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Award Application Season and Easy Automation

At Key Green Solutions we take pride in making your job easier! We are able to take all the data for your facilities and make them clear, concise, and readily available. Your team doesn’t need to worry about pulling together invoices or finding the right point of contact; we take care of this throughout the year on your behalf.

Practice Greenhealth Award Applications are made easier, along with any other awards your system may be applying for (another being Energy Star); just reach out to your relationship coordinator for more information.

To hear more about our software and how it can save your company time, please reach out to us for a free demonstration: Key Green Solutions :: Contact Us

or e-mail Relationship Manager Jeff Burks: jburks@keygreensolutions.com

Merry Christmas from Key Green Solutions to You

Key Green Solutions is wishing you, your family, and businesses a very Merry Christmas!

Key Green Solutions employees took turns ringing the bell for The Salvation Army at a local store for the day. We hope this season is a time of joy and peace for you and yours. See you in 2022!

Joining Our Team with Yours

Last month the Key Green Solutions team joined together for a fun evening to watch the West Michigan White Caps game.

Key Green Solutions is a whole made of many different parts, all equally important. Our relationship coordinators work hard to help you with day-to-day requests, while our data specialists work to upload and maintain all of your facility’s data. The relationships built internally on our side help give you the best service possible, and we make sure that is evident in our interactions with customers and the quality of your experience.

Key Green Solutions is a sustainability software program that helps your facility track many different metrics involving food, waste, energy, and purchasing. If you have questions about Key Green Solutions or would like to schedule a free demonstration, please contact Jeff Burks at jburks@keygreensolutions.com

Minority Owned Businesses: Let’s Talk About It!

In light of events going on worldwide, lots of companies are working to be more inclusive and more intentional about where they are putting their money and whom they are supporting. Key Green Solutions can help your company make those moves and take a closer look at the kind of world you’re working to create.

Within Key Green Solutions software you are able to view which of your vendors are minority owned! With your permission, your relationship coordinator will reach out to each vendor at your facilities and request information about who owns the company/ how much diversity is in the vendor’s workforce. You can then take this information and relay it with real numbers, showing your system’s desire for diversity in its community.

Key Green Solutions—Compliments Software Within Your Facility

At Key Green Solutions, we work with raw data coming straight from your vendors. This means that we receive the most accurate data to provide your team with precise reporting and analytics. Key Green supplements many software tools you may already have in place. For example, we can partner with your Stericycle IWSS team and enhance data reporting by breaking down your waste categories. We can take big data and make it as small as you would like—creating easy to use charts, graphs and benchmarks – in which ever format your team needs!

We work closely with Stericycle IWSS staff to create “pull reports” that help with their sustainability reporting, and we are able to provide benchmarking. We also can include any fees you pay in your monthly cost reporting. We help make reporting more comprehensive, and can improve upon any programs you wish to strengthen.

Key Green Solutions can be introduced to any facility and fits in any atmosphere. Our job is to make data handling easier for everyone on your team, whether these team members are internal, or programs run by your vendors.

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

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!

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.