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!
Key Green Solutions is proud to sponsor the Kent Conservation District, whose mission is “to protect and enhance the natural resources of Kent County“.
Kent Conservation District provides natural resource management resources, and works towards the betterment of the state of Michigan overall, an effort KGS is proud to get behind with financial support. We hope that by teaming up with local efforts we can help create a more sustainable and healthy future. This aligns with the work of our clients, whether in a healthcare, educational, governmental, or transportation setting: working together to make small changes for a brighter future, and to be the leaders in industrial sustainability efforts.
We are proud to support and team up with customers who are also working towards a better future; if you would like a free demonstration of our software please reach out to Jeff Burks: jburks@keygreensolutions.com
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
In Grand Rapids, Michigan, there is an annual water cleanup for the Grand River. The West Michigan Environmental Action Council spoke a few days ago on the importance of civilians stepping up and helping to remove the trash and pollution, especially as life has become so virtually- driven and busy (https://grbj.com/news/sustainability/wmeac-to-host-weeklong-mayors-grand-river-cleanup/¬).
The WMEAC has extended this challenge of grouping together during a time of solitude and uncertainty to citizens, and Key Green Solutions is happy to answer the call by helping to sponsor the 17th annual Mayors’ Grand River Cleanup. It is more important than ever to push on towards sustainability, and we hope to be leaders in our community stepping towards a better future. We are inspired by our customers, the leaders in healthcare for environmentally forward initiatives, and look for opportunities to support community health in any way we can. We encourage all to come together and help make a difference, whether that difference be on a large scale in the healthcare setting, or at a local community water cleanup effort.
Another season of Practice Greenhealth award applications has come to a close, and our team is looking forward to seeing our customers’ results!
Every year Key Green Solutions supports their customers applying to Practice Greenhealth by populating their application with data pulled directly out of Key Green Solution’s software application, and this data is then QC’d by the healthcare system’s personal Key Green Solutions Relationship Coordinator. This year we automatically uploaded data into the Practice Greenhealth Partner for Change Award application for 49 hospitals. We sorted through 1.5 million data records and answered around 4,000 questions; for us this takes about 5 minutes per location, all because of one word: automation.
Our automatic process saves the healthcare system time and money; there is no longer a need to scramble through endless excel sheets to find the data, and our customers can leave all the work up to Key Green Solutions. We help our customers set the standard of excellence for the healthcare community nationwide. Now all there is left to do is wait for that award!
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
Key Green continues to invest to provide our customers best-in-class performance!
Last week our team of technicians upgraded our production severs, taking our user experience to a new level. The new servers take advantage of virtualization; our main server and mobile server are now virtual machines that allow us to move seamlessly to new hardware in the future. We now have the capability to move to our backup server in a very short amount of time if hardware problems arise. Our database server was upgraded to new hardware and faster drives to handle increased activity and volume of clients and customers.
With our new servers and operating system on the database– combined with the migration of the web servers to virtual containers– Key Green Solutions is poised for long-term operation with simplified future upgrades and larger volumes of data processing. Our customers will be experiencing a faster, more robust environment as they run complex reports!
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.
Did you know that Key Green Solutions is not just a software system? We go beyond a website, and have an entire team that helps you interpret and collect your data. When you bring our software to your organization, you get your own personal relationship coordinator that is dedicated to helping your facilities thrive.
Your relationship coordinator can help you:
Does your facility use EnergyStar Portfolio Manager? No longer does your team have to spend hours on end uploading data; we can do it for you! We are dedicated to making your job easier. We take care of the details so that your team can focus on the big picture, and positively impacting your communities!
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!
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!
