GreenCorner® case studies
Success stories on green purchasing, products, and healthcare practices
The GreenCorner Web site is dedicated to showcasing success stories in the area of environmental or "green" initiatives or programs that contribute to a safer and healthier environment, with particular emphasis on Premier members in collaboration with contracted suppliers. Guidelines for submission of success stories
Read success stories on the following topics:
Note: All files less than 2MG unless indicated.
Updated: October 28, 2011
- Computers-electronics
- Construction: green, evidence based, LEED
- Donation - Medical Supplies-Equipment
- Energy efficiency
- Energy procurement
- Energy Star winners
- Environmental purchasing
- Environment of care
- Food
- Indoor air pollution
- Leadership - corporate
- LEED, Green Globes – Building Sustainability
- Reducing carbon footprint
- Recycling and waste reduction
- Toxic chemicals
- Water Conservation
Computers-electronics
- Beth Israel Deaconess turns e-waste into dollars
- Aurora Health Care’s Asset Recovery program generates dollars, finds home for used equipment
- Premier recycles 3 tons corporate IT equipment
- Saint Francis Care, Hartford, CT e-waste initiatives
- Thomas Jefferson University Hospital safely disposes old computers
Construction: green, evidence based
- Emory & Univ. of Florida - Sustainable flooring
- Lexington Medical Center builds SC's first “green certified” medical complex
- PeaceHealth's Sacred Heart Medical Center 'healthy by design'
- Sumner Regional Medical Center adds ‘green’ touch to new tower
- SSM St. Clare Health Center plans “green roof”
Donation - Medical Supplies-Equipment
- Aurora Health Care’s Asset Recovery program generates dollars, finds home for used equipment
- Global Links partners with hospitals including UPMC to direct surplus supplies overseas
- St. John’s Riverside donates unused medical supplies, equipment
Energy efficiency
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Bon Secours St. Francis Health System notches big energy savings - CHW’s environmental vision powers successful energy conservation - healthy building initiative
- Covenant Health Systems first participant in SPHERE Reverse Auction
- EASI helps Medical Office Building reduce electrical energy costs by 13 percent annually
- Emory & Univ. of Florida - Lighting efficiency
- Emory & Univ. of Florida - integrated design & HVAC Systems
- Geisinger Health System saves $6.3 million annually with energy efficient practices
- Gunderson Lutheran Health System goal - energy neutral by 2014
- Ingalls Heath System achieves green energy savings with SPHERE Reverse Auction
- Premier white paper: Leading your healthcare organization toward energy efficiency: A call to action.
- Lighting retrofit nets Resurrection’s savings with GE, Acuity and local utility
- Medline energy conservation efforts
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital’s energy efforts net national acclaim, bottom-line savings
- PeaceHealth implements a Strategic Energy Mgmt Plan (SEMP)
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PeaceHealth commits to energy efficiency through SEMP
from BetterBricks at www.betterbricks.com - Saint Francis Care, Hartford, CT saves on energy efficient programs
- Saint Joseph-Mercy slashes energy costs in midst of building boom
- Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital energy conservation plan
- Steelcase ‘wind farm’ makes it largest buyer of wind power in furniture industry
- Tandus renewable energy source
- Thomas Jefferson cuts lighting energy use with Encelium
- Tri-City implements energy efficient equipment and processes
Energy procurement
- Alexian Brothers Health system goes green, saves big
- Covenant Health System (ME, MA) saves $1.6 million
- Excellus BlueCross BlueShield saves $450,000 on electric power through Premier’s SPHERE Web-based reverse auction program
- Ingalls Health System (IL) saves $800,000
- St Lukes (PA) saves $1 million – including renewable
Energy Star winners
- Saint Francis Care, Hartford, CT earns second energy star designation
- SSM St Francis Hospital, Maryville MO earns energy recognition from ASHE and EPA
- St Francis Hospital, Maryville MO earns energy recognition from ASHE and EPA
- St. Joseph hospital achieves energy star
Environmental purchasing
Environment of Care
- Heartland Regional Medical Center reduces O2 tanks
-
St Joseph
and Orkin partner for environmentally friendly pest control
Food
- Aurora Health Care is greening its foodservice operations
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Community garden, education nets healthy food success for
Bon Secours St. Francis - Overlake Hospital Medical Center takes holistic healthy food approach
- Thomas Jefferson University Hospital grows health food program
- Employee vegetable garden among Fairview Hospital's healthy food initiatives
- Avera Heart Hospital’s food program on the inside and out
- Catholic Healthcare West commits to healthy foods
- Children's Hospital (Seattle) launches model food recycling program
- Covenant Health Systems' plan drives healthy food choices
- Healthy foods and healthy environment at Baptist Hospital of Miami
- Premier's healthy food initiatives
- Stonyfield Farm promotes healthy food programs
- Texas Health Resources eliminating trans fats
Additional food service resource
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Healthy Food in Health Care
A 2008 Survey of Healthy Food in Health Care Pledge Hospitals
Indoor air pollution
- Beth Israel Deaconess air quality efforts
- Emory, Univ. of Florida, Kaiser Permanente and Discovery Health Center - Indoor air quality: Materials selection
- St. Elizabeth Hospital, Covington, KY, goes EtO-free
Leadership - corporate
- AstraZeneca delivers on corporate sustainability
- Catholic Healthcare West “green” successes highlighted in 2008 annual report
- Cleveland Clinic’s Environmental Stewardship program
- Covenant Health Systems on environmental stewardship fast track
- Geisinger Health System "painted" in LEED gold and silver
- Harris Methodist showcases "green" efforts with video
- Hospital Systems earns ‘Green Business’ certification
- LEED-EB Project Case Study: JohnsonDiversey Headquarters
- Kimberly-Clark sustainability report, 2007
LEED, Green Globes – Building Sustainability
- Geisinger Health System "painted" in LEED gold and silver
- LEED-EB Project Case Study: JohnsonDiversey Headquarters
- Case Study: Portland VA Medical Center achieves three Green Globes
Reducing carbon footprint
Recycling and waste reduction
- Albany Medical Center saves $1.7 million recycling lab chemical waste
- Avera Heart Hospital’s food program on the inside and out
- Beth Israel Deaconess recycling program
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Bon Secours recycling, waste reduction efforts yield rapid success
- Blue wrap recycling pilot project at Harbor Hospital in Baltimore
- Carolinas HealthCare System reduces waste with Ansell’s new packaging
- Chelsea Community Hospital, Wieland partner in furniture reuse
- Children's Hospital (Seattle) launches model food recycling program
- Coral Springs Medical Center program cuts hazardous waste in half
- Covenant Health Systems earns praise for waste reduction efforts
- Dartmouth Hitchcock on-site autoclave saves $250,000
- Fairview reduces operating room waste
- Harris Methodist lauded for pollution prevention
- Healthy foods and healthy environment at Baptist Hospital of Miami
- Lexington Medical goes green with recycled paper while decreasing costs
- Methodist Medical Center and reusable sharps containers
- North Broward Hospital District's award for "green" efforts in clinics and MD offices
- Oregon hospitals recycle bulbs
- St. John’s Riverside Hospital honored for environmental achievements
- St. John’s Riverside donates unused medical supplies, equipment
- Sparrow Health System's recycling program
- St. Elizabeth Medical Center sets new recycling benchmarks
- SSM Health Care bans plastic water bottles
- Tandus cites Cleveland Clinic for recycling efforts
- Western Maryland nets big savings by compacting waste
Toxic chemicals
- Baystate Health System turns to safer, cost-effective pest control
- Ridgeview
Medical Center benefits from water system improvements
Water Conservation