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Sustainable Food Practices: Track Your Food Data!

One of the modules we at Key Green Solutions track is food! Food has a great impact on the environment; what we put in our cafeterias can either negatively or positively affect your immediate community. With our module, we can automatically input the items your vendors provide to you along with costs. You can take an even deeper look and track how many sustainable foods you are purchasing, and how much of your cafeteria is made up of foods purchased from local vendors.

Track and measure the food and beverages purchased to establish a baseline, set goals, and track your progress. The food module provides robust metrics and food data collection that is essential for making healthy food purchasing changes. We track:

• Less Meat, Better Meat (reduced meat purchases)

• Healthier beverages

• Local and sustainable food purchasing

• Cool Food Pledge

• Practice Greenhealth

• Partnership for Healthier America

• Prime

Additionally, we can customize the criteria to meet the needs of your specific organization!

All Your Energy Data at the Touch of Your Fingertips!

At Key Green Solutions, one of the modules we offer for tracking is Energy & Water. We are able to obtain data directly from your vendors, making the process easy for your employees. Simply log in and have a comprehensive view of all your data.

Track energy sources by meter (consumption and supply) costs in one place:

Electricity (Grid, Hydroelectric, Wind, Solar, Biomass, Cogeneration)
- Heating (Natural Gas, Steam, Propane, Fuel, Cogeneration)
- Water (Potable water, Sewage, Irrigation, Make-Up, and Storm water)
- Chilled Water
- Hot Water

We normalize the energy data to account for changes in:

Weather (heating and cooling degree days)
- Square footage
- Billing cycle days / Calendar month days
- Rates

We are able to help you look at meter usage, and can point out any problems that may be costing your organization money in the long run.

Our enterprise level sustainability tools will help your organization develop systematic solutions!

Track Your Waste with Key Green Solutions!

At Key Green Solutions we offer different modules for tracking data at your facility. One of the modules we track is waste! Customers can log in and run reports for all facilities in their system, and even get automatically formulated graphs that are easily exported for presentation purposes.

With our waste module you can: Analyze waste generation, see landfill avoidance savings, view recycling volumes, and look at cost trends over time using benchmarks and performance reports for each facility.

Track all of the following in one portal:

Municipal Solid Waste (Compactors, Front Load, etc.)
- Regulated Medical Waste (Red Bag, Yellow Bag, Chemo, Sharps, etc.)
- Pharmaceutical Waste (RCRA, Non-RCRA, Controlled Substance)
- Hazardous Waste (Aerosols, Xylene, Flammable Liquids, Labpacks, etc.)
- Recycling (Compost, Shredding, Cardboard, Single Stream, Blue Wrap, etc.)
- Universal (Electronics, Batteries, Lamps, etc.)
- Reuse (Donations, Reprocessed Devices (SUD), Pallets, Linens, etc.)
- Construction and Demolition (Solid Waste, Recycling, Concrete, Asbestos, etc.)

Our enterprise level sustainability tools will help your organization develop systematic solutions!

Dominican Hospital, Dignity Health: Outstanding Environmental Work

Today, two days after Earth Day, we reflect on all the outstanding work of one of our customers, Dominican Hospital of Dignity Health. In 2019, Dominican Hospital made a huge sustainability impact through recycling, diversion, and reprocessing!

Despite the current global crisis, this week we celebrate all the work our customers are doing to better the environment–starting with their own communities– with their sustainability efforts. We are honored to assist our customers in attaining these sustainability goals and practices through data tracking; having a grip on your own data helps bring about positive, long term changes!

Key Green’s Investment in Technology

One superior aspect to using Key Green Solutions as a data tracking software is its easy accessibility– using the dashboard and reporting. Any user can log on at any time to run reports at the push of a button—and we work to make this experience easy!

This week Key Green Solutions increased our server connection speed, doubling an already fast connection. Key Green continues to invest in technology that makes your experience hassle-free, providing the fastest connections and best technology for our customers. As always, this upgrade came at no extra cost for our users. Our hope is to continue improving customer experience; feel free to reach out to your relationship coordinator at any time with personalization requests for your dashboard!

COVID-19 — What Does it Mean for Key Green?

The coronavirus and the disease COVID-19 has been sweeping through the world, causing stress amongst healthcare systems and work facilities alike. What does this mean for service at Key Green Solutions?

Your team members Key Green Solutions continue to work diligently to ensure you have access to the most accurate and updated report.
As a Software As A Service (SAAS) company, we are inherently able to provide our employees “Social Distancing” allowing them to work from home and for you our users to access this data and reporting remotely.
Our close-knit staff members are well prepared to work from home and are able to service our customers like any other given day. One hiccup that may come is data delay—this would be due to slower responses on the end of our customers’ vendors, who are mostly working from home during this stressful time. From our end, however, our software will continue to function as it usually does—don’t hesitate to reach out with any additional data work you need done!

Practice Green Health, 2019 Data

Another year of assisting health systems with Practice Green Health awards has come to a close!

Key Green Solutions has been helping upload data to the Practice Green Health award application for years. This year, we were able to help 13 healthcare systems: Bronson, Dignity, Harvard’s Beth Israel Deaconess, Hackensack, Johns Hopkins, Montefiore, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Sutter, Seattle Children’s, Stanford, University of California, Veterans Affairs, and Valley Health.

Key Green Solutions is a great tool to use for applications such as Practice Green Health and the Cool Food Pledge. When you don’t have time to put together all the numbers, we step in and do it for you. We are happy to help make a time-consuming task much more manageable, and look forward to working with more healthcare– and beyond– systems in the future!

To learn more about how we can help your organization improve your sustainability initiatives and enhance your bottom line contact us at sales@keygreensolutions.com to schedule a free online software demonstration.

Key Green Solutions a Silver Friend of the 2019 CHA Assembly

Key Green Solutions was honored to be a Silver Sponsor Friend of the CHA Assembly in Dallas, TX. This was our third year as a sponsor, and it was a great experience.

Key Green Solutions with our customer CommonSpirit Health on June 10, 2019

As a sponsor, we were able to meet many great members and share our software solution designed for healthcare. Our modular based software is the leading sustainability data solution for healthcare. The modules include:

• Waste

• Energy/Water

• Food

• Purchasing

Our solution automates your data collection process to all your vendors, eliminates paper, and allows you to benchmark your facilities internally or to national Key Green benchmarks.

Key Green Successfully Uploads Data to Practice Greenhealth Award Application

Another Successful Year!

Key Green Solutions has not only done it again, but we have done it bigger and better than last year. This year we automatically uploaded data into the Practice Greenhealth Partner for Change Award Application for 74 hospitals. We scrubbed through 774,834 data records to answer 4,000 questions in the Award Application. It took 5 minutes.

How? One word; Automatic. Key Green Solutions is the Gold Standard for data. We collect data directly from the vendors and upload it into our software. We receive this data monthly from the vendors and keep our Dashboard up to date, allowing hospitals to view the most accurate and current data. Our team reviews the data and clarifies any discrepancies with the vendors. This is how we export data into the PGH Award Application, all it takes is one click.

Other data upload statistics include:

• Reported over $200 million in energy costs

• Reported over 56 million pounds of recycling – our users averaged 45% recycling rate

• Reported over 1.5 million pounds of sustainable meats purchased – our users averaged 28% sustainable meat

• Reported over $4 million in local food purchases

• Reported over $9.5 million in sustainable food purchases

Key Green Solutions doesn’t just help hospitals save time and money, we help those hospitals set the standard, the standard of excellence. We would like to thank all the hospitals that relied on our team to help complete the Practice Greenhealth Award Application. It was our pleasure serving you and we look forward to next year’s upload.

University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center has been honored with the “Sustainability Tracking Award for a Large Hospital” for 2017 from Key Green Solutions

Cleveland Medical Center has been honored with the “Sustainability Tracking Award for a Large Hospital” for 2017 from Key Green Solutions, the leading sustainability management software company. The award recognizes Cleveland Medical Center as the best performing large (>500 beds) hospital that is successfully measuring, setting system goals, benchmarking, and creating a culture of sustainability. Cleveland Medical Center stands out with their strong commitment to energy, waste, food, and purchasing. They achieved top 25% highest recycling, top 25% lowest in water, and top 25% lowest RMW. They were the highest performer in the following categories; Local/sustainable Food, Healthy Beverages, and Green Cleaning purchases.

The Key Green Solutions Sustainability Tracking Awards were presented in San Diego, CA at the Key Green Solutions reception on May 7, 2018