GreenCorner® case studies

Success stories on green purchasing, products, and healthcare practices

The GreenCorner Web site is dedicated to showcasing success stories in the area of environmental or "green" initiatives or programs that contribute to a safer and healthier environment, with particular emphasis on Premier members in collaboration with contracted suppliers. Guidelines for submission of success stories

Read success stories on the following topics:

Note:  All files less than 2MG unless indicated.

Updated: January 26, 2010

• Computers-electronics
• Construction: green, evidence based, LEED
• Donation - Medical Supplies-Equipment
• Energy efficiency
• Energy Star winners
• Environmental purchasing
• Environment of care
• Food
• 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
• Aurora Health Care’s Asset Recovery program generates dollars, finds home for used equipment
• Premier recycles 3 tons corporate IT equipment
• Saint Francis Care, Hartford, CT e-waste initiatives
• Thomas Jefferson University Hospital safely disposes old computers

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Construction: green, evidence based, LEED

• Emory & Univ. of Florida - Sustainable flooring
• Geisinger Health System "painted" in LEED gold and silver
• LEED-EB Project Case Study: JohnsonDiversey Headquarters
• Lexington Medical Center builds SC's first “green certified” medical complex
• PeaceHealth's Sacred Heart Medical Center 'healthy by design'
• Sumner Regional Medical Center adds ‘green’ touch to new tower
• SSM St. Clare Health Center plans “green roof”

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Donation - Medical Supplies-Equipment

• Aurora Health Care’s Asset Recovery program generates dollars, finds home for used equipment
• Global Links partners with hospitals including UPMC to direct surplus supplies overseas
• St. John’s Riverside donates unused medical supplies, equipment

• CHW’s environmental vision powers successful energy conservation - healthy building initiative
• Covenant Health Systems first participant in SPHERE Reverse Auction
• Emory & Univ. of Florida - Lighting efficiency
• Emory & Univ. of Florida - integrated design & HVAC Systems
• Excellus BlueCross BlueShield saves $450,000 on electric power through Premier’s SPHERE Web-based reverse auction program
• Geisinger saves and $3 million annually with energy efficiency
• Gunderson Lutheran Health System goal - energy neutral by 2014
• Ingalls Heath System achieves green energy savings with SPHERE Reverse Auction
• Medline energy conservation efforts
• PeaceHealth implements a Strategic Energy Mgmt Plan (SEMP)
• PeaceHealth commits to energy efficiency through SEMP
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• Saint Francis Care, Hartford, CT saves on energy efficient programs
• St Francis Hospital, Maryville MO earns energy recognition from ASHE and EPA
• Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital energy conservation plan
• Steelcase ‘wind farm’ makes it largest buyer of wind power in furniture industry
• Tandus renewable energy source
• Tri-City implements energy efficient equipment and processes

• Heartland Regional Medical Center reduces O2 tanks

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Food

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• Aurora Health Care is greening its foodservice operations
• 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

Additional food service resource

• Healthy Food in Health Care
  A 2008 Survey of Healthy Food in Health Care Pledge Hospitals

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• AstraZeneca delivers on corporate sustainability
• Catholic Healthcare West “green” successes highlighted in 2008 annual report
• Cleveland Clinic’s Environmental Stewardship program
• Covenant Health Systems on environmental stewardship fast track
• Harris Methodist showcases "green" efforts with video
• Hospital Systems earns ‘Green Business’ certification
• Kimberly-Clark sustainability report, 2007

• Biking among commuting alternatives at Mercy General Hospital

• Albany Medical Center saves $1.7 million recycling lab chemical waste
• Avera Heart Hospital’s food program on the inside and out
• Beth Israel Deaconess recycling program
• Blue wrap recycling pilot project at Harbor Hospital in Baltimore
• Carolinas HealthCare System reduces waste with Ansell’s new packaging
• 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
• Fairview reduces operating room waste
• Harris Methodist lauded for pollution prevention
• Healthy foods and healthy environment at Baptist Hospital of Miami
• Lexington Medical goes green with recycled paper while decreasing costs
• 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
• St. John’s Riverside Hospital honored for environmental achievements
• St. John’s Riverside donates unused medical supplies, equipment
• Sparrow Health System's recycling program
• St. Elizabeth Medical Center sets new recycling benchmarks
• SSM Health Care bans plastic water bottles
• Tandus cites Cleveland Clinic for recycling efforts
• Western Maryland nets big savings by compacting waste