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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!

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 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!

Key Green Solutions Instrumental in Plastics Recycling Study

Key Greens Solutions is proud to provide the software engine to participating hospitals for a plastic recycling initiative in the Chicagoland area. http://www.hprc.org/chicago-project
Key Green Solutions partnered with HPRC and the Plastics Industry Association to track the solid waste and recycling coming out of multi-hospitals in the Chicago market in order to provide data and insight into the recycling of healthcare plastics on a regional basis. The data was instrumental in defining the quantities of material types and relative volumes of various items. Overall, the study has helped hospital organizations to identifying areas of opportunity to increase healthcare plastics recycling.

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.”