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Key Green Solutions Supports Customers with Practice Greenhealth Awards

Each year, hospitals apply for the Practice Greenhealth Awards to highlight their commitment to sustainability and environmental stewardship. While the awards are an important recognition, the application itself is long and time-consuming, especially for busy sustainability teams.

That’s where we help.

As a healthcare-focused sustainability software company, we already collect and manage the data needed for the award. Because all this information lives in our platform, our customers don’t need to spend hours pulling reports or re-entering data.

Each year, we:

Support 100+ hospital customers with their applications
Complete 11 sections of the award on their behalf: Energy, Water, Waste, Food, Reprocessed Devices, EPEAT, Greening the OR, Healthy Interiors, Green Cleaning Chemicals, Green Building, and Climate
Ensure accurate, consistent, and timely submissions

By handling the data gathering and entry, we remove pressure from hospital teams and allow them to focus on driving real sustainability impact. We’re proud to stand behind the hospitals making healthcare more sustainable—and to make the awards process just a little bit easier along the way.

Interested in how our software can support your sustainability goals? Reach out to schedule a free demo: Key Green Solutions : Contact Us

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

KGS Customer Recognition

Key Green Solutions is proud to recognize one of our customers in their outstanding work towards sustainability!

During a meeting, users from one of the healthcare systems we support let us know that multiple facilities have qualified for the 2022 Energy to Care Award by the American Society for Health Care Engineering. This is amazing work that is well deserved, and we are honored to walk with them every step along their journey.

Key Green Solutions has made this road a lot simpler for sustainability, nutrition, and facilities teams, taking on the responsibility of uploading automated data that we store straight from their vendors. Our team uploads data on behalf of customers so that instead of spending hours working through mandatory entries (like Energy Star Portfolio Manager, or PGH Award Applications) they can focus on daily improvements on site.

If you would like to learn more about Key Green Solutions and the work our team does on your behalf, feel free to visit our website: www.keygreensolutions.com and click ‘contact us’ for a free demonstration.

Congratulations again to our champion customers!

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

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!

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.

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.

University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center has been honored with the “Sustainability Tracking Award for a Large Hospital” for 2017 from Key Green Solutions

Cleveland Medical Center has been honored with the “Sustainability Tracking Award for a Large Hospital” for 2017 from Key Green Solutions, the leading sustainability management software company. The award recognizes Cleveland Medical Center as the best performing large (>500 beds) hospital that is successfully measuring, setting system goals, benchmarking, and creating a culture of sustainability. Cleveland Medical Center stands out with their strong commitment to energy, waste, food, and purchasing. They achieved top 25% highest recycling, top 25% lowest in water, and top 25% lowest RMW. They were the highest performer in the following categories; Local/sustainable Food, Healthy Beverages, and Green Cleaning purchases.

The Key Green Solutions Sustainability Tracking Awards were presented in San Diego, CA at the Key Green Solutions reception on May 7, 2018

Dignity Health St. Mary’s Medical Center has been honored with the “Sustainability Tracking Award for a Medium Hospital” for 2017 from Key Green Solutions

Dignity Health St. Mary’s Medical Center has been honored with the “Sustainability Tracking Award for a Medium Hospital” for 2017 from Key Green Solutions, the leading sustainability management software company. The award recognizes St. Mary’s Medical Center as the best performing medium (100-499 beds) hospital that is successfully measuring, setting system goals, benchmarking, and creating a culture of sustainability. St. Mary’s Medical Center stands out with their strong commitment to energy and waste. They achieved top 25% highest recycling, top 25% lowest in water, top 25% lowest RMW, and top 25% lowest energy used. They were the top performer in Healthy Beverages at 65.9%.

The Key Green Solutions Sustainability Tracking Awards were presented in San Diego, CA at the Key Green Solutions reception on May 7, 2018

TriHealth Bethesda Butler Hospital has been honored with the “Sustainability Tracking Award for a Small Hospital” for 2017 from Key Green Solutions

TriHealth Bethesda Butler Hospital has been honored with the “Sustainability Tracking Award for a Small Hospital” for 2017 from Key Green Solutions, the leading sustainability management software company. The award recognizes TriHealth Bethesda Butler Hospital as the best performing small (0-99 beds) hospital that is successfully measuring, setting system goals, benchmarking, and creating and culture of sustainability. TriHealth Bethesda Butler Hospital stands out with their strong commitment to water. They achieved top 25% lowest in water. They also achieved top 25% in the lowest amount energy used. Bethesda Butler is the top performer in; Local/sustainable food purchases, recycling rate, and RMW rate.

The Key Green Solutions Sustainability Tracking Awards were presented in San Diego, CA at the Key Green Solutions reception on May 7, 2018

Sutter Health has been honored with the “Sustainability Tracking Award for an Emerging User” for 2017 from Key Green Solutions

Sutter Health has been honored with the “Emerging User Award” for 2017 from Key Green Solutions, the leading sustainability management software company. The award recognized Sutter Health for their engagement and commitment to improving sustainability and growing the sustainability culture at their organization.

The Key Green Solutions Sustainability Tracking Awards were presented in San Diego, CA at the Key Green Solutions reception on May 7, 2018.