HCWH's co-founder Gary Cohen is a recipient of the prestigious Skoll Award. This video, chronicling the evolution of HCWH's work, premiered at the 2009 Skoll World Forum. enlarge video
Healthcare Clean Energy Exchange
The Healthcare Clean Energy Exchange is a program of Practice Greenhealth in partnership with Health Care Without Harm, Sustainable Step New England and World Energy. The program is available exclusively to members of Practice Greenhealth.
The Healthcare Clean Energy Exchange is designed to help healthcare leaders improve their energy practices and benefit from the deepest possible energy market intelligence. Members can participate in web-based reverse auctions that deliver:
- More competitive energy pricing and more strategic use of your procurement staff's expertise.
- New tools and better information to manage energy costs, and benchmarking against other Practice Greenhealth members.
- A Sarbanes-Oxley compliant, completely auditable, highly competitive and transparent energy procurement process.
Healthcare leaders can contain or reduce their energy costs, lock in more stable pricing, satisfy a greater percentage of their energy needs with clean energy resources, and lead the fight against climate change.
Key Resources
- Energy Impact Calculator
What are your facility's energy health impacts and costs? What can you do to improve them?
- Learn about Practice Greenhealth and the Healthcare Clean Energy Exchange
- Addressing Climate Change in the Health Care Setting: Opportunites for Action outlines seven steps health care systems can take to reduce their climate footprint while improving public health, and presents examples from around the world. (pdf)
- Healthy Hospitals, Healthy Planet, Healthy People: Addressing Climate Change in Health Care Settings aims at addressing the climate footprint of the health sector (pdf)
- Securing Proven Healthcare Energy Reduction for the Ecosystem: SPHERE by Premier (pdf)
- Green Guide for Health Care Report:
A Prescriptive Path to Energy Efficiency for Hospitals
download report (pdf) read abstract (pdf) - Healthcare Energy Project Guidebook, designed to provide decision makers with knowledge about improving energy efficiency (pdf)
- EPRI Report: Background, Trends, Issues, and Opportunities in Healthcare (pdf)
- EPRI Report: Energy Market Profiles: Hospital Buildings, Equipment, and Energy Use (requires login)
