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Ten Steps to Getting Started with Practice Greenhealth
Jun 06 2008
Topic
New to Practice Greenhealth? This call is for you! Gather your team together for data collection, goal setting, Practice Greenehealth support, StatGreen newsletter, webinars, and Awards!
Takehome Value
Tools and Resources to get started including sample newsletter, press release, kick off memo, and information on data collection to set a baseline and help assist with goal setting. Review of resources to support you in your work.
Points To Include
• Policy and Mission Development
• Environmental Reporting Structure
• Purchasing’s Role
• Waste and Material Data Collection
• Integrated Design Teams
• Safer Materials
• Green Building
• Volume and Toxicity Reduction
• Communication
• Reporting
• Recognition
• Support through tools and Resources
Objectives
To understand and work with Practice Greenhealth to integrate a long term commitment to continuous environmental improvement into the culture of your organization.
Presenters
- Janet Brown Practice Greenhealth
Email: jbrown@practicegreenhealth.org Telephone: 866-598-2110
 Janet Brown is Director, Sustainable Operations for Practice Greenhealth, a new not-for-profit, joining together Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E), The Green Guide for Health Care and the Health Care Clean Energy Exchange. Janet leads environmental improvement activities for membership facilities.
Janet coordinates a monthly Greening Operations webinar series and is on the Steering Committee of the Green Guide for Health Care, a self-certifying tool to steer facilities through greening their design, construction, and daily operations. Janet is currently co-chairing a committee to review and update the operations section of the Green Guide for Health Care. Janet writes a column “Greening Your Practice” for Holistic Primary Care, a magazine for primary care physicians.
Janet coordinated health care environmental management programs for Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City from 1991 – 2004. Beth Israel received numerous awards including the EPA’s Environmental Quality Award in 2001.
Janet lives in Amherst, MA with her husband and two children.
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