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Key Green Solutions Attends HealthTrust Connect

Relationship Manager, Jeff Burks, to join the HealthTrust Connect Show panel on 10/25/24

HealthTrust Performance Group is hosting a Connect Show, an event enabling healthcare leaders to learn more about sustainability in healthcare through conversation, panels, and connection with vendors. Key Green Solutions is honored to have been invited to participate in this event, and to present information about how healthcare can continue internal innovation and community improvement through better sustainability practices.

Key Green’s Relationship Manager, Jeff Burks, will be sitting at the table on October 25 answering the industry’s leading questions concerning data collection, and what has and has not worked for healthcare systems across the United States. Jeff will speak about how data can be utilized and shifted to provide a baseline of truth when adapted from otherwise scattered formats; the first real step in making a positive impact on the healthcare sector.

If you are interested in speaking with Key Green Solutions about tracking your sustainability metrics, please reach out to Relationship Manager Jeff Burks: jburks@keygreensolutions.com

https://my.keygreensolutions.com/contact-us

Key Green Solutions receives GSA Federal Supply Schedule Multiple Award – Contract Number GS-35F-314BA

Key Green Solutions has been awarded GSA Federal Supply Schedule Multiple Award IT Schedule contract effective April 9, 2014. The contract period is through April 8, 2019.
Mona Settle, GSA Contracting Officer, states “Congratulations on receiving your GSA Federal Supply Schedule Multiple Award IT Schedule contract under Solicitation Number FCIS-JB-980001B, Refresh 32.”

Key Green Solutions LLC becomes a Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce member

Key Green Solutions is excited about joining the Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce. The rapidly expanding organization views Chamber membership as a tool to increase their visibility in the business community. According to Jeff Burks, Relationship Manager of Key Green Solutions, “We became a Chamber member to increase our presence in the marketplace.”
http://www.grandrapids.org/member-spotlight

Key Green Solutions LLC (KGS) presents with West Michigan Shared Hospital Laundry at the IAHTM 2011 Annual Meeting in St. John, New Brunswick on September 17-22, 2011.

The International Association for Healthcare Textile Management (IAHTM) was founded in 1969 and, today, is the largest healthcare central laundry organization in the world. IAHTM members provide service to approximately 3,000 healthcare facilities in the U.S. and Canada and process 700 million pounds of clean linen each year. Key Green Solutions LLC, the leading hospital sustainability management software company, is proud to be a partner with West Michigan Shared Hospital Laundry and to participate in the exciting event.

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

Key Green Solutions, LLC (KGS) enhances the software to provide increased security for our customers.

www.keygreensolutions.com KGS stresses its privacy and security standards to guard against identity theft and provide security for our customer’s information. We regularly evaluate our privacy and security policies and adapt them as necessary to deal with new challenges. We have increased our security with high grade 256-bit SSL encryption and secure identification of our network web server providing a significantly higher degree of security.
Jeff Burks, Relationship Manager for Key Green Solutions states, “Bank-level security is our standard so our customer’s can have peace of mind.”