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LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR Don’t Keep Your Success A Secret!Good news is traveling fast! Health care organizations that received awards at the May 14-15 Environmental Excellence Summit have been lauded in print and electronic news media for their extraordinary “greening” efforts. Here are some examples: Greenville Daily Reflector, NC – May 23, 2007 Hospitals for a Healthy Environment, based in New Hampshire, has given Pitt Memorial a Making Medicine Mercury-Free award, PCMH officials announced Tuesday. ... Affinity honored for green building efforts Appleton Post Crescent, WI – May 21, 2007 Affinity Health System was inducted into the Environmental Leadership Circle at the Environmental Excellence Summit sponsored by Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E). ... Hospital recognized for reducing mercury Hutchinson Leader, MN – May 21, 2007 A Making Medicine Mercury-Free Award was presented to Hutchinson Community Hospital public safety officer Karen Ober by Hospitals For A Healthy Environment. ... Healthcare centers find prescription for green business River Valley Business Report, LaCrosse, WI – May 23, 2007 La Crosse’s two healthcare systems aren’t just some of the region’s biggest employers and taxpayers. They’re also among the biggest energy and resource users. ... Gundersen Lutheran has won two awards from Hospitals for a Health Environment. ... Hospital gets environmental awards Sun-Journal, Lewiston, ME – May 19, 2007 BRIDGTON – Bridgton Hospital has been recognized by Hospitals for a Healthy Environment as a winner of the 2007 Partners for Change Award and the 2007 … Legacy Mount Hood receives environmental leadership award Gresham Outlook, OR – May 11, 2007 ... Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center has been awarded the 2007 H2E Environmental Leadership Award by the national organization Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E). ... St. Elizabeth Partners for Change Kentucky Post, KY – May 9, 2007 St. Elizabeth Medical Center announced Tuesday it has won the Partner for Change Award from Hospitals for a Healthy Environment for the fifth straight year. ... It’s wonderful to see some of the 128 award-winners getting the attention their achievements deserve. How about your organization? Have you talked with your PR department or called your local newspaper to spread your good news? Positive attention strengthens your institution’s green program—-and spreads the idea of environmental responsibility to your community! Don’t miss this chance to be recognized for your work. Find help here. Laura Brannen, Director, H2E |
In This IssueThink Globally,Publicize Locally! 2007 AwardsInaugurateLeadership Circle |
Publicity Begins at Home!
Make Sure Your Organization Celebrates Your Award!
Does your CEO know what your Green Team has accomplished? Does everyone who works at your hospital know that it has won a national environmental award? Is the word getting out to every community member who visits your facility?
Publicity isn’t just a matter of targeting press and television. Your own organization needs to know about your Practice Greenhealth award. Share the news through in-house newsletter and listservs. Post it on Intranet sites and on posters and fliers. Make sure that everyone from the loading dock to the corner office shares the pride! Help them become stakeholders in your ongoing campaign for environmental excellence!
How does in-house publicity happen? Talk with your Public Relations Department. Plan an in-house celebration of your Practice Greenhealth award and the people who made it possible… and then invite the media! Make use of Practice Greenhealth’s sample press releases and press kits. And don’t be shy! After all, you’re not blowing your own horn. You’re sounding the charge toward a cleaner, healthier future!
June Teleconferences
This month H2E is hosting another free teleconference for H2E Partners and Champions:
June 15: Introduction to H2E and Data Collection (sponsored by Bio Systems)
Please also join us later in the month when we address mercury elimination in your institution:
June 22: Making Medicine Mercury Free
For more information and to register, see www.h2e-online.org
Access to all teleconferences is included in a $199 annual subscription to H2E. Subscribe now!
2007 H2E Award Winners Include First Leadership Circle Inductees
In 2007, H2E recognized 128 hospitals, health systems, and health care organizations with a total of 146 awards for outstanding achievements in reducing waste, eliminating mercury, and improving environmental performance.
This year’s awards were highlighted by the inauguration of H2E’s Environmental Leadership Circle – a permanent recognition granted to facilities and systems exemplifying environmental excellence in health care. H2E’s Environmental Leadership Circle members have integrated sustainable environmental programs into their core mission, demonstrating their dedication to the health of patients, workers, communities, and the global environment. The 2007 inductees into the Environmental Leadership Circle are:
Affinity Health System, Appleton, WI
Baystate Health, Springfield, MA
Borgess Medical Center, Kalamazoo, MI
Bronson Methodist Hospital, Kalamazoo, MI
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
Dominican Hospital, Santa Cruz, CA
Gundersen Lutheran, La Crosse, WI
Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital, Fort Worth, TX
Legacy Health System, Portland, OR
Mercy Hospital – Mercy Health System, Janesville, WI
Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR
Ridgeview Medical Center, Waconia, MN
St. Mary’s Hospital Medical Center, Green Bay, WI
St. Joseph’s Medical Center, Stockton, CA
University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, Ann Arbor, MI
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
W.A. Foote Hospital, Jackson, MI
Greener Operations NOW! Highlights Green Cleaning
The second quarterly issue of H2E’s online, in-depth how-to journal, Greener Operations NOW!, is ready to go to work for you! Every issue of Green Cleaning NOW! zeroes in on one issue or opportunity in environmentally responsible health care practice. Our second edition is all about green cleaning, and features effective strategies and expert advice on everything from cleaning products to infection control. Of course, there’s another fascinating poll, and a chance for you to win an iPod just for sharing your experience and opinions!
New H2E Partners
The following facilities and organizations have recently joined H2E:
Bates Troy Healthcare Linen Services, Binghamton, NY
Currie Medical Specialties, Inc., Monrovia, CA
Edgerton Hospital and Health Services, Edgerton, WI
Efficiency Vermont, Burlington, VT
Enviroclean Management Services., Dallas, TX
Flagstaff Medical Center, Flagstaff, AZ
General Chemical Corp., Framingham, MA
Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Des Moines, IA
Knox Community Hospital, Mt. Vernon, OH
Leach Wallace Associates, Inc., Elkridge, MD
Lowell General Hospital, Lowell, MA
New Island Hospital, Beth Page, NY
Post & Schell, P.C., Philadelphia, PA
Primary Plus Family Medicine LLC, North Charleston, MD
RTK Environmental Group, Stamford, CT
Saint Clare, Weston, WI
San Juan Regional Medical Center, Farmington, NM
St. Joseph of Orange, Orange, CA
St. Mary, Leonardtown, MD
TSO3, Mansfield, TX
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
University Wisconsin Whitewater Health and Counseling Service, Whitewater, WI
Zimmer Gunsul Frasca, Los Angeles, CA
Welcome to H2E!
Want to know who’s standing with you in the vanguard of healthy health care? You can find the full list of H2E Partners here. Facilities are listed by state, and organizations by category.
Join H2E
Becoming an H2E Partner is easy, free, and gives you access to great resources. Founded by the US Environmental Protection Agency, the American Hospital Association, the American Nurses Association and Health Care Without Harm, H2E provides practical tools to improve health care’s environmental performance and rewards the field’s best performers. Learn more at www.h2e-online.org.
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