Practice Greenhealth has honored organizations excelling at making health care more environmentally friendly.
Ministry organizations were among those that received Environmental Excellence Awards at a ceremony at CleanMed in May in Dallas. Practice Greenhealth is an organization promoting environmental sustainability in health care, and CleanMed is a conference that Practice Greenhealth presents each year.
This year's award recipients included these ministry providers:
System for Change Award
For excellence in sustainability
- Bon Secours Health System, Marriottsville, Md.
- Hospital Sisters Health System, Springfield, Ill.
Top 25 Environmental Excellence Award
For facilities leading in innovation in environmentalism
- Bon Secours St. Mary's Hospital, Richmond, Va.
- St. Francis Eastside, Greenville, S.C.
Greenhealth Emerald Award
For facilities with top green programs and with superior scores on assessments conducted by Practice Greenhealth
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Bon Secours DePaul Medical Center, Norfolk, Va.
- Bon Secours Maryview Medical Center, Portsmouth, Va.
- Bon Secours Richmond Community Hospital, Richmond, Va.
- California Hospital Medical Center, Los Angeles
- Dominican Hospital, Santa Cruz, Calif.
- HSHS St. Mary's Hospital Medical Center, Green Bay, Wis.
- Memorial Regional Medical Center, Mechanicsville, Va.
- MI Nursing/Restorative Center, Lawrence, Mass.
- Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital, Ashland, Ky.
- St. Francis Downtown, Greenville, S.C.
- St. Francis Medical Center, Midlothian, Va.
Partner for Change
For facilities with superior sustainability performance
- Bon Secours Hospital, Baltimore
- Bon Secours Mary Immaculate Hospital, Newport News, Va.
- Borgess Medical Center, Kalamazoo, Mich.
- Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati
- HSHS Sacred Heart Hospital, Eau Claire, Wis.
- HSHS St. Anthony's Memorial Hospital, Effingham, Ill.
- HSHS St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Belleville, Ill.
- HSHS St. Francis Hospital, Litchfield, Ill.
- HSHS St. John's Hospital, Springfield, Ill.
- HSHS St. Joseph's Hospital, Chippewa Falls, Wis.
- HSHS St. Mary's Hospital, Decatur, Ill.
- HSHS St. Nicholas Hospital, Sheboygan, Wis.
- HSHS St. Vincent Hospital, Green Bay, Wis.
- Mercy General Hospital, Sacramento, Calif.
- Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital, Hood River, Ore.
- Providence Medford Medical Center, Medford, Ore.
- Providence Milwaukie Hospital, Milwaukie, Ore.
- Providence Newberg Medical Center, Newberg, Ore.
- Providence Portland Medical Center, Portland, Ore.
- Providence Seaside Hospital, Seaside, Ore.
- Providence St. Vincent Medical Center, Portland, Ore.
- Providence Willamette Falls Medical Center, Oregon City, Ore.
- Schervier Nursing Care Center, Bronx, N.Y.
- Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital, Grass Valley, Calif.
- St. Andre Health Care, Biddeford, Maine
- St. Cloud Hospital, St. Cloud, Minn.
- St. Joseph Hospital, Bangor, Maine
- St. Joseph Healthcare, Nashua, N.H.
- St. Joseph Manor Health Care, Brockton, Mass.
- St. Joseph's Medical Center, Stockton, Calif.
- St. Mary Health Care Center, Worcester, Mass.
- St. Mary's Health System, Lewiston, Maine
- St. Mary's Villa, Elmhurst Township, Pa.
- St. Patrick Hospital, Missoula, Mont.
- Youville Place, Lexington, Mass.
A full list of recipients is available at: practicegreenhealth.org/awards.
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