Project: Hospital

This hospital had made significant improvements in its sustainability practices but had not yet inventoried its greenhouse gas emissions to identify where it needed to focus its sustainability efforts or how to communicate its corporate social responsibility successes.

Sustainable Business Consulting helped the hospital reduce its most significant sources of greenhouse gas impact by: 

• Baselining its impact through a greenhouse gas inventory
• Conducting a materiality assessment and analysis to uncover the most important areas it could address from a staff perspective 
• Collecting stories about internal sustainability wins
• Publishing a corporate social responsibility short report to be shared both internally and externally

The hospital is now able to communicate its corporate responsibility successes with qualitative and quantitative environmental data and has a better understanding of how to best engage its staff, doctors and nurses with the organization’s sustainability programming. 

The hospital was recently honored and recognized as a Practice Greenhealth leader by the industry’s dedicated non-profit for sustainability best practices.