Tools & Resources
Practice Greenhealth offers a wide variety of tools, educational opportunities, and services aimed at greening the healthcare industry.
Greenhealth Tracker
If you’re not managing your waste, you’re wasting your resources. Greenhealth Tracker, Practice Greenhealth’s environmental data tracking tool, helps your facility understand how hundreds of thousands of waste disposal dollars are being spent and organizes information by each type of waste.
Member Toolkits
Practice Greenhealth offers a wide range of tools and resources to assist you in further developing your programs. These tools are intended for use by hospitals, health care systems and other stakeholders that are members of Practice Greenhealth. Business members, please see the Business Member Toolkit for additional resources.
Tools include: Step-By-Step Guides, Environmental Commitment Statements, Environmental Stewardship Brochures, Sample Training & Education Materials, Green Teams, Sample Posters , and use of the Practice Greenhealth logo.
Business Member Toolkits
Especially for Business Members of Practice Greenhealth, here is assistance in promoting your green products and services and improve your environmental bottom line. Tools and resources include information on Getting Started, Creating your Business Listing, placing the Practice Greenhealth logo on your website, and access to information on doing business with GPOs, environmental questions your customers are likely to ask you, and data on Practice Greenhealth hospitals.
Sustainability Benchmark Report
Available for download by Practice Greenhealth members, the Annual Environmental Excellence Awards Sustainability Benchmark Report, is based on data provided in 2010 Environmental Excellence Award applications by 114 Partner for Change and 24 Environmental Leadership Circle Award winners, including healthcare facilities of all types and sizes located across the country.
Energy Impact Calculator
What are your facility’s energy health impacts and costs? What can you do to improve them? Calculate how your energy use impacts health.
Listserv Information Exchange
The Practice Greenhealth Information Exchange Listserv is a highly popular tool, where health care environmental program colleagues share information to facilitate progress toward overall environmental improvements.
Practice Greenhealth Forum
The Practice Greenhealth Forum is the place for members to network, collaborate, and ask questions on the greening of healthcare. This tool is exclusively for Practice Greenhealth members. The Forum is broken out into categories that align with the rest of the website for consistency and to help better target your questions and comments. As an added benefit, RSS Feeds are available for the entire forum, individual topic areas, and even individual threads, so you can subscribe to exactly what you’re interested in. Monitor them all or just a few.
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