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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!

Key Green Solutions Welcomes Tim Schuitema

Key Green Solutions is thrilled to welcome Tim Schuitema, our newest Implementation Coordinator, to the Key Green Solutions family.
Tim Schuitema is a graduate of Calvin College with a Bachelor’s of Arts in Business Administration and Psychology. While at Calvin College, Tim spent time volunteering at Adam’s Head Start and interning at Weather Shield Roofing providing customers with estimates. Tim brings excellent project management skills, customer service, and flexibility to his position at Key Green Solutions.

Key Green Visits West Coast Customers

Key Green Solutions had a fantastic time visiting several of our West Coast customers. We had the opportunity to meet with sister Mary Ellen Leciejewski from Dignity Health, Terry Duffinia and Erika Kimball from Stanford, and Jean Parkinson from VA Palo Alto.

Key Green Solutions welcomes Julia Reigler

Key Green Solutions is thrilled to welcome Julia Reigler, our newest Implementation Coordinator, to the Key Green Solutions family.
Julia is a graduate of Michigan State University with a Bachelor’s of Science in Environmental Science and Sustainability. While at Michigan State, Julia worked on a community sustainability project that helped with the local farmer’s market at the Lansing State Capital. Julia also has previous work experience in customer satisfaction. Her studies have included environmental management, environmental engineering, and practicing sustainable design. Julia has a strong passion for the environment and believes that it is important to better the current environmental state.
Jeff Burks, Key Green Solutions Relationship Manager, writes “we are very excited to have Julia Reigler join our team. Her customer service skills will greatly benefit our users. Welcome Julia!”

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.