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Sustainable Purchase Tracking: How Green are Your Purchases?

Another module Key Green Solutions offers is Purchasing! It’s important to know what your facility is buying. With our software, you can manage and measure different categories of product purchases!

•Safer Chemicals (Green Cleaning, DEHP/PVC Reduction, Healthy Interiors)

•Smarter Purchasing (Reprocessed Devices (SUD), EPEAT)

•Paper (Post Consumer Recycled)

•Office Supplies (Cartridges, IT Equipment, etc.)

•Telecommunications (Telephone, Long Distance, Wireless, Cable/Satellite, Broadband/Data)

Our software helps easily identify which products are being purchased to promote safer and healthier environments. Take a step towards greener purchasing to help promote better health for your community’s environment!

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!

All Your Energy Data at the Touch of Your Fingertips!

At Key Green Solutions, one of the modules we offer for tracking is Energy & Water. We are able to obtain data directly from your vendors, making the process easy for your employees. Simply log in and have a comprehensive view of all your data.

Track energy sources by meter (consumption and supply) costs in one place:

Electricity (Grid, Hydroelectric, Wind, Solar, Biomass, Cogeneration)
- Heating (Natural Gas, Steam, Propane, Fuel, Cogeneration)
- Water (Potable water, Sewage, Irrigation, Make-Up, and Storm water)
- Chilled Water
- Hot Water

We normalize the energy data to account for changes in:

Weather (heating and cooling degree days)
- Square footage
- Billing cycle days / Calendar month days
- Rates

We are able to help you look at meter usage, and can point out any problems that may be costing your organization money in the long run.

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

Track Your Waste with Key Green Solutions!

At Key Green Solutions we offer different modules for tracking data at your facility. One of the modules we track is waste! Customers can log in and run reports for all facilities in their system, and even get automatically formulated graphs that are easily exported for presentation purposes.

With our waste module you can: Analyze waste generation, see landfill avoidance savings, view recycling volumes, and look at cost trends over time using benchmarks and performance reports for each facility.

Track all of the following in one portal:

Municipal Solid Waste (Compactors, Front Load, etc.)
- Regulated Medical Waste (Red Bag, Yellow Bag, Chemo, Sharps, etc.)
- Pharmaceutical Waste (RCRA, Non-RCRA, Controlled Substance)
- Hazardous Waste (Aerosols, Xylene, Flammable Liquids, Labpacks, etc.)
- Recycling (Compost, Shredding, Cardboard, Single Stream, Blue Wrap, etc.)
- Universal (Electronics, Batteries, Lamps, etc.)
- Reuse (Donations, Reprocessed Devices (SUD), Pallets, Linens, etc.)
- Construction and Demolition (Solid Waste, Recycling, Concrete, Asbestos, etc.)

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

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!

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 59 hospitals. We scrubbed through 610,082 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.

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.

Energy Star Export Available to Key Green Customers

Key Green Solutions is proud to announce our Energy Star Export located on the new Key Green Solutions dashboard. This easy to use feature enables users to generate an excel document with their energy data. The data is then in the ideal format to uploaded into Energy Star Portfolio Manager. This feature is available to all Key Green customers.

Key Green Solutions creates 2017 Practice Greenhealth Award export

Key Green Solutions is proud to announce their exclusive partnership with Practice Greenhealth to create a data export for the 2017 Practice Greenhealth Awards, which is now available to all Key Green customers.
This feature is located directly on the Key Green Solutions portal, allowing all customers to have access to a simple data export to download their data. This allows for a seamless application process, as Key Green customers will no longer have to manually enter the data into the award application. This data export alleviates some of stress associated with award application season.
Sister Mary Ellen Leciejewski, Director of Ecology, Dignity Health commented, “through our partnership with Key Green Solutions, starting this year, the Practice Greenhealth Award Application will be so much easier to complete because of Key Green Solutions’ ability to upload all our quantitative data into the award application. In 2016 only 7 Dignity Health hospitals applied for awards because of how much time it takes to complete the award application. In 2017, Dignity Health will be able to apply for System for Change Award, because all 37 hospitals will have data uploaded by Key Green Solutions saving our hospitals weeks of work thanks to Key Green. Our exciting partnership continues to expand as the opportunities grow in our health system to become more sustainable”.

Key Green Solutions welcomes Julia Reigler

Key Green Solutions is thrilled to welcome Julia Reigler, our newest Implementation Coordinator, to the Key Green Solutions family.
Julia is a graduate of Michigan State University with a Bachelor’s of Science in Environmental Science and Sustainability. While at Michigan State, Julia worked on a community sustainability project that helped with the local farmer’s market at the Lansing State Capital. Julia also has previous work experience in customer satisfaction. Her studies have included environmental management, environmental engineering, and practicing sustainable design. Julia has a strong passion for the environment and believes that it is important to better the current environmental state.
Jeff Burks, Key Green Solutions Relationship Manager, writes “we are very excited to have Julia Reigler join our team. Her customer service skills will greatly benefit our users. Welcome Julia!”