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Healthcare: Pollution Prevention & Best Management Practices
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Index of Topics
- Sustainable Hospital Project
- Best Management Practices
- Energy
- Environmental Management Systems
- Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP)
- Green Buildings
- Greenscapes
- Pollution Prevention
- Transportation
- Waste Management
- Water Conservation
Sustainable
Hospitals 
Support for selecting products and work practices
EPA New England Hospital Environmental Assessment Template - An Environmental Compliance & Pollution Prevention Tool (8 pp., 281 KB, about PDF)
Best Management Practices Catalog for Colleges & Universities
- E2C Quick Reference Guide, September 2006 (3 pp., 447 KB, about
PDF)
- E2C Recognition Application (9 pp., 84 KB, about
PDF)
EPA's Combined Heat and Power Partnership (EPA HQ)
Combined Heat and Power (CHP) is an efficient, clean, and reliable approach to generating power and thermal energy from a single fuel source. By installing a CHP system designed to meet the thermal and electrical base loads of a facility, CHP can increase operational efficiency and decrease energy costs, while reducing emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.
This voluntary program seeks to reduce the environmental impact of power generation by promoting the use of CHP. The Partnership works closely with energy users, the CHP industry, state and local governments, and other stakeholders to support the development of new projects and to promote their energy, environmental, and economic benefits. The Partnership offers a variety of tools and services designed to facilitate and promote the development of CHP projects.
Massachusetts Technology Collaborative
The state's development agency for renewable energy and the innovation
economy funds projects and studies in a range of areas, including
green buildings, green power, and solar energy.
Department of Energy – Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy – Industrial Technologies Program
The Industrial Technologies Program works with U.S. industry to improve industrial energy efficiency and environmental performance. Find software tools (pumps, motors, fans, steam systems, process heaters), training and other useful information.
EnergyPlus Version 2.0
The US Department of Energy has released the newest version of EnergyPlus. Key new features include green roofs, phase-change materials, and enhanced building controls.
Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency (DSIRE)
DSIRE is a comprehensive source of information on state, local, utility, and federal incentives that promote renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Environmental Management Systems
Health
Care Guide to Pollution Prevention Implementation through Environmental
Management Systems, Draft 2nd Edition, 2005, Kentucky Pollution
Prevention Center
The KPPC has this document on CD-ROM and it can be obtained free by contacting KPPC toll-free at (800) 334-8635, extension 8520965, direct at (502) 852-0965 or by email to INFO@kppc.org
College &
University Environmental Management System Guide
(112 pp., 1.4
MB, about
PDF)
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP)
EPA Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Program (EPA HQ)
Find a database of “green” procurement language, EPP publications, case studies, policy documents, tip sheets, and federal EPP links on the Internet.
H2E, EPP
Find the H2E 10-step guide to EPP.
H2E, Green Cleaning
Find the H2E 10-step guide to Green Cleaning Implementation.
ENERGY STAR Purchasing & Procurement
Find a database of energy efficient products, energy savings calculators, purchasing specifications, and a vendor locator.
Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool
"EPEAT" is a procurement tool to help institutional purchasers in the public and private sectors evaluate, compare and select desktop computers, notebooks and monitors based on their environmental attributes (including energy efficiency).
Green Chemical Alternatives Wizard
This web-based tool provides information on chemical alternatives for some of the most commonly used hazardous solvents and substances in research laboratories.
Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability (BEES) version 4.0
The tool updates data on more than 200 products and adds 30 new products for review. It also offers users the option of a new set of consensus weights for scoring the environmental impact of individual building products, based on a BEES stakeholder panel convened last year.
Pharos Project
Developing a framework for comparing products.
EPA New England Green Buildings
Green Guide for Health Care
This toolkit provides guidance for integrating enhanced environmental health principles and practices into the planning, design, construction, operations and maintenance of healthcare facilities. The Green Guide for Health Care is available as a free download (registration required).
U.S. Green Building Council
This broad coalition from the construction industry, financial sector, government, and public interest organizations develops and promotes green building principles.
Healthy Building Network
Find information on green building topics specific to the healthcare sector
Center for Health Design
Through research, education, advocacy and technical assistance, the Center supports healthcare and design professionals in their efforts to improve the quality of healthcare through evidence-based building design.
Case Studies
- Green
Healthcare Construction Case Studies, September 29, 2005 (10 pp., 65 KB, about
PDF)
This 10 page document contains 15 hospital green building case studies including - Exhibition
of Architecture for Environmental Health (17 pp., 575 KB, about
PDF)
Report on the poster session of green healthcare construction projects presented at CleanMed 2004. It includes case studies on 12 hospital projects. - Greening
of Michigan’s VA Hospitals (2 pp., 74 KB, about
PDF)
Several Michigan Veteran Affair (VA) hospitals have implemented programs designed to benefit the state’s environment. - Success
Stories, Betterbricks Case Studies
Betterbricks is an Initiative of the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance - New York State Energy and
Research Development Authority
- New
York-Presbyterian Hospital
(1 p., 163 KB, about PDF) - Presbyterian
Home and Services, New Hartford, NY (1 p. , 130 KB, about
PDF)
- New
York-Presbyterian Hospital
- Case
Studies - Healthcare, Portland Cement Association
Includes information about Boulder Community Foothills Hospital and its LEED certification. - Ministry
for the Environment, Sustainable Building in New Zealand, Waitakere
Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand
Building Healthy Hospitals: Top 5 Green Building Strategies for Healthcare (EPA Region 9)
EPA Region 9 collaborated with green building experts from across the United States as part of its "Building Healthy Hosptials" project. For an overview of the project and to access the case studies for each of the 5 Top Green Building Strategies for Healthcare: Energy Efficiency—Integrated Design and HVAC Systems, Process Water Efficiency, Sustainable Flooring Material Selection, Indoor Air Quality: Materials Selection, and Lighting Efficiency—Optimizing Artificial and Natural Lighting
Environmentally
Beneficial Landscaping (EPA HQ)
Greenscaping can save you money and prevent pollution.
Greenscapes Tools (EPA HQ)
Find downloadable on-line calculators that allow you to compare costs (e.g. between environmentally preferable methods, using virgin materials). The calculators demonstrate that these activities are often cost competitive and provide numerous environmental benefits. They can aid in your decision making and implementation of more sustainable landscape design, construction, and operations and maintenance.
Joint
Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)
Environmental Compliance and Improvement Guide
Guide relates each JCAHO Element of Performance to specific federal
regulations, to help facilities achieve compliance with both. The
Guide also suggests steps that facilities can take to encourage
environmental performance improvements.
Meeting
JCAHO Standards with Pollution Prevention
Information on how health care facilities can use pollution prevention
to meet JCAHO’s performance improvement standards.
New England's Best Workplace for Commuters Campaign
Reduce traffic congestion, improve air quality and make commuting less stressful
and costly
SmartWay Transport Partnership, US EPA
A voluntary partnership between various freight industry sectors and EPA that establishes incentives for fuel efficiency improvements and greenhouse gas emissions reductions
SmartWay Transport Partnership Program: Reduce Pollution from Your Vendors' Shipping Operations, Health Care Without Harm Fact Sheet, April 2006 (2 pp., 83 KB, about PDF)
Fact sheet includes suggested RFP specification or contract language and a sample letter for purchasers to send to existing vendors to encourage them to join EPA’s SmartWay Transport Partnership Program
Clean Construction USA, US EPA
Find case studies on some diesel engine emission reduction efforts incorporated in different construction projects. Includes the Dana-Farber Yawkey Center for Cancer Care Case study with a Clean Diesel Strategy including Diesel Oxidation Catalysts (DOCs) and ultra low sulfur diesel (ULSD) fuel. Case study also includes a link to sample contract language.
Mercury
Assessment Worksheet
To help organizations inventory their mercury-containing devices
and calculate their mercury content. Also includes a 2-page how-to-manual
(click on TOOLKIT INSTRUCTIONS at bottom of spreadsheet).
Reuse in New England
A guide to donation opportunities for businesses, local governments, and residents
to promote reuse over traditional solid waste disposal of materials that
still have "use."
Don’t miss opportunities for medical equipment, devices and supplies
Energy Star Water Tracking System
By tracking water use alongside energy use, you can better understand how these resources relate to one another, make integrated management decisions that increase overall efficiency, and verify savings from improvement projects in both energy and water systems. Organizations that manage water and energy performance together can take advantage of this relationship to create greener, more sustainable buildings.
Massachusetts
Water Resources Authority Water Efficiency & Management for
Hospitals
EPA Water Use Efficiency (EPA HQ)