Reports and Case Studies
Green Guide for Healthcare
Green Guide for Healthcare: A best practices guide for healthy and sustainable building design, construction, and operations for the healthcare industry. The Green Guide for Health Care™, is the healthcare sector’s first quantifiable sustainable design toolkit integrating enhanced environmental and health principles and practices into the planning, design, construction, operations and maintenance of their facilities. This Guide provides the healthcare sector with a voluntary, self-certifying metric toolkit of best practices that designers, owners, and operators can use to guide and evaluate their progress towards high performance healing environments. Download it for free at www.gghc.org.
Case Study: Northwest Hospitals for a Healthy Environment Pilot: Innovation in Plastics Recycling
Learn about an innovative pilot program that has created a new recycling infrastructure for rural hospitals. Read more.
Going Green : A Resource Kit for Pollution Prevention in Health Care
The Center, in collaboration with Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (OAHHS), distributed HCWH ‘s Going Green : A Resource Kit for Pollution Prevention in Health Care to all Oregon hospitals. The kit is also available on-line at http://www.noharm.org/goingGreen
Other Resources
Thermometer Exchanges
Over 15,000 mercury thermometers have been exchanged for digital thermometers at community collections throughout Oregon and Southwest Washington. For more information on organizing exchanges, contact OCEH or browse HCWH’s How to Plan and Put On a Mercury Thermometer Exchange
Links
Pollution Prevention in Healthcare
Mercury
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