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 LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR
Shining like stars
The results are in, and they’re astounding. This year, there are 195 recipients of H2E Awards. This is a groundbreaking number – more than double the number of last year’s winners – and it represents a landmark achievement of which we should all be proud. Environmentally sustainable health care is truly becoming mainstream, and H2E Partners and Champions are at the forefront of this growing trend.
Please join me in congratulating this year’s H2E Award winners and thanking them for setting the standard for making the delivery of health care safer and healthier for everyone. Learn more about those who received national acclaim for their pioneering environmental success this year on our website. And please join us at the Awards Ceremony in Seattle on April 18!
– Laura Brannen, Director, H2E
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Environmental Leaders Receive Nation’s Top Honor
Environmental Leadership Awards are like the Oscars for health care’s environmental leaders. Learn who won – and why – below.
 The H2E Environmental Leadership Award is the premier national recognition of outstanding achievement in environmental innovation in health care. This year, an astounding fourteen facilities earned this honor. Together, their incredible achievements include:
• Maintaining a phenomenal 46% recycling rate
• Recycling 1669.8 tons of waste, including 26,377 fluorescent light bulbs, 16,050 lbs of ballasts and 10,286 lbs of batteries
• Undertaking an energy efficient lighting retrofit that will save the facility $200,000 annually
• Buying recycled carpeting, chlorine-free and low VOC flooring and wall coverings, and low VOC paints
• Investing in reusable containers for sterilization of operating room instruments, reducing costs by over $100,000 per year
• Using local and renewable building materials, incorporating natural daylighting into building design, and recycling 70% of the construction and demolition materials during the construction of a new facility
• Redistributing 5 tons of furniture and other equipment through the organization in 2005, eliminating the need for new purchases
• Developing a Food and Nutrition Vision Statement that affirms the facility’s commitment to providing environmentally sustainable and locally grown food for its patients and staff
• Supporting commute alternatives including ride shares, discounts on public transportation, bike tune-ups and tips, and the formation of the “Congestion Relief Alliance”
For these incredible achievements and many more, the H2E Environmental Leadership Award is presented to the following facilities in 2006:
- Affinity Health System (AHS) – Appleton, WI
- Baystate Health – Springfield, MA
- Borgess Medical Center – Kalamazoo, MI
- Boulder Community Hospital – Boulder, CO
- Bronson Methodist Hospital (2003, 2004, 2005 winner) – Kalamazoo, MI
- Dominican Hospital CHW – Santa Cruz, CA
- Kaiser Permananete Colorado Region – Aurora, CO
- Legacy Health System – Portland, OR
- Mercy Hospital - Mercy Health System – Janesville, WI
- Mills-Peninsula Health Services – Burlingame, CA
- Sparrow Health System (2005 winner) – Lansing, MI
- St. Joseph ’s Medical Center – Stockton, CA
- University of Michigan Hospitals & Health Centers (2002, 2004, 2005 winner) – Ann Arbor, MI
- W.A. Foote Health System (2005 winner) – Jackson, MI
Meet these and other 2006 H2E Award winners at the H2E Awards Ceremony on April 18 in Seattle. Learn how to replicate award-winning programs at the H2E Workshops preceding the ceremony, and stay for the CleanMed conference April 19-20. Register today at www.cleanmed.org.
To see the full list of this year’s 195 H2E Award winners, and to learn how to apply for a 2007 H2E Award, click here.
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April Teleconferences
 This month H2E is hosting four free teleconferences for H2E Partners and Champions:
• April 7th: Water Conservation Strategies
(part of the Green Guide for Health Care Series)
• April 14th: Red Bag Reduction 101 – How to reduce your generate rate and save money!
• April 21st : Intro to H2E and Data Collection
• April 28th : How to Win a Making Medicine Mercury Free Award
For more information and to register, see www.h2e-online.org.
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H2E State Programs: Oregon
 Congratulations to Oregon H2E Award winners: Legacy Health System, Kaiser Permanente Northwest Region, Providence St. Vincent Medical Center, Providence Newberg Hospital, Providence Milwaukie Hospital and Providence Portland Medical Center!
Over the past five years these hospitals and many others in Oregon have worked within their facilities and collaboratively to make health care more environmentally sustainable through initiatives such as eliminating mercury, building green hospitals, and minimizing waste. The Oregon H2E Network, coordinated by the Oregon Center for Environmental Health, connects health care facilities through an email listserv with over 140 participants and quarterly pollution prevention roundtable meetings that provide a forum for hospitals to learn about issues, share resources, identify actions and develop working groups. Current projects workgroups are addressing include:
- Healthy Food in Health Care
- Responsible E-Waste Recycling Collaborative
- Rural Hospitals Plastics Recycling Pilot
To learn more about OR H2E activities, contact Neha Patel, Oregon Center for Environmental Health at 503-233-1510 or neha@oregon-health.org. For more information on H2E’s State programs, contact Cecilia DeLoach, H2E State Partnership Program Coordinator at 800-727-4179, or cecilia.deloach@h2e-online.org.
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H2E Gets a Makeover
 As part of our commitment to continually improve the information and resources H2E provides to the health care sector, we are launching a new website with an updated look and improved functionality on Wednesday, April 5. Exciting new features include:
- A searchable library of resources - Now all H2E resources are always at your fingertips.
- A “one stop shop” - Now find both pollution prevention AND compliance assistance information seamlessly integrated on one site!
- New & improved design - New easy site navigation and design clearly help you quickly find the resources you need.
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