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HCWH launches 2011 Healthy Food in Health Care Survey & Awards Program
Reston, VA — Health Care Without Harm launches the 2011 Healthy Food in Health Care Annual Survey & Awards Program to recognize excellence in sustainable food services at health care institutions across the country. The goals of the award program are to recognize significant achievement as well as leadership; spur competition to achieve measurable, lasting results; encourage continuous improvement, with an emphasis on quantitative versus qualitative results; and benchmark progress in sustainable operations in health care food service.
Award Categories:
- Sustainable Food Procurement
- Public Policy
- Food Climate Health Connection
- Clinical Engagement
All facilities engaged in improving their food service in alignment with HFHC are encouraged to complete the Annual Survey. Health care facilities that have signed the Healthy Food in Health Care Pledge OR otherwise meet minimum eligibility criteria may use the Survey to Apply for the HFHC Awards.
To learn more, download the HFHC Survey & Awards flyer.
Survey and Award Application: Due by midnight, June 30, 2011
Complete the Survey/Awards Application.
For more information contact: hfhcsurveyinfo@hcwh.org.
Heath Care without Harm, an international coalition of more than 500 organizations in 53 countries, is working to transform the health care sector, without compromising patient safety or care, so that it is ecologically sustainable and no longer a source of harm to public health and the environment. To learn more about HCWH's work, visit our website at www.noharm.org, our YouTube channel at HCwithoutharm, and our twitter feed at hcwithoutharm.
Webinar: How Sustainable Hospitals Are Achieving Major Savings
Health Care Without Harm and The Commonwealth Fund present a webinar based on the recent groundbreaking findings on how hospitals can achieve savings and reduce their carbon footprint through sustainability programs. This one-hour webinar draws on the findings of a recent Health Care Without Harm Research Collaborative/ Commonwealth Fund study, "Can Sustainable Hospitals Help Bend the Health Care Cost Curve?" which shows that savings from interventions to reduce energy use and waste, and achieve operating room supply efficiencies could exceed $5.4 billion over five years and $15 billion over 10 years for the health care sector. In addition to detailing the study findings, the webinar includes presentations from two health systems about why they chose to focus on sustainability and what challenges and rewards are in store.
Key Resources
- Energy Impact Calculator
What are your facility's energy health impacts and costs? What can you do to improve them?
- Learn about Practice Greenhealth and the Healthcare Clean Energy Exchange
- Green Guide for Health Care Report:
A Prescriptive Path to Energy Efficiency for Hospitals
download report (pdf) read abstract (pdf) - Healthcare Energy Project Guidebook, designed to provide decision makers with knowledge about improving energy efficiency (pdf)
