The Key Green Solutions Sustainability Management Excellence Awards were presented in Denver, CO, at the Key Green Solutions reception on May 1, 2012.
University of Maryland Medical Center has been honored with a “Sustainability Management Excellence” Award 2012 from Key Green Solutions. The Management Excellence Award recognizes health systems that are successfully measuring, setting system goals, benchmarking, and creating a culture of sustainability.
“This award demonstrates University of Maryland Medical Center’s commitment to their
patients and community through their system-wide sustainability initiatives” said Jeff Burks, Relationship Manager of Key Green Solutions. “Ms. Denise Choiniere and her leadership team have developed UMMC into one of the nation’s premier healthcare organizations in sustainability”.
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Key Green Solutions, the leading hospital sustainability management software company recognizes 4 hospitals – Metro Health
The Key Green Solutions Sustainability Management Excellence Awards were presented in Denver, CO, at the Key Green Solutions reception on May 1, 2012.
Metro Health has been honored with a “Sustainability Management Excellence” Award 2012 from Key Green Solutions. The Management Excellence Award recognizes health systems that are successfully measuring, setting system goals, benchmarking, and creating a culture of sustainability.
“This award demonstrates Metro Health’s commitment to their patients and community through their system-wide sustainability initiatives” said Jeff Burks, Relationship
Manager of Key Green Solutions. “Mr. Bob Vanrees, Ms. Alison Waske, and their leadership team have become one of the nation’s trendsetters in healthcare sustainability.”
Key Green Solutions customers find it easier to apply for the 2012 Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellence Awards
It can be a challenge to find data for electricity, natural gas, water, recycling, hazardous, regulated medical waste, solid waste, pharmaceuticals and universal waste. Now with Key Green Solutions sustainability management software, it is easy. Many of the Key Green Solutions customers are applying for the nationally recognized Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellence Awards. This awards application is the roadmap for how to strategically “go green” at your hospital.
Denise Choiniere, MS, RN, sustainability manager for University of Maryland Medical Center says, “got to tell you…your system is AWESOME for pulling data! This will not be nearly as painful as last year!”
Bob Demers, with St. Joseph Hospital (Covenant Health Systems) says, ”I used the software to pull my energy numbers for the awards application and it worked great!”
Alison Waske, Sustainable Business Officer with Metro Health says, “we used KGS to help identify the total amount and cost of many different waste streams needed to complete the Practice Greenhealth award application.”
Spectrum Health, a VHA member, successfully uses Key Green Solutions software to effectively track their nationally recognized sustainability program.
Whether its dashboards, scorecards, benchmarking or green house gas emissions, the sustainability leadership team at Spectrum Health views their all their hospitals using the Key Green Solutions Key Green Solutions LLC comprehensive sustainability management software.
Please click on the link to see the article found on VHA Alliance.
http://allianceonline.vha.com/feature/giving-back-to-the-environment
On November 10, 2011, the University of Maryland Medical Center and Denise Choiniere, sustainability manager, are winners of Maryland Hospitals for Healthy Environment (MD H2E) awards.
The first annual Nursing Leadership in Environmental Health Award was presented to Denise Choiniere, MS, RN, sustainability manager for University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC). Choiniere, the first full-time sustainability manager in a Maryland hospital, spearheaded a number of environmental initiatives at UMMC, including a hazardous pharmaceutical waste management program, Earth Day events, and a weekly farmers’ market.
UMMC won the Trailblazer award for focusing on lighting conservation and upgrades in the past year. The goals of their project included turning off lights when not in use and when daylight is sufficient in atriums and hallways, replace inefficient light bulbs with more efficient bulbs, and establish a baseline to monitor changes. Occupancy sensors and photo cell sensors were installed and lights in mechanical rooms were placed on automated controls.
Denise and her leadership team utilizes Key Green Solutions software suite to manage their sustainability program.
Key Green Solutions (KGS) exhibited at the Maryland Hospitals for Healthy Environment (MD H2E) conference on November 10, 2011.
MD H2E is a technical assistance and networking initiative that promotes environmental sustainability in health care. Participants include hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, research laboratories, and other ancillary health care providers in Maryland. Key Green Solutions LLC, the leading hospital sustainability management software company, is proud to be a partner with Carroll Hospital Center and University of Maryland Medical Center, two award winning hospitals with MD H2E.
Carroll Hospital Center receives 2011 Trailblazer Award from Maryland Hospitals for Healthy Environment
The award was given to recognize the hospital for its ability to effectively track and quantify its many environmentally friendly initiatives through the Key Green Solutions sustainability management web-based software. The software showed, for example, how the hospital’s natural gas consumption and red bag waste was reduced by 30 percent in 2011 due to the hospital’s green initiatives.
http://www.carrollhospitalcenter.org/news/?sid=1&nid=813
Jeff Burks, Sustainability Manager with Key Green Solutions, presented with Colleen Duerr, Green Chair with Carroll Hospital Center, at the conference. Please click on the link below for a copy of the presentation and see Session 2A: Sustainability Metrics.
http://nursing.umaryland.edu/events/environmental/2011/presentations.php
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 (KGS) welcomes Alyssa Antekeier, the new Relationship Coordinator, to the KGS team.
Key Green Solutions LLC, the leading hospital sustainability management software company, has hired Alyssa Antekeier as the Relationship Coordinator. Alyssa has a Bachelor of Science in Sustainable Business from Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She brings expertise and experience in healthcare and sustainability.
Jeff Burks, Relationship Manager for KGS, says, “We are very excited to have Alyssa join our team. Her strong background in sustainability and technology will benefit our customers greatly.”
Key Green Solutions, LLC (KGS) welcomes Covenant Health Systems, a leading Practice Green Health member and multi-year sustainability national award winner, as a customer.
Key Green Solutions LLC, the leading hospital sustainability management software company, announces today that it has entered into an agreement with Covenant Health Systems to provide exclusive Sustainability Management Software to Covenant and the sponsor hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living residences and other health and elder services throughout New England. The agreement represents an expansion for Key Green Solutions in the New England (Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania) market.
Nancy Mulvihill states,”Covenant knows that Key Green Solutions’ management software will help our system advance even further in our now seven-year journey in our commitment to be good stewards of the earth. By providing automation to our energy, water and waste data collection and analysis, dashboards, scorecards, program management tools and regulatory reporting (greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions calculation), we can achieve more and better understand areas for improvement.”