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Kaiser Permanente to Pursue Minimum of LEED Gold for all New Major Projects | Kaiser Permanente News Center – As part of its ongoing commitment to create healthy communities, Kaiser Permanente today announced it will seek Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification for new construction of hospitals, large medical offices and other major projects.

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Kaiser Permanente is now the first U.S. healthcare system to complete a fully verified GHG emissions inventory – The Climate Registry


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TCR Public Reports – The Climate Registry – Kaiser Permanente is now the first U.S. healthcare system to complete a fully verified GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions inventory. Anyone can view the full 2010 report at The Climate Registry’s website: www.tcrreports.org Our emissions hotspots are mainly caused by building energy use (91% of our carbon footprint) [...]

Now Reading: Little things add up to $15 billion in environmental stewardship by hospitals


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Kaplan S, Sadler B, Little K, Franz C, Orris P. Can Sustainable Hospitals Help Bend the Health Care Cost Curve? The Commonwealth Fund, 2012

Can Sustainable Hospitals Help Bend the Health Care Cost Curve

As part of a preventive approach to controlling chronic disease, increasing numbers of hospitals have committed to minimizing adverse environmental impact of their operations on patients, staff, and the community, serving as role models for the health sector and society at large. In other words, health care is learning that it can’t heal people if [...]

Photo Friday: Climate Change is about People, not Polar Bears


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View This is Climate Change – Ads become more relevant from March to November, 2012 on Flickr.com Top image (March 2012): Ineffective Bottom Image (November 2012): Effective If you fly through DCA airport to get to Washington, DC, you’ve probably seen one of the images above on your way to the baggage carousel. I’m there [...]

Climate change looks like this, not like this, in downtown Washington, DC


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This is the reality of climate change in our cities. At one drug store: View on Flickr.com And at another: View Drug Store Shelf in the era of Climate Change on Flickr.com Allergy season started 3 weeks earlier than last year. The shelves are cleaned out. You can imagine that the consumers of these products [...]

The Green Doctor Office Program – MyGreenDoctor.org helps medical practices across the US prevent care before it’s needed


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Saving money while creating a healthier office & climate: Florida Medical Association’s Green Doctor Office Program In the last 2-4 weeks I’ve reflected on a consistent theme that I’ve encountered in the area of health care that goes beyond what the industry traditionally sees as its role, and that is the leadership of individual, dedicated [...]

#greenHC part 6: Are LEAN hospitals green hospitals? – Measuring CO2e in health care


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My presentation is today, and just one more section to go after this one. This post is about measurement. The question in the title of the post came from ePatientDave (@ePatientDave). He asked me, “I wonder if hospitals that are well advanced with LEAN are any different in the behaviors you cited – because everything [...]