GreenCorner

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: July 2, 2009

• 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
• Emory & Univ. of Florida - Lighting efficiency
• Emory & Univ. of Florida - integrated design & HVAC Systems
• 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

• 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
• 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
• 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