Practice Greenhealth is the nation’s leading organization dedicated to environmental sustainability in health care. Providence Swedish is proud to be recognized for our excellence and growth in sustainable health care practices across the Central Puget Sound.
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Sustainability is core to our mission, and we’re proud to share that our environmental stewardship efforts have earned 11 Practice Greenhealth awards for our Providence Swedish facilities across the Central Puget Sound. Practice Greenhealth is the nation’s leading organization dedicated to environmental sustainability in health care. Sustainability means looking at how our operations effect the health and safety of our environment as well as the health of our patients, staff, visitors, and local community. We are proud to share that three Providence Swedish campuses – Cherry Hill, First Hill and Issaquah – were presented with Practice Greenhealth’s Top 25 Environmental Excellence awards, the organization’s highest honor for hospitals leading in sustainability performance and demonstrating comprehensive sustainability programs inherent to organizational culture. Our First Hill and Issaquah campuses were also presented with Circles of Excellence awards, identifying these campuses as having top scoring programs for each sustainability category. We received these awards for the categories of Chemicals, Water, Greening the OR and Energy. Swedish Ballard received the Emerald award. Providence Swedish Edmonds and Providence Centralia, Providence St. Peter, and Providence Regional Medical Center Everett also received awards, bringing the grand total of Greenhealth awards for Providence Swedish campuses across the Puget Sound up to 16. At Providence Swedish, we know sustainability is essential to better care for our patients, communities, and planet. In recent years, we have made great strides toward reducing our impact on the environment, and we are committed to doing even more. We are working hard to reduce pollution, build efficiencies, prepare for disruptions to health in our warming world, and save tens of millions of dollars annually, while caring for our common home. This award is a testament to the contributions of your ministry toward our environmental stewardship commitments. Providence Swedish's awards across Central Puget Sound: Swedish First Hill – Top 25 hospitals in Environmental Excellence and three Circles of Excellence awards for Chemicals, Water and Greening the OR. Swedish Cherry Hill - Top 25 hospitals in Environmental Excellence. Swedish Edmonds - Top 25 hospitals in Environmental Excellence Swedish Issaquah - Top 25 hospitals in Environmental Excellence and four Circles of Excellence awards for Chemicals, Water, Greening the OR and Energy. Swedish Ballard - The Greenhealth Emerald Award.
Award descriptions: The Top 25 Award is Practice Greenhealth’s highest honor, awarded to hospitals leading in sustainability performance and demonstrating comprehensive sustainability programs inherent to organizational culture. The Circles of Excellence Award celebrates hospitals who have not only earned an award for all-around sustainability achievement but have also been identified as the top scoring programs for each sustainability category. The Greenhealth Emerald Award recognizes outstanding hospitals from within the Partner for Change applicants. This competitive award recognizes the top 20 percent of applicants and is focused on advanced sustainability programs and exemplary scores in a range of categories. The Greening the Operating Room Recognition honors facilities that have made substantial progress in reducing the impact of the surgical environment.
About Providence Swedish Providence Swedish has served the Puget Sound region since the first Providence hospital opened in Seattle in 1877 and the first Swedish hospital opened in 1910. The two organizations affiliated in 2012 and today comprise the largest health care delivery system in Western Washington, with 22,000 caregivers, eight hospitals and 244 clinics throughout Western Washington – from Everett to Centralia. A not-for-profit family of organizations, Providence Swedish provides more than $545 million in community benefit in the Puget Sound region each year. The health system offers a comprehensive range of services and specialty and subspecialty care in a number of clinical areas, including cancer, cardiovascular health, neurosciences, orthopedics, digestive health and women’s and children’s care. |
