Category: Key Green Solutions Customers

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.

The award was given to recognize the hospital for its ability to effectively track and quantify its many environmentally friendly initiatives through the Key Green Solutions sustainability management web-based software. The software showed, for example, how the hospital’s natural gas consumption and red bag waste was reduced by 30 percent in 2011 due to the hospital’s green initiatives.
http://www.carrollhospitalcenter.org/news/?sid=1&nid=813
Jeff Burks, Sustainability Manager with Key Green Solutions, presented with Colleen Duerr, Green Chair with Carroll Hospital Center, at the conference.  Please click on the link below for a copy of the presentation and see Session 2A: Sustainability Metrics.
http://nursing.umaryland.edu/events/environmental/2011/presentations.php

Key Green Solutions LLC, the leading hospital sustainability management software company, announces today that it has entered into an agreement with Covenant Health Systems to provide exclusive Sustainability Management Software to Covenant and the sponsor hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living residences and other health and elder services throughout New England.  The agreement represents an expansion for Key Green Solutions in the New England (Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania) market.
Nancy Mulvihill states,”Covenant knows that Key Green Solutions’ management software will help our system advance even further in our now seven-year journey in our commitment to be good stewards of the earth.  By providing  automation to our energy, water and waste data collection and analysis, dashboards, scorecards, program management tools and regulatory reporting (greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions calculation), we can achieve more and better understand areas for improvement.”

Key Green Solutions LLC, the leading hospital sustainability management software company, announces today that it has entered into an agreement with Bronson Healthcare Group to provide exclusive Sustainability Management Software to Bronson in Kalamazoo, Michigan.  The agreement represents continued expansion for Key Green Solutions in the Michigan market.
Jeff Burks, Relationship Manager for KGS, commented, “We are very pleased that Bronson has selected KGS as the provider of its sustainability management software.  Bronson is a national sustainability leader and multiple award winning organization through their successful model for growing sustainability in their facilities.  We welcome Mike Way (Vice President of Materials Management & Facilities Services), Lisa Hardesty (EOC and Sustainability Manager) and their high quality team to the KGS family and are looking forward to a mutually rewarding partnership.”

Key Green Solutions LLC, a leading hospital sustainability management software company, announces that it has entered into an agreement with University of Maryland Medical Center to provide exclusive Sustainability Management Software to UMMC in Baltimore, Maryland.
Denise Choiniere, Sustainability Manager for UMMC states, “UMMC chose to partner with KGS to help us streamline and track our sustainability goals.  KGS’s willingness to work with us to develop the best tool possible to help us move our sustainability program forward is very exciting.  Not to mention the time saved by not having to manual enter data, frees up staff to work on other projects.”

Key Green Solutions LLC, the leading hospital sustainability management software company, announces today that it has entered into an agreement with Ridgeview Medical Center to provide exclusive Sustainability Management Software to Ridgeview in Waconia, Minnesota.  The agreement represents an expansion for Key Green Solutions into the Minnesota market.
Todd Wilkening, Director of Facilities for Ridgeview states “choosing Key Green Solutions is the right choice for Ridgeview.  It contributes to our annual score card with Practice Green Health and also provides us comparables against like hospitals in terms of square footage and business units.”

Key Green Solutions LLC, the leading hospital sustainability management software company, announced today that it has expanded the partnership with Metro Health to include some of their outpatient centers.
Alison Waske, Sustainable Business Officer for Metro Health states, “At Metro Health Hospital, we believe in implementing sustainability throughout our entire system, including our neighborhood outpatient centers.  It’s easy to focus on measuring sustainability metrics at a brand new LEED certified hospital, but it is just as important to monitor sustainability as it is incorporated across all of your facilities.  Extending our partnership with Key Green Solutions beyond our hospital to our outpatient centers was an easy decision to make as we begin implementing sustainability programs at all of our neighborhood outpatient centers.”

Spectrum Health System has a nationally recognized sustainability program.  Aquinas College, the first institution in the United States to offer undergraduate degrees in sustainable business, recognizes what Spectrum has accomplished.  Click on the link to see a list of the many unique sustainability programs that have been implemented at Spectrum, including partnering with Key Green Solutions sustainability management software suite.
http://www.centerforsustainability.org/resources.php?root=176&category=294

Since the System for Change award’s program began in 2008, only 17 health care systems in the U.S. have received this award. This is a great accomplishment for Spectrum and indicates a shift towards creating a sustainability culture.
Additionally, Spectrum Health Butterworth and Blodgett Hospitals received Partner for Change with Distinction. And Spectrum Health United Hospital received Partner for Change.
Spectrum Health System utilizes Key Green Solutions software suite to manage their sustainability program.

This is the third year in a row that Metro Health has received this award.  The Environmental Leadership Circle is the premier award recognizing health care facilities that exemplify environmental excellence and are setting the highest standards for environmental practices in health care. To be considered, facilities must meet the criteria for the mercury-free award, recycle at least 25 percent of their total waste, have implemented numerous other innovative pollution prevention programs, and be leaders in their community. 
Metro Health Hospital utilizes Key Green Solutions software suite to manage their sustainability program.