Public Health

Kaiser Permanente Westside Medical Center (Hillsboro, Ore.). Westside Medical Center — which opened in August 2013 — is Kaiser Permanente’s 38th hospital, but it’s the first hospital in the system to earn LEED Gold certification. It is one of fewer…

Kaiser Permanente San Jose (Calif.) Medical Center. Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center is a 242-bed hospital that participates in all six HHI Challenges and was given the Healthy Food Circle of Excellence Award by Practice Greenhealth in 2015. The…

Johns Hopkins Sibley Memorial Hospital (Washington, D.C.). Sibley Memorial is a nonprofit, full-service, 318-bed community hospital that has served Northwest Washington, D.C., since it was founded in 1890. Today, Sibley Memorial Hospital strives to improving environmental health and sustainability by…

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…