Key Green Solutions LLC (KGS) welcomes North Memorial Medical Center as a customer.

Key Green Solutions LLC, the leading hospital sustainability management software company, announces today that it has entered into an agreement with North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale, MN to provide exclusive Sustainability Management Software.  The agreement represents continued expansion for Key Green Solutions in the Minnesota market.
Bob Johnson, Director of Engineering Services for North Memorial
states, “North Memorial is partnering with KGS because their web-based, automated software provides timely energy consumption, waste and benchmarking reports.  This information will assist us in identifying “best practice” and establishing performance goals.”
Jeff Burks, Relationship Manager for KGS, commented, “We are very pleased that North Memorial Medical Center has selected KGS as the provider of its sustainability management software.  We welcome Bob Johnson, Tracy Brevig (Data Management Specialist) and their high quality team to the KGS family and are looking forward to a mutually rewarding partnership.”

Key Green Solutions LLC (KGS) welcomes Anne Arundel Medical Center as a customer.

Key Green Solutions LLC, the leading hospital sustainability management software company, announces today that it has entered into an agreement with Anne Arundel Health System in Annapolis, Maryland, to provide exclusive sustainability management software.  The agreement represents continued expansion for Key Green Solutions in the mid-Atlantic market.
Charlotte Wallace, Sustainability Coordinator states, “Anne Arundel Health System is partnering with Key Green Solutions because their comprehensive web-based, automated software provides energy consumption, waste measurements and facility benchmarking.  This will allow us to track and measure our sustainability initiatives and influence our organizations carbon emission impact.”
Jeff Burks, Relationship Manager for KGS, commented, “We are very pleased that Anne Arundel Health System has selected Key Green Solutions as the provider of its sustainability management software.  We welcome Dena Jackson (Director, Supply Chain), Charlotte Wallace (Sustainability Coordinator), and their high quality team to the Key Green Solutions family and are looking forward to a mutually rewarding partnership.”

Key Green Solutions, the leading hospital sustainability management software company recognizes 4 hospitals – Covenant Health Systems

The Key Green Solutions Sustainability Management Excellence Awards were presented in Denver, CO, at the Key Green Solutions reception on May 1, 2012.
Covenant Health Systems 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 Covenant Health Systems’ commitment to their patients and
community through their system-wide sustainability initiatives” said Jeff Burks,
Relationship Manager of Key Green Solutions.  “Mr. David Lincoln, Ms. Nancy Mulvihill and all their leaders across this multi-state, multi-facility healthcare organization are one of the nations leader’s in sustainability.”

Key Green Solutions, the leading hospital sustainability management software company recognizes 4 hospitals – Palomar Health

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.”

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