Green corner
Success stories on green purchasing, products, and healthcare practices
This Web site is dedicated to showcasing success stories in environmental or "green" initiatives, or programs that contribute to a safer and healthier environment, with particular emphasis on Premier members and contracted suppliers. Guidelines for submission of success stories.
Read success stories on the following topics:
Note: All files less than 2MG unless indicated.
Updated: August 8, 2008
- Computers-electronics
- Construction: green, evidence based, LEED
- Energy efficiency
- Energy Star winners
- Environmental purchasing
- Environment of care
- Food
- Green Cleaners
- Indoor air pollution
- Leadership - corporate
- Reducing carbon footprint
- Recycling and waste reduction
- Toxic chemicals
- Water Conservation
Computers-electronics
- Beth Israel Deaconess turns e-waste into dollars
- Premier offers "green" member computer options
- Premier recycles 3 tons corporate IT equipment
- Saint Francis Care, Hartford, CT e-waste initiatives
- Thomas Jefferson University Hospital safely disposes old computers
Construction: green, evidence based, LEED
- Emory & Univ. of Florida - Sustainable flooring
- LEED-EB Project Case Study: JohnsonDiversey Headquarters
- New Armstrong flooring uses renewable resources
- PeaceHealth's Sacred Heart Medical Center 'healthy by design'
- SSM St. Clare Health Center plans “green roof”
Energy efficiency
40 ways to go Green for
Grainger- Emory & Univ. of Florida - Lighting efficiency
- Emory & Univ. of Florida - integrated design & HVAC Systems
- Knoll lighting – energy efficient, low mercury options
- Medline energy conservation efforts
- Saint Francis Care, Hartford, CT saves on energy efficient programs
- Steelcase ‘wind farm’ makes it largest buyer of wind power in furniture industry
- Tandus renewable energy source
Energy Star winners
- West Jefferson earns Energy Star with Johnson Controls support
- Saint Francis Care - Hartford, CT
- St. Francis - Maryville, MO
Environmental purchasing
Environment of Care
Food
- Organic tea specialty supplier Numi supports healthy environment
- Overlake Hospital Medical Center takes holistic healthy food approach
- Thomas Jefferson University Hospital grows health food program
- Employee vegetable garden among Fairview Hospital's healthy food initiatives
- St. Joseph Health System uses grant for healthy food program
- Avera Heart Hospital’s food program on the inside and out
- Catholic Healthcare West commits to healthy foods
- Children's Hospital (Seattle) launches model food recycling program
- Covenant Health Systems' plan drives healthy food choices
- Healthy foods and healthy environment at Baptist Hospital of Miami
- Premier's healthy food initiatives
- Stonyfield Farm promotes healthy food programs
- Texas Health Resources eliminating trans fats
Green Cleaners
- MSC Industrial Supply goes green (1.3 MB)
Indoor air pollution
- Beth Israel Deaconess air quality efforts
- Emory, Univ. of Florida, Kaiser Permanente and Discovery Health Center - Indoor air quality: Materials selection
- St. Elizabeth Hospital, Covington, KY, goes EtO-free
Leadership - corporate
- AstraZeneca delivers on corporate sustainability
- Ascent Healthcare Solutions reduces waste with reprocessing, recyling
- Covenant Health Systems on environmental stewardship fast track
- Georgia Pacific products support waste reduction and recycling
- Harris Methodist showcases "green" efforts with video
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Hospital Systems earns ‘Green Business’ certification
- Kimberly-Clark sustainability report, 2007
- Lanier's Environmental Leadership statement (2.9 MB)
- Nemschoff outlines environmental initiatives
- Philips presents 'Sustainable Lighting Solutions'
- SCA Tissue's sustainability report (2.6 MB)
- Steelcase’s “cradle to cradle” protocol supports environmentally sustainable products
Reducing carbon footprint
Recycling and waste reduction
- SSM Health Care bans plastic water bottles
- Albany Medical Center saves $1.7 million recycling lab chemical waste
- Ascent Healthcare Solutions addresses environmental contributions through reprocessing, recycling
- Avera Heart Hospital’s food program on the inside and out
- Beth Israel Deaconess recycling program
- Chelsea Community Hospital, Wieland partner in furniture reuse
- Children's Hospital (Seattle) launches model food recycling program
- Coral Springs Medical Center program cuts hazardous waste in half
- Covenant Health Systems earns praise for waste reduction efforts
- Dartmouth Hitchcock on-site autoclave saves $250,000
- Harris Methodist lauded for pollution prevention
- Healthy foods and healthy environment at Baptist Hospital of Miami
- Methodist Medical Center and reusable sharps containers
- North Broward Hospital District's award for "green" efforts in clinics and MD offices
- Oregon hospitals recycle bulbs
- Pitt Plastics offers "green" trash bag options, compostable, recycled content
- PharmEcology gets patent on pharmaceutical waste ID system
- St. John’s Riverside Hospital honored for environmental achievements
- Sparrow Health System's recycling program
- St. Elizabeth Medical Center sets new recycling benchmarks
- SterilMed's SUD reprocessing services
- Tandus cites Cleveland Clinic for recycling efforts
- Tandus helps hospitals divert carpet from landfills
- TimeMed offers label recycling program (3 MB)
- Western Maryland nets big savings by compacting waste
Toxic chemicals
- Baystate Health System turns to safer, cost-effective pest control
- Ridgeview Medical Center benefits from water system improvements
- Zebra Technologies reduces hazardous ink chemicals
Water Conservation