas of hospital-related transportation activities critical in achieving…

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Sustainability and Employee Engagement Resource List

• Engaged Leadership
• Employees
• Employee engagement
• Guide

Empower your staff, gain support from leadership, and celebrate your successes. Here are additional resources to help lead your community to a healthier future through organization-wide environmental stewardship. Sustainability and Employee Engagement Resource List    

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Sustainability and employee engagement planning document

• Engaged Leadership
• Employees
• Employee engagement
• Tool
• Toolkit

(Employee engagement toolkit) As with any other sustainability initiatives, a diverse team is critical to success, and it's no different with employee engagement. The planning document helps identify key team members and to brainstorm the various opportunities that can be learned from the white paper and the case studies. Sustainability and employee engagement planning document…

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Safer hand hygiene how-to guide

• Chemicals
• Hand Hygiene
• Toolkit
• Guide
• Get Started Guide

Some commonly used antimicrobials in hand hygiene products can pose hazards for employees and the environment and may increase antimicrobial resistance The Practice Greenhealth Safer hand hygiene how-to guide provides guidance and resources for hospitals to eliminate the use of triclosan and triclocarban in hand hygiene products in non-critical areas.

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Medical waste treatment and disposal

• Waste
• Medical Waste

The main task of a regulated treatment system is to render the waste noninfectious. The technical means to disinfect medical waste has existed for a long time. Incineration was once the method of choice for dealing with medical waste, and many hospitals burned their waste on site. But it gradually became clear that, while protecting the public from infection, hospitals using onsite incinerators…

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Pharmaceutical waste background

• Waste
• Pharmaceutical Waste
• Guide

Increased awareness around the presence of pharmaceuticals in drinking water has resulted in closer scrutiny and increased regulatory oversight of pharmaceutical waste.  Evidence of feminization of fish raised a red flag and resulted in more studies, closer scrutiny, and concern for human health and the environment.  The U.S. Geological Survey has done extensive work to characterize the kinds…

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Less water presentation

• Water
• Presentation
• Toolkit

(Less water toolkit) The Health care water conservation and pollution prevention presentation and script was developed to help you educate your community. Download the presentation with notes to use as you see fit.  

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Appliances

• EPP
• EPP Resource

RFP Questions Refrigerators Ice Machines and Water Coolers 

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Best Practices in Energy Efficiency

• Best Practices
• Energy
• Energy Efficiency

Energy efficiency can enhance human health by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving outdoor air quality and decreasing acid rain. The energy needed to run commercial and industrial buildings in the United States produces 19 percent of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, 12 percent of nitrogen oxides, and 25 percent of sulfur dioxide, at a cost of $110 billion a year. The health care sector is…

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