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Solar agreement keeps Boston Medical Center on emissions-cutting track
Solar purchase agreement will offset 100 percent of medical center's electricity consumption
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Sustainability
Design
Wild garden puts nature's healing effects to the test
Patients at Walter Reed have access to a two-acre woodland area used to help treat PTSD
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Sustainability
Energy-efficiency success measured in millions saved, emissions reduced
Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin increased its Energy Star score from 13 to 55 with a few key actions
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Sustainability
Solar power plant will cut energy use, costs at Saint Francis Hospital
Hospital will buy power generated by solar plant at reduced rates
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Sustainability
Seattle Children's Bellevue Clinic's green roof pays dividends
Improved energy efficiency and air quality are just a few benefits of the hospital's new roof
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Sustainability
Hospitals take a 'waste not, want not' approach to food operations
HealthPartners, Providence Health and others cut down on unnecessary food expenditures
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Sustainability
A hospital perspective on sustainable operations
Gundersen executive talks about 'green' challenges and strategies
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Energy efficiency
LED lighting improves safety, cuts energy in hospital parking garage
Reston Hospital Center improves lighting, cuts costs with one simple change
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Sustainability
New software tool calculates overall costs of green products
Practice Greenhealth unveils calculator to determine long-term costs of health care equipment
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Sustainability
Cleveland Clinic's green revolving fund delivers results
Health system pays for lighting retrofit, building automation upgrade largely with green fund
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