Key Green Solutions Assists in Pursuance of State Law Requirements

Key Green Solutions has become familiar with legislation that varies from state to state, and works alongside systems to make sure that guidelines are being followed.

One example of legislation regarding energy utilities is Assembly Bill No. 802, which was filed and approved by California Legislation back in October of 2015. Although this bill set out to clarify the goals for utility vendors to store critical energy utility information, Key Green Solutions has played a large role in maintaining the integrity and interpretation of reporting for many California customers. While the legislation addressed vendor storage of data, Key Green Solutions offers real-time usage for this data in one central platform where customers can review, check, and report in clear and concise tables and visual graphics. Rather than manually relaying information from many sources, customers can log in, view condensed data for date ranges selected, and export information as needed—all while having the ability to refer to a personal coordinator for assistance.

Government compliance often becomes more difficult as buildings and square footages become larger, but with Key Green Solutions compliance reporting becomes much easier. Our staff not only takes care of data submission for award applications, but also supports data entry for tools such as ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager, which is a tool that has been mandated by many states. While reserving the ability to report information on their own through personal access to Key Green Solutions, customers can also choose to sit back and wait for data to come from or be populated by their Key Green Solutions team directly into the source.

Practice Green Health, 2019 Data

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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, LLC has been named a 2011 Innovation Michigan finalist

KeyGreen Solutions, LLC, an innovative hospital sustainability web based software company based in Grand Rapids has been named a top 25 finalist for the 2011 Innovation Michigan Awards by BusinessReview West Michigan
Mark Huizenga, Key Green Solutions Manager is also a health care consultant , states
that Key Green Solutions unique software suite has been a providing of software
to West Michigan hospitals several years.  Key Green Solutions continues to grow their market, expanding into several additional states.    This year Key Green Solutions has had several new installations in hospitals in Michigan and has expanded into Maryland,
Indiana and Ohio.  Key Green continues to provide distinctive energy, waste, and recycling programs for hospitals.  There are a number of features that make this software exceptional for hospitals, such as facilitation the green movement in a facility through their project management component.  Sustainability has been a growing market, but
the Key Green software not only “greens” their hospital clients, but also helps them realize a “bottom line” result as well.  Jeff Burks is Key Green’s relationship manager, Jeff stated the growth for this product has been phenomenal, we will continue to grow, and expect to have the software suite in an additional 100 hospitals by year end.
For more information about how Key Green Solutions can help your hospital, contact Jeff Burks at 1-877-777-0862. www.keygreensolutions.com

Key Green Solutions Customer Saves Energy and Money by Retrofitting Lamps

1 simple way to produce real energy savings; a Key Green Solutions hospital customer retrofitted their lamps from T12 to T8 and saved both energy and money.

The hospital saw several benefits after retrofitting from T12 to T8

  • It was simple to do.
  • They saved over $50,000 annually.
  • Their simple payback was less than 2 years.
  • T8 lamps function with reduced mercury, a potentially harmful substance used in many lighting fixtures, therefore T8s are more sustainable.

The hospital utilizes Key Green Solutions sustainability software suite to measure and manage their energy conservation initiatives.  Find out how your hospital can utilize Key Green software – the first 30 minute phone call is free – Call Jeff Burks, Relationship Manager at 877-777-0862.

Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care (CCHGC) recognizes Key Green Solutions as a charter member at the 2011 Canadian Healthcare Engineering Society (CHES) conference held in Collingwood, Ontario

CCGHC is an alliance of committed Canadian health service organizations, associations and environmentally focused business associates that promotes the adoption of environmentally friendly and sustainable health care service delivery to complement the compassionate delivery of health care.   CCGHC encourages the adoption of resource conservation, pollution prevention principles and effective environmental management systems to reduce the Canadian health care sys­tem’s ecological impact while protecting human health.
Key Green Solutions (KGS) is a leading international provider of a sustainability management software suite for healthcare.  KGS is benchmarking and standardizing energy, water and waste data for hospitals and helping in their quest for increasing efficiency and managing costs as they deliver care in their facilities.

The Center for Sustainability at Aquinas College highlights Key Green Solutions as one of Spectrum Health’s unique programs

Spectrum Health System has a nationally recognized sustainability program.  Aquinas College, the first institution in the United States to offer undergraduate degrees in sustainable business, recognizes what Spectrum has accomplished.  Click on the link to see a list of the many unique sustainability programs that have been implemented at Spectrum, including partnering with Key Green Solutions sustainability management software suite.
http://www.centerforsustainability.org/resources.php?root=176&category=294

Automated tracking recognized by two Key Green Solutions customers

Spectrum Health System and Metro Health are managing and measuring their sophisticated and complex recycling programs with ease.  Read this article to learn how they do it.
http://www.mibiz.com/news/sustainable-biz/16795-spectrum-metro-health-find-automation-tracking-key-to-increased-recycling.html

2011 Michigan Going Green Award Winner

Key Green Solutions receives the 2011 Michigan Going Green Award for being a “Green Industry Innovator“.  Companies honored are those that have made sustainable practices a business strategy that also results in profitability.
http://www.corpmagazine.com/features/cover-stories/itemid/2208/pageid/4/michigan-businesses-ambassadors-for-a-better-plan

Which do you prefer: Reducing Energy Costs, Or Driving Green Initiatives? You can have both!

Tracking metrics?  Riding the sustainability “wave”?  According to the Center of Sustainability at Aquinas College, “’Sustainable Business’ is a non-traditional strategy that strives to maximize effectiveness”.  Tracking Metrics can tell you what you should do and as a result, you will be measuring your successes.
Key Green Solutions’ cutting-edge Sustainability Management Web-Based Software designed for Hospital and hospital shared laundry facilities makes tracking sustainability metrics simple and saves the organization time and money.  Our software automates your energy, water and waste data collection and analysis, benchmarks the data using health care metrics (patient days, licensed beds, FTE’s, etc) and provides advanced reporting with dashboards, scorecards, facility comparison, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions calculations.
It sounds complicated, but with the integrated project management tools the software helps your team learn about sustainability, assists management as they strive towards reducing costs and drives green initiatives.
Find out how health care is saving time and money with Key Green Solutions web-based software. (http://www.keygreensolutions.com)