Public Health

Johns Hopkins Howard County General Hospital (Columbia, Md.).The Medical Pavilion at Johns Hopkins Howard County General Hospital is a LEED-Silver certified facility, and it is the largest LEED-certified medical building in the central Maryland area. Some of the environmentally friendly…

Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore). The list of eco-friendly improvements Johns Hopkins Hospital has made in recent years is lengthy. The hospital converted to LED lighting in 33 of its operating rooms, installed 65,000 square feet of green roofing, sold 2,000…

Inova Fairfax Hospital (Falls Church, Va.). The medical and surgical tower built on Inova Fairfax Hospital’s campus in 2013 was the first building in Inova’s history to be designed and constructed based on LEED criteria established by the USGBC. The…

Hoag Hospital-Newport Beach (Calif.). Hoag Hospital Newport Beach is an acute care, nonprofit hospital located on California’s Orange County coastline between Los Angeles and San Diego. The 50,000-square-foot Joan & Andy Fimiano Emergency Pavilion at Hoag Hospital Newport Beach is…

Hoag Hospital-Irvine (Calif.). Hoag Hospital-Irvine opened in 2010 and became one of the first hospitals in California to achieve LEED Silver certification the same year. To reduce the hospital’s environmental footprint, the facility features energy-efficient lighting fixtures, low-flow toilets, forest-certified…

Harborview Medical Center (Seattle). Since creating its Environmental Sustainability Steering Committee in 2010, Harborview Medical Center has increased its recycling, reduced its regulated medical waste, cut its greenhouse gas emissions, added bike racks and garden spaces and committed to all…

Hackensack (N.J.) University Medical Center. Over the past few years, HackensackUMC has transitioned to LED lighting, replaced its chillers with new energy-efficient models and used a biodigester to divert roughly 250,000 pounds of food from landfills. HackensackUMC also reduced its…

Gundersen Health System (La Crosse, Wis.). In 2008, Gundersen began making efforts toward improving efficiency and developing regional partnerships to produce renewable energy. By 2014, Gundersen became the first hospital system in the nation to achieve energy independence by producing…

Visits to the emergency department for dental issues have doubled from 1.1 million in 2000 to 2.2 million in 2012, according to data analyzed by the American Dental Association and featured in the USA Today.

The Center for Prevention at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota has launched an initiative to make neighborhoods more amendable to walking, biking and other forms of physical activity.