VA Portland Healthcare System (Ore.). The VA Portland Health Care System, or VAPORHCS, is a 277-bed facility that serves more than 85,000 veterans each year in Oregon and Southwest Washington. VAPORHCS has many programs in place to prevent pollution, reduce…
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University of Washington Medical Center (Seattle). In 2015, the University of Washington Medical Center became a two-time Practice Greenhealth Top 25 Environmental Excellence Award honoree as well as the recipient of three Circle of Excellence Awards for its chemical reduction…
University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers (Ann Arbor). U-M Hospitals and Health Centers has become an industry leader in various green initiatives, including energy conservation, green purchasing, recycling and waste management, and green building. UMHHC recently pledged to meet…
University of Maryland Medical Center (Baltimore). Sustainability is a major focus of the University of Maryland Medical Center. UMMC is currently striving to meet the USGBC’s LEED certification standards for two construction and renovation projects — its Shock Trauma Critical…
University of Colorado Health-Medical Center of the Rockies (Loveland). In 2009, the Medical Center of the Rookies was awarded a LEED Gold certification, making it, at the time, the largest hospital in the country to earn the designation. The medical…
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UH-Ahuja Medical Center (Beachwood, Ohio). University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center was designed to integrate nature and improve sustainability. The campus features an abundance of native plants that collect water runoff and reduce water consumption, and the hospital’s light-colored roofing reflects…
UCSF Medical Center/UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital (San Francisco). Over the years, UCSF has implemented mercury-elimination policies, developed recycling and waste-reduction programs, and committed to building all new campus construction projects to at least the USGBC’s LEED Silver standard. In 2015,…
The University of Vermont Medical Center (Burlington). The University of Vermont Medical Center strives to be the greenest healthcare organization in the U.S., and its sustained efforts to reduce energy consumption, waste stream and carbon footprint, as well as increase…
Spectrum Health Blodgett Hospital (Grand Rapids, Mich.). Spectrum Health Blodgett Hospital was one of 10 hospitals in the United States to receive Practice Greenhealth’s Leadership Circle of Excellence Award in 2015. Sustainability programs and steps that helped the facility become…
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Boston. Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Boston is one of the largest inpatient rehabilitation facilities in the country and the official teaching hospital of the Harvard Medical School Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. When the hospital was built,…