Download Report: Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Agenda: A Comprehensive Environmental Health Agenda for Hospitals and Health Systems Around the World (pdf)
Healing Garden Grows in Bhopal
The story of the Sambhavna Clinic, a non-profit holistic health clinic in Bhopal, India, built to treat those injured by the Union Carbide toxic gas release in 1984. enlarge video
The story of the Sambhavna Clinic, a non-profit holistic health clinic in Bhopal, India, built to treat those injured by the Union Carbide toxic gas release in 1984. enlarge video
Health Care Without Harm is an international coalition of more than 470 organizations in 52 countries working to transform the health care sector so it is no longer a source of harm to people and the environment. enlarge video
Green Guide for Health Care
Imagine: Cancer treatment facilities built without materials linked to cancer; pediatric clinics free of chemicals that trigger asthma; hospitals with healthy food, fresh air, sunlight ...
Imagination is becoming reality today with a dynamic new healthy building initiative being used by leading health care institutions around the world. The Green Guide for Health Care is the first quantifiable sustainable design, construction and operations toolkit customized for the healthcare sector — and a transformational tool for building hospitals that are healthy for people and the environment.
Best practices in the Green Guide for Health Care include:
- Incorporating healing design elements such as daylighting and views of nature
- Using innovative technologies to reduce energy and water usage
- Reducing hazardous chemicals such as mercury, lead, dioxin, cadmium, phthalates, and halogenated flame retardants
- Implementing green operations, ranging from organic food to housekeeping and landscaping protocols
Updated GGHC Resources
- Sustainable Health Care Architecture, a resource from Robin Guenther and Gail Vittori, Co-Coordinators of the Green Guide for Health Care
- Green Guide for Health Care launches revised Operations Section (pdf)
Contact GGHC
- For general queries, email info@gghc.org
- Ms. Kumkum M. Dilwali, MS, LEED-AP
Senior Director, Green Guide for Health Care
221 Boston Rd. Suite 4, Billerica MA 01862
tel. 617-438-5635 www.gghc.org
Key Resources
- Global Lessons in Healthcare by Robin Guenther, FAIA, LEED AP and Walt Vernon, PE
- Displacement Ventilation Research Phase II Summary Report (pdf)
Healthcare Ventilation Research Collaborative, 2010 - EPRI Report: Background, Trends, Issues, and Opportunities in Healthcare (pdf)
- EPRI Report: Energy Market Profiles: Hospital Buildings, Equipment, and Energy Use (requires login)
- GGHC Resources
Imagine (pdf brochure)GGHC website and FAQGreen Guide for Health Care (pdf, requires free registration)Report: A Prescriptive Path to Energy Efficiency for Hospitals full report (pdf) abstract (pdf) - Global Lessons in Healthcare - Article by Robin Guenther, FAIA, LEED AP and Walt Vernon, PE in the Healthcare Design Magazine
- Green Building: Costs and
Financial Benefits Full report (pdf)
10-page summary (pdf)
Slide presentation (ppt) - Healthcare Energy Project Guidebook (pdf)
designed to provide decision makers with knowledge about improving energy efficiency - Practice Greenhealth and the Healthcare Clean Energy Exchange
- Securing Proven Healthcare Energy Reduction for the Ecosystem: SPHERE by Premier (pdf)
- Top 10 Green Building Myths Busted (pdf)
