Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 54.91
Liaison Andy Mitchell
Submission Date July 17, 2018
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

University of Illinois Chicago
IN-6: Hospital Network

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.50 / 0.50 Cynthia Klein-Banai
Associate Chancellor for Sustainability
Office of Sustainability
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Is the institution’s affiliated healthcare facility currently a member of a member of the Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Network?:
No

Is the institution’s affiliated healthcare facility currently a member of Healthier Hospitals Initiative / Practice Greenhealth?:
Yes

A brief description of the healthcare facility’s sustainability initiatives:

The University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System major accomplishments include the resurrection of the hospital’s interdisciplinary Green Team and commitment from senior leadership; installation of refillable pour stations throughout the hospital; saline bottle recycling program piloted in the OR, food recovery initiatives; replacing floor strippers with water; committed to achieving LEED Gold for new Ambulatory Surgery and Care building

They were among the winners of Practicing Green Health Partner for Change award for CY 2017.


The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

From: Hermine Levey Weston [mailto:hleveyweston@practicegreenhealth.org]
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2018 10:19 AM
To: Peters, Katherine
Subject: RE: Question for Sustainability Report

One more point. Please inform your team that the enrollees on that hot linked website is quite outdated and not relevant any longer. The Healthier Hospitals Initiative pre-dates the connection that your hospital has with Practice Greenhealth and this initiative is rolled into membership benefits.
U of I is indeed a member of Practice Greenhealth. The Practice Greenhealth website doesn’t list current members as it’s been taxing to keep up with this task and it’s often outdated. I didn’t realize that I can see an outdated list but that members actually can’t see it. Now I understand Cindy was looking at the Healthier Hospitals site. Now it makes sense to me.
I don’t know what your STARS program is but if you require validation of being a member of a sustainability organization, I am happy to write a separate message to anyone who needs this to be verified.
Kind regards,
Hermine

Hermine Levey Weston, RN MBA
Member Engagement Manager
Practice Greenhealth
Tel 888 521 6664
www.Practicegreenhealth.org


From: Hermine Levey Weston [mailto:hleveyweston@practicegreenhealth.org]
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2018 10:19 AM
To: Peters, Katherine
Subject: RE: Question for Sustainability Report

One more point. Please inform your team that the enrollees on that hot linked website is quite outdated and not relevant any longer. The Healthier Hospitals Initiative pre-dates the connection that your hospital has with Practice Greenhealth and this initiative is rolled into membership benefits.
U of I is indeed a member of Practice Greenhealth. The Practice Greenhealth website doesn’t list current members as it’s been taxing to keep up with this task and it’s often outdated. I didn’t realize that I can see an outdated list but that members actually can’t see it. Now I understand Cindy was looking at the Healthier Hospitals site. Now it makes sense to me.
I don’t know what your STARS program is but if you require validation of being a member of a sustainability organization, I am happy to write a separate message to anyone who needs this to be verified.
Kind regards,
Hermine

Hermine Levey Weston, RN MBA
Member Engagement Manager
Practice Greenhealth
Tel 888 521 6664
www.Practicegreenhealth.org

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