Green Resources
- Premier's position
- Green Link newsletter
- Green Corner - Supplier, member success stories
- Environmental scorecard assessment tool
- 2008 Conference - Safe and Green Healthcare Design
- Product information
- Resources
Premier's position
Learn about Premier's position on EPP
Download Premier's EPP program flyer (.pdf) (308 KB)
Green Link newsletter
Premier's free, electronic newsletter distributed by the Premier Safety Institute to bring you the latest news, resources, and cost-saving success stories in green purchasing and healthcare practices.
- Green Link, current edition (Web version)
- Download a PDF version of Green Link (.pdf) (232 KB)
Green Corner - Supplier, member success stories
Read 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.
Environmental assessment tools
A short assessment tool for CEOs to rate their organizations pollution prevention, material purchasing, and waste management/reduction programs, developed in collaboration with Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E) and Health Care Without Harm (HCWH).
CEO executive self-assessment scorecard,
5-page (.pdf) (71 KB)
How does your healthcare organization compare?
Consider sharing the results of your environmental assessment. Premier will publish a summary of the results of this environmental assessment on our Web site. Data will be summarized by type and size of facility, and by state. You will be able to compare results with organizations similar to yours.
To participate, download and complete the assessment and use the included survey cover page to return to us by fax or mail. All results will remain confidential and anonymous, published in summary form only.
H2E Supplement - available from Practice Greenhealth (PGH)
Supplement to the Premier Executive Reporting Score Card on the Environment, this 28 page comprehensive environmental assessment tool, developed by Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E) -- now known as Practice Greenhealth. (PGH) -- is designed to help health care facilities conduct a complete assessment of their environmental program's status and develop goals and action plans to reduce waste, eliminate the use of mercury, and reduce other types of health care related pollution. These tools and resources are now incorporated and remain available from PGH.
Comprehensive H2E self-assessment, 27-page (.pdf) (963 KB)
Safety Store
Presentations from Premier's Governance Conference, 2008
Safe
and Green Healthcare Design - What is the Return on Investment? Blair L.
Sadler JD Former President and CEO Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego and Vice
Chair Center for Health Design and Gina Pugliese, Vice President , Safety
Institute, Premier Inc.
Download audio and slides of this conference from the Safety Store.
Product information
Environmental & safety product lists
Resources
Premier is committed to working with its members to define what environmentally preferable purchasing (EPP) means. In addition, Premier will assist its members in identifying environmentally preferable products under contract to meet national or federal requirements. The complete statement of Premier’s position on EPP may be downloaded.
- Environmentally preferable purchasing (EPP) web site
- Federal initiatives
- Healthcare industry initiatives
- EPP implementation
- PVC - Polyvinylchloride
- DEHP - Plasticized PVC
- Safer cleaners and pesticides
- Strategies and tools
- Premier's position statement
- Computers and electronics
- Pharmaceutical waste management
- Premier's EPP program (.pdf) (50 KB)
- Environmentally preferable product/services lists
- Mercury pollution prevention
- Latex allergies
- Reuse of single use devices