The Key Green Solutions Sustainability Management Excellence Awards were presented in Denver, CO, at the Key Green Solutions reception on May 1, 2012.
Palomar Health has been honored with a “Sustainability Management Excellence” Award 2012 from Key Green Solutions. The Management Excellence Award recognizes health systems that are successfully measuring, setting system goals, benchmarking, and creating a culture of sustainability.
“This award demonstrates Palomar Health’s commitment to their patients and community
through their system-wide sustainability initiatives” said Jeff Burks, Relationship
Manager of Key Green Solutions. “Ms. Barbara Hamilton and her leadership team have taken sustainability in healthcare to the next level as one of the nations leader’s in sustainability.”
Author: jburks@keygreensolutions.com
Key Green Solutions, the leading hospital sustainability management software company recognizes 4 hospitals – University of Maryland Medical Center
The Key Green Solutions Sustainability Management Excellence Awards were presented in Denver, CO, at the Key Green Solutions reception on May 1, 2012.
University of Maryland Medical Center has been honored with a “Sustainability Management Excellence” Award 2012 from Key Green Solutions. The Management Excellence Award recognizes health systems that are successfully measuring, setting system goals, benchmarking, and creating a culture of sustainability.
“This award demonstrates University of Maryland Medical Center’s commitment to their
patients and community through their system-wide sustainability initiatives” said Jeff Burks, Relationship Manager of Key Green Solutions. “Ms. Denise Choiniere and her leadership team have developed UMMC into one of the nation’s premier healthcare organizations in sustainability”.
Key Green Solutions, the leading hospital sustainability management software company recognizes 4 hospitals – Metro Health
The Key Green Solutions Sustainability Management Excellence Awards were presented in Denver, CO, at the Key Green Solutions reception on May 1, 2012.
Metro Health has been honored with a “Sustainability Management Excellence” Award 2012 from Key Green Solutions. The Management Excellence Award recognizes health systems that are successfully measuring, setting system goals, benchmarking, and creating a culture of sustainability.
“This award demonstrates Metro Health’s commitment to their patients and community through their system-wide sustainability initiatives” said Jeff Burks, Relationship
Manager of Key Green Solutions. “Mr. Bob Vanrees, Ms. Alison Waske, and their leadership team have become one of the nation’s trendsetters in healthcare sustainability.”
Key Green Solutions is exhibiting at CleanMed 2012 (Denver, CO)
The CleanMed Exhibits and Exposition will showcase suppliers and service providers that offer sustainable products and services to the health care sector. Key Green Solutions will participate in the Exhibits and Exposition. Please visit us at Booth #422.
CleanMed education sessions feature topics such as sustainable design, green building, energy and water conservation, chemical reduction, environmentally preferable purchasing, incorporating sustainability into corporate culture, and other topics of importance to health care building and operations. Most of these sessions carry CEUs for multiple disciplines. CleanMed is one of the most affordable conferences offered to health care.
Key Green Solutions customers find it easier to apply for the 2012 Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellence Awards
It can be a challenge to find data for electricity, natural gas, water, recycling, hazardous, regulated medical waste, solid waste, pharmaceuticals and universal waste. Now with Key Green Solutions sustainability management software, it is easy. Many of the Key Green Solutions customers are applying for the nationally recognized Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellence Awards. This awards application is the roadmap for how to strategically “go green” at your hospital.
Denise Choiniere, MS, RN, sustainability manager for University of Maryland Medical Center says, “got to tell you…your system is AWESOME for pulling data! This will not be nearly as painful as last year!”
Bob Demers, with St. Joseph Hospital (Covenant Health Systems) says, ”I used the software to pull my energy numbers for the awards application and it worked great!”
Alison Waske, Sustainable Business Officer with Metro Health says, “we used KGS to help identify the total amount and cost of many different waste streams needed to complete the Practice Greenhealth award application.”
Health care providers work to stream line energy, waste and water data with Key Green Solutions software
Key Green Solutions Key Green Solutions LLC, a Grand Rapids, MI-based sustainability software developer, is helping local and out-of-state health care systems manage their multitudes of data in a single, consolidated web-based program. With an emphasis on energy use and waste, as well as ease of user management, Key Green’s product is expected to increase efficiency and bring to light cost issues specific to hospitals.
Key Green currently has contracts with organizations in 10 states. Users manage approximately 20 million square feet spread across 50 different facilities.
Click the link below to gain additional insight into the technology that is streamlining sustainability data for health care:
http://www.mibiz.com/news/healthcare/19305-sustainability-efficiency-programs-health-care-providers-work-to-streamline-energy-utilities-data-with-software.html
Spectrum Health, a VHA member, successfully uses Key Green Solutions software to effectively track their nationally recognized sustainability program.
Whether its dashboards, scorecards, benchmarking or green house gas emissions, the sustainability leadership team at Spectrum Health views their all their hospitals using the Key Green Solutions Key Green Solutions LLC comprehensive sustainability management software.
Please click on the link to see the article found on VHA Alliance.
http://allianceonline.vha.com/feature/giving-back-to-the-environment
Key Green Solutions LLC becomes a Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce member
Key Green Solutions is excited about joining the Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce. The rapidly expanding organization views Chamber membership as a tool to increase their visibility in the business community. According to Jeff Burks, Relationship Manager of Key Green Solutions, “We became a Chamber member to increase our presence in the marketplace.”
http://www.grandrapids.org/member-spotlight
On November 10, 2011, the University of Maryland Medical Center and Denise Choiniere, sustainability manager, are winners of Maryland Hospitals for Healthy Environment (MD H2E) awards.
The first annual Nursing Leadership in Environmental Health Award was presented to Denise Choiniere, MS, RN, sustainability manager for University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC). Choiniere, the first full-time sustainability manager in a Maryland hospital, spearheaded a number of environmental initiatives at UMMC, including a hazardous pharmaceutical waste management program, Earth Day events, and a weekly farmers’ market.
UMMC won the Trailblazer award for focusing on lighting conservation and upgrades in the past year. The goals of their project included turning off lights when not in use and when daylight is sufficient in atriums and hallways, replace inefficient light bulbs with more efficient bulbs, and establish a baseline to monitor changes. Occupancy sensors and photo cell sensors were installed and lights in mechanical rooms were placed on automated controls.
Denise and her leadership team utilizes Key Green Solutions software suite to manage their sustainability program.
Key Green Solutions (KGS) exhibited at the Maryland Hospitals for Healthy Environment (MD H2E) conference on November 10, 2011.
MD H2E is a technical assistance and networking initiative that promotes environmental sustainability in health care. Participants include hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, research laboratories, and other ancillary health care providers in Maryland. Key Green Solutions LLC, the leading hospital sustainability management software company, is proud to be a partner with Carroll Hospital Center and University of Maryland Medical Center, two award winning hospitals with MD H2E.