Key Green Solutions kicked off the first day of Art Prize by volunteering at the S.O.R.T. station, which served as a waste station to help educate participants on how to properly dispose of their waste. S.O.R.T station bins and volunteers were stationed outside throughout the Art Prize venue, and enthusiastically educated visitors about the compost, recycling, and landfill options.
Art Prize brings nearly 400,000 visitors to Grand Rapids for an independently organized art competition, making the S.O.R.T stations an opportune time to educate and minimize waste from the event. The S.O.R.T stations are in partnership with Art Prize and the West Michigan Environmental Action Council, all of which is an effort to support the City of Grand Rapid’s commitment to sustainability.
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Key Green Solutions Teams Up With Well House
The Key Green team got to flex their muscles and break a sweat in the name of helping the community. Key Green Solutions spent several hours working in one of eight urban garden lots weeding, mulching, and clearing an urban garden for a local Grand Rapids organization, Well House.
Well House provide safe, affordable housing for the homeless. The organization purchases vacant homes in Grand Rapids and turns them into beautiful and vibrant homes for those in need. Homes are provided to those in the most dire of needs and residents are allowed to stay until they are ready to move on. Their vision for the organization includes creating a vibrant community and neighborhood connected by land and the food from it, people, and culture.
Their eight urban gardens provide residents with an opportunity for income and freshly grown produce to eat. The organization even offers cooking classes to residents to inspire them to cook more and use the ingredients from the garden.
Rachel Brown, Relationship Coordinator, commented, “It was such a positive experience for our organization to work with Well House. We all feel aligned with their purpose to help those in need and the urban garden is beautiful and functional. We look forward to spending more time volunteering in their urban garden. “
Key Green Gives Back
Key Green Solutions sponsored and volunteered in the 5th annual Rivertown Races, a half marathon and 5k which supported local organizations dedicated to children’s health, education, and well-being.
The Key Green team worked an aid station in the half marathon run, handing out water, Gatorade, and cheering on the participants. Our company values staying involved in the community and giving back to local organizations.
Tim Schuitema, Implementation Coordinator, commented, “It was really nice to get together as a team to take pride in the community.”
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 welcomes Dignity Health as a customer
Key Green Solutions, the leading hospital sustainability management software company, announces today that it has entered into an agreement with Dignity Health to provide exclusive sustainability management software for their 37 hospitals and other offsite facilities. The agreement represents an expansion for Key Green Solutions in the west.
“Dignity Health is very excited about our partnership with Key Green Solutions sustainability software. Our management is able to review and compare facility energy, water, waste usage/volumes and local/sustainable food purchases across the system (37 hospitals and other locations) and facilitate development of reports and applications for awards. We are able to measure our progress in meeting our goals and objectives, as well as see where we can do better and determine changes that need to be made. When we combine our great sustainability initiatives and the comprehensive web-based Key Green dashboard, the opportunities to grow as a health system are limitless.” Sister Mary Ellen Leciejewski, Director of Ecology, Dignity Health
Jeff Burks, Relationship Manager for Key Green Solutions, commented, “We are very pleased that Dignity Health has selected Key Green Solutions as the provider of its sustainability management software. We welcome Sister Susan Vickers (Vice President of Community Health), Sister Mary Ellen and David Jones (System Director, Energy & Facility Services Corporate Real Estate) and their high quality Dignity team to the Key Green Solutions family and are looking forward to a mutually rewarding partnership.”
Key Green Solutions, LLC welcomes Saint Joseph Hospital, a member of Presence Health, as a customer.
Key Green Solutions LLC, the leading hospital sustainability management software company, announces today that it has entered into an agreement with Saint Joseph Hospital, a member of Presence Health, to provide exclusive sustainability management
software for their hospitals. The agreement represents an expansion for Key Green Solutions in the state of Illinois.
Jeff Burks, Relationship Manager for Key Green Solutions, commented, “We are very pleased that Saint Joseph Hospital has selected Key Green Solutions as the provider of its
sustainability management software. We welcome Larry Dry (Vice President, Strategy and Operations), Julie Antioho (Director of Perioperative Services), Al Jensen (AVP, Facilities Management) and their high quality team to the Key Green Solutions family and are looking forward to a mutually rewarding partnership.”
Stanford University Medical Center and Key Green Solutions partnership highlighted in the Healthier Hospitals Initiative (HHI) landfill avoidance success story.
Success story highlighted here – http://healthierhospitals.org/get-inspired/success-stories/stanford-university-medical-center-landfill-avoidance
Stanford University Medical Center’s long list of green initiatives has been awarded special honors by the health care industry’s nationally-recognized leader in environmentally responsible operations.
Stanford Hospital & Clinics is dedicated to providing leading edge and coordinated care to each and every patient. It is internationally renowned for expertise in areas such as cancer treatment, neuroscience, surgery, cardiovascular medicine and organ transplant, as well as for translating medical breakthroughs into patient care. Throughout its history, Stanford has been at the forefront of discovery and innovation, as researchers and clinicians work together to improve health on a global level. Stanford Hospital & Clinics: Healing humanity through science and compassion, one patient at a time.
Key Green Solutions is the leading international provider of a sustainability management software suite for healthcare. Key Green is benchmarking and standardizing energy, water, waste, food and environmentally preferred purchasing data for hospitals and helping in their quest for increasing efficiency and managing costs as they deliver care in their facilities. The software has interfaces to load the vendor’s electronic data, instead of manually collecting the data in spreadsheets.
Key Green Solutions participates on an expert panel at the Greening Health Care Workshop in Toronto, Ontario on November 27, 2013.
Here is the workshop agenda: Agenda
Greening Health Care provides the knowledge and resources you need to maximize energy and operating cost savings and raise the environmental performance for your hospital to be a leader in the community.
Key Green Solutions is the leading international provider of a sustainability
management software suite for healthcare. Key Green is benchmarking and
standardizing energy, water, waste, food and environmentally preferred purchasing
data for hospitals and helping in their quest for increasing efficiency and managing costs as they deliver care in their facilities. The software has interfaces to load the vendor’s
electronic data, instead of manually collecting the data in spreadsheets.
Key Green Solutions, LLC welcomes Howard County General Hospital, a member of Johns Hopkins Medicine, as a customer.
Key Green Solutions LLC, the leading hospital sustainability management software company, announces today that it has entered into an agreement with Howard County General Hospital, a member of Johns Hopkins Medicine, to provide exclusive
sustainability management software for their hospitals.
Jeff Burks, Relationship Manager for Key Green Solutions, commented, “We are very pleased that Howard County General Hospital has selected Key Green Solutions as the provider of its sustainability management software. We welcome Nick Nutting (Administrator, Patient Care Services), Debra Dennis (EVS Director) and their high quality team to the Key Green Solutions family and are looking forward to a mutually rewarding partnership.”
Key Green Solutions welcomes Beaumont Health, Troy campus, as a customer.
Key Green Solutions, the leading hospital sustainability management software company, announces today that it has entered into an agreement with Beaumont Health, Troy campus, to provide exclusive sustainability management software for their hospital. The agreement represents continued expansion for Key Green Solutions in the Michigan market.
Jeff Burks, Relationship Manager for Key Green Solutions, commented, “We are very pleased that Beaumont Health, Troy campus, has selected Key Green Solutions as the provider of its sustainability management software. We welcome Ms. Connie O’Malley (Vice President, Chief Operating Officer) and her high quality team to the Key Green Solutions family and are looking forward to a mutually rewarding partnership.”