Sustainability – Page 2 – Key Green Solutions Blog

Key Green Solutions Supports Local Water Cleanup

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.

Practice Greenhealth: Another Successful Application Season

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

Better Performance from Key Green Solutions

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!

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: Beyond Data Tracking

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:

upload data to other interfaces
put together presentations
contact your vendors concerning any data discrepancies
send out reports
train coworkers to use the software
and more!

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!

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!

Key Green Solutions a Silver Friend of the 2019 CHA Assembly

Key Green Solutions was honored to be a Silver Sponsor Friend of the CHA Assembly in Dallas, TX. This was our third year as a sponsor, and it was a great experience.

Key Green Solutions with our customer CommonSpirit Health on June 10, 2019

As a sponsor, we were able to meet many great members and share our software solution designed for healthcare. Our modular based software is the leading sustainability data solution for healthcare. The modules include:

• Waste

• Energy/Water

• Food

• Purchasing

Our solution automates your data collection process to all your vendors, eliminates paper, and allows you to benchmark your facilities internally or to national Key Green benchmarks.

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.

Key Green Successfully Uploads Data to Practice Greenhealth Award Application

Another Successful Year!

Key Green Solutions has not only done it again, but we have done it bigger and better than last year. This year we automatically uploaded data into the Practice Greenhealth Partner for Change Award Application for 74 hospitals. We scrubbed through 774,834 data records to answer 4,000 questions in the Award Application. It took 5 minutes.

How? One word; Automatic. Key Green Solutions is the Gold Standard for data. We collect data directly from the vendors and upload it into our software. We receive this data monthly from the vendors and keep our Dashboard up to date, allowing hospitals to view the most accurate and current data. Our team reviews the data and clarifies any discrepancies with the vendors. This is how we export data into the PGH Award Application, all it takes is one click.

Other data upload statistics include:

• Reported over $200 million in energy costs

• Reported over 56 million pounds of recycling – our users averaged 45% recycling rate

• Reported over 1.5 million pounds of sustainable meats purchased – our users averaged 28% sustainable meat

• Reported over $4 million in local food purchases

• Reported over $9.5 million in sustainable food purchases

Key Green Solutions doesn’t just help hospitals save time and money, we help those hospitals set the standard, the standard of excellence. We would like to thank all the hospitals that relied on our team to help complete the Practice Greenhealth Award Application. It was our pleasure serving you and we look forward to next year’s upload.