Category: Key Green Solutions Customers

VA Palo Alto Healthcare System has been honored with the “Sustainability Tracking Award for a Medium Hospital” for 2016 from Key Green Solutions, the leading sustainability management software company. The award recognizes VA Palo Alto Healthcare System as the best performing medium (100-499 beds) hospital that is successfully measuring, setting system goals, benchmarking, and creating a culture of sustainability. VA Palo Alto Healthcare System stands out with their strong commitment to energy and waste. They achieved top 25% highest recycling at over 60% diversion, top 25% lowest in water, and top 25% lowest RMW.

The Key Green Solutions Sustainability Tracking Awards were presented in Minneapolis, MN at the Key Green Solutions reception on May 16, 2017

Hackensack University Medical Center has been honored with the “Sustainability Tracking Award for a Large Hospital” for 2016 from Key Green Solutions, the leading sustainability management software company. The award recognizes Hackensack as the best performing large (500-1,000 bed) hospital that is successfully measuring, setting system goals, benchmarking, and creating a culture of sustainability. Hackensack stands out with their strong commitment to energy, waste, food, and purchasing. They achieved top 25% highest recycling, top 25% lowest in water, top 25% lowest RMW, sustainable/local food purchases over 19%, over 60% of meat and poultry purchases are raised without the routine use of antibiotics, green cleaning purchases account for over 60% or their cleaning purchases, and healthy beverages account for over 65% of overall beverages.
The Key Green Solutions Sustainability Tracking Awards were presented in Minneapolis, MN at the Key Green Solutions reception on May 16, 2017

Key Green Solutions, the leading hospital sustainability management software company, announces today that it has entered into an agreement with Dignity Health to provide exclusive sustainability management software for their 37 hospitals and other offsite facilities. The agreement represents an expansion for Key Green Solutions in the west.

“Dignity Health is very excited about our partnership with Key Green Solutions sustainability software. Our management is able to review and compare facility energy, water, waste usage/volumes and local/sustainable food purchases across the system (37 hospitals and other locations) and facilitate development of reports and applications for awards. We are able to measure our progress in meeting our goals and objectives, as well as see where we can do better and determine changes that need to be made. When we combine our great sustainability initiatives and the comprehensive web-based Key Green dashboard, the opportunities to grow as a health system are limitless.” Sister Mary Ellen Leciejewski, Director of Ecology, Dignity Health

Jeff Burks, Relationship Manager for Key Green Solutions, commented, “We are very pleased that Dignity Health has selected Key Green Solutions as the provider of its sustainability management software. We welcome Sister Susan Vickers (Vice President of Community Health), Sister Mary Ellen and David Jones (System Director, Energy & Facility Services Corporate Real Estate) and their high quality Dignity team to the Key Green Solutions family and are looking forward to a mutually rewarding partnership.”

Hackensack University Medical Center has been honored with the “Sustainability Tracking Award for a Large Hospital” for 2015 from Key Green Solutions, the leading sustainability management software company. The award recognizes Hackensack as the best performing large (500-1,000 bed) hospital that is successfully measuring, setting system goals, benchmarking, and creating and culture of sustainability. Hackensack stands out with their strong commitment to energy, waste, food, and purchasing. They achieved top 25% highest recycling, top 25% lowest in water, top 25% lowest RMW, sustainable/local food purchases over 5%, and healthy beverages account for over 55% of overall beverages.
The Key Green Solutions Sustainability Tracking Awards were presented in Dallas, Texas at the Key Green Solutions reception on May 17, 2016.

University Hospital’s Bedford Hospital has been honored with the “Sustainability Tracking Award for a Medium Hospital” for 2015 from Key Green Solutions, the leading sustainability management software company. This award recognized Bedford Hospital as the best performing medium (100-499 bed) hospital that is successfully measuring, setting system goals, benchmarking, and creating a culture of sustainability. Bedford Hospital achieved top 25% lowest RMW, top 25% recycling, sustainable/local food purchases over 5%, and healthy beverages account for over 55% of overall beverages.
The Key Green Solutions Sustainability Tracking Awards were presented in Dallas, Texas at the Key Green Solutions reception on May 17, 2016.

Banner Health’s Ironwood Hospital has been honored with the “Sustainability Tracking Award for a Small Hospital” for 2015 from Key Green Solutions, the leading hospital sustainability management software company. This award recognizes Ironwood Hospital as the best performing small (0-99 bed) hospital that is successfully measuring, setting system goals, benchmarking, and creating a culture of sustainability. Ironwood stands out with their commitment to energy efficiency. They achieved the top 25% in lowest energy consumption and water consumption.

“Banner Health is engaged in a collaborative partnership with Key Green Solutions. We are excited that this comprehensive web-based, automated software influences and enhances Banner’s sustainability goals and initiatives. We utilize the software across our health system which is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ and operates more than 25 hospitals and other related health entities and services in seven states.” Sean Greer, Facility Services Director, Banner Health

The Key Green Solutions Sustainability Tracking Awards were presented in Dallas, Texas at the Key Green Solutions reception on May 17, 2016

TriHealth Hospital has been honored with the “Emerging User Award” for 2015 from Key Green Solutions, the leading sustainability management software company. The award recognized TriHealth for their engagement and commitment to improving sustainability and growing the sustainability culture at their organization.

“TriHealth continually strives to be good stewards of our resources through sustainability endeavors that contribute to both healthy people and a healthy planet. Tracking and understanding our data is key to making positive changes and seeing our progress.” Katie Schneider, TriHealth Sustainability Consultant

The Key Green Solutions Sustainability Tracking Awards were presented in Dallas, Texas at the Key Green Solutions reception on May 17, 2016.

Barbara Hamilton, System Sustainability Manager at Palomar Health, states “when I was
looking at the data in the Key Green Solutions dashboard, I noticed that our Palomar
Downtown campus was paying twice as much per ton as the other two campuses for
municipal solid waste, (regular trash). Upon closer inspection, and because all the information is in the same place and easy to compare, I noticed that the waste compactor at Palomar Downtown campus was being picked up for disposal 3 times per week, and it only needed to be picked up one time per week.  Apparently the schedule had never been changed after the move to Palomar Medical Center. By catching this in the software and reducing that service, we are now saving over $20,000 per year. We made a similar adjustment at Palomar Medical Center and reduced service by one day and are saving an additional $10,000 at that campus.”
Key Green Solutions is the leading international provider of a sustainability management software suite for healthcare.  Key Green is benchmarking and standardizing energy, water, waste, food and environmentally preferred purchasing data for hospitals and
helping in their quest for increasing efficiency and managing costs as they deliver care in their facilities.  The software has interfaces to load the vendor’s electronic data, instead of
manually collecting the data in spreadsheets.

Key Green Solutions LLC, the leading hospital sustainability management software company, announces today that it has entered into an agreement with Saint Joseph Hospital, a member of Presence Health, to provide exclusive sustainability management
software for their hospitals.  The agreement represents an expansion for Key Green Solutions in the state of Illinois.
Jeff Burks, Relationship Manager for Key Green Solutions, commented, “We are very pleased that Saint Joseph Hospital has selected Key Green Solutions as the provider of its
sustainability management software.  We welcome Larry Dry (Vice President, Strategy and Operations), Julie Antioho (Director of Perioperative Services), Al Jensen (AVP, Facilities Management) and their high quality team to the Key Green Solutions family and are looking forward to a mutually rewarding partnership.”