Practice Greenhealth

Events

Introduction to sustainability governance

Date range
June 12, 2025, 1 pm ET (10 am PT)
partners-exclusive
Description
Join this 90 minute session to learn the basics of sustainability governance including core documents, structures, staffing, stakeholders, and resourcing. **Counts toward the Accelerating Health Care Sustainability series certificate of completion.

Introduction to securing leadership support

Date range
June 5, 2025, 1 pm ET (10 am PT)
public
Description
Join this 90 minute session to learn how to prepare a pitch to executive leadership and which channels of appeal and communication skills can help advance sustainability beyond awareness to action with this critical audience. **Counts toward the Accelerating Health Care Sustainability series certificate of completion.

Practice Greenhealth’s policy pulse (April)

Date range
April 23, 2025, 4 pm ET (1 pm PT)
partners-exclusive
Description
Our in-house policy experts shared emerging challenges and opportunities related to the latest climate and environmental policy trends affecting health care sustainability.

Practice Greenhealth’s policy pulse

Date range
March 26, 2025, 4 pm ET (1 pm PT)
partners-exclusive
Description
Join our 30-minute monthly partners-exclusive forums to stay informed about the latest climate and environmental policy trends impacting health care sustainability. Our in-house policy experts will share emerging challenges and opportunities, and you will leave with your most pressing questions answered.

Harnessing policy to advance your sustainability efforts

Date range
March 20, 2025, 3 pm ET (12 pm PT)
partners-exclusive
Description
Listen to all the ways policy advocacy plays a role in advancing your sustainability efforts. Hear from BMC and Providence, members of the U.S. Health Care Climate Council, about their experiences and how to engage internal teams, such as communications and government affairs, on sustainability policy opportunities.

Enhance your climate resilience plan with new guidance

Date range
November 19, 2024, 1 pm ET (10 am PT)
public
Description
This session will provide an overview of health care climate resilience planning basics and share new concepts and elements for inclusion in existing climate resilience plans.

Solutions for common GHG inventory obstacles

Date range
October 9, 2024, 2 pm ET (11 am PT)
partners-exclusive
Description
Northwell Health, SSM Health, and AdventHealth shared strategies to develop strong governance, establish decarbonization goals, and gather and analyze data for a complete GHG inventory. Facilitators rounded out the workshop with some GHG inventory mythbusting. 

Introduction to integrating sustainability into your culture

Date range
September 26, 2024, 1 pm ET (10 am PT)
partners-exclusive
Description
This session identified key stakeholders, communication tools, proven engagement practices, and clinical engagement opportunities. **Counts toward the Accelerating Health Care Sustainability series certificate of completion.

Introduction to sustainability governance

Date range
September 19, 2024, 1 pm ET (10 am PT)
partners-exclusive
Description
Learn all about the basics of sustainability governance, including core documents, structures, staffing, stakeholders, resourcing, and key processes, such as using stakeholder mapping to inform sustainability program structures and strategies to build trust with stakeholders from a system-level perspective.

Introduction to data & goal setting

Date range
September 12, 2024, 1 pm ET (10 am PT)
partners-exclusive
Description
Measurement is one of the keys to management, and data empowers leaders to make decisions based on facts, trends, and statistics. This session covered goal setting, data governance, and developing baseline data. **Counts toward the Accelerating Health Care Sustainability series certificate of completion.

Introduction to securing leadership support

Date range
September 5, 2024, 1 pm ET (10 am PT)
public
Description

Sustainability programs that align with organizational priorities will gain senior leadership’s support and lead to long-term success. Most top-performing health organizations have an executive-level champion at the top of their sustainability reporting structure. This brings credibility and authority to a sustainability program, setting a tone from the top that this work is essential, and so is resourcing it. Acquiring leadership support can sometimes be a tall order.

Quickstart tutorial: Health Care Emissions Impact Calculator 2.0

Date range
July 31, 2024, 2 pm ET (11 am PT)
partners-exclusive
Description

Join our expert Keith Edgerton for a 75-minute tutorial on the calculator's new features. Bring your questions, and learn how your organization can benefit from these improvements.

 

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Who We Are

Practice Greenhealth is the leading sustainable health care organization, delivering environmental solutions to more than 1,700 hospitals and health systems in the United States and Canada. Partnership opportunities include hospitals, health systems, community health organizations, NGOs, nonprofits, government, academic institutions, and the health care value chain.