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80 Sign up for the COMPLIMENTARY Becker's Hospital Review CEO Report & CFO Report E-Weeklies at www.BeckersHospitalReview.com or call (800) 417-2035 Martha's Vineyard Hospital (Oak Bluffs, Mass.). Martha's Vineyard Hospital is a 25-bed critical access hospital located on the island of Martha's Vineyard. In 2011, the facility received LEED Gold certification — the only acute-care facility in Massachusetts to achieve that high of a certification. MVH, an affiliate of Boston-based Partners HealthCare, incorporated many green features into its design, such as bio-retention areas for water runoff, computer-monitored energy performance and 200 energy-producing solar panels. McLaren Northern Michigan (Petoskey). For five consecutive years, the 202-bed McLaren Northern Michigan has been named to Practice Greenhealth's Environmental Leadership Circle, the highest honor Practice Greenhealth awards every year. McLaren Northern Michigan has committed to a mercury-free healthcare environment, recycles 25 percent of its total waste stream and is a leader in its local community for pollution prevention programs. McLaren Northern Michigan's environmental sustainability team spearheads many of the organization's green efforts. Medical Center of the Rockies (Loveland, Colo.). In 2009, two years after opening, the 166-bed Medical Center of the Rockies became the second hospital in the country to earn LEED Gold certification. On average, Medical Center of the Rockies uses 35 percent less energy than other similarly sized hospitals. Architects also emphasized natural lighting, advanced heating and cooling systems and water conservation features at the hospital, which is part of University of Colorado Health based in Fort Collins. Metro Health Hospital (Wyoming, Mich.). Green practices have been a mainstay at the 208-bed, LEED-certified Metro Health Hospital for more than a decade. In 2000, the hospital's board of directors outlined "integrating green development strategies" as one of the hospital's primary principles. Since then, the hospital has aggressively pursued that goal. For example, Metro Health Hospital cut its water use by 43,000 gallons and decreased chemical use by 90 percent after it converted to a microfiber mop system. MetroWest Medical Center (Framingham, Mass). Sustainability practices at MetroWest Medical Center, an organization with two hospital campuses and part of Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanguard Health Systems, revolve around its Go Green Committee. Amy Collins, MD, an emergency medicine physician at MetroWest, founded MetroWest's Go Green Committee in 2007, and she also serves as a healthcare sustainability consultant for Vanguard and is a steering committee member for the Healthier Hospitals Initiative. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (New York City). NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is currently the largest single hospital in the New York metropolitan region, and the organization knows that comes with a certain carbon shadow. Under the hospital's sustainability program, NYPgreen, NewYorkPresbyterian has focused on waste minimization through metal, plastic and paper recycling, ecologically safe disposal of hazardous bio-waste, farmers markets and a hybrid vehicle project. NewYork-Presbyterian has received several awards from the EPA's Energy Star program as well as New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's PlaNYC Hospital Carbon Challenge, which aims to reduce hospital greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2018. North Shore University Hospital (Manhasset, N.Y.). North Shore University Hospital is an 806-bed teaching hub within Manhasset-based North Shore-LIJ Health System. On the hospital's third floor rests The Katz Women's Hospital — a LEED Platinum facility. In July, The Katz Women's Hospital's post-partum unit, on North Shore University Hospital's fourth floor, also earned LEED Platinum certification from the USGBC. North Shore University Hospital has become an archetype for North Shore-LIJ's "sustainability and social responsibility" mission, which it adopted in 2010. Under that mission, North Shore-LIJ partnered with the EPA to establish far-reaching, environmentally responsible programs and business practices at its facilities. Palomar Medical Center (Escondido, Calif.). The 11-story, 288-bed Palomar Medical Center — part of Palomar Health — opened in August 2012 after roughly eight years of planning around evidence-based sustainable design. Courtyards, natural light, a 1.5-acre green roof, permeating LED lights and sustainable materials are all features of the new hospital. Palomar's sustainability department is currently in the process of educating other hospital professionals on how to build and operate similar "hospitals of the future." Providence Newberg (Ore.) Medical Center. When the 40-bed Providence Newberg Medical Center opened in June 2006, it became the new "gold" standard for every green hospital to come thereafter. Providence Newberg, part of Renton, Wash.-based Providence Health & Services, was the first hospital in the nation to earn LEED Gold certification. It also was the first hospital to run completely on renewable energy, including a local clean wind program, which reduced carbon dioxide emissions by the equivalent of 273 cars. Ridgeview Medical Center (Waconia, Minn.). For the past seven years, Ridgeview Medical Center has been named to Practice Greenhealth's Environmental Leadership Circle — an accomplishment no other hospital in Minnesota has attained. The 109-bed, independent hospital was a pioneer in the healthcare environmental field, as it adopted a sustainability pledge in 2001 to improve public health. Pollution prevention has been at the heart of Ridgeview's goals, as it won a Governor's Award in 2003 for regulating red bag waste, concentrating cleaners and applying other pollution prevention strategies. Rockingham Memorial Hospital (Harrisonburg, Va.). The new Rockingham Memorial Hospital, a 238-bed community hospital within RMH Healthcare and Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Healthcare, opened in June 2010. It became the first LEED Gold facility in Virginia that same year. Rockingham Memorial Hospital's green features include reuse of a sustainable site, water efficient appliances and plants, and high indoor environmental air quality. The hospital also uses methane gas, a byproduct of its county's landfill, as one energy source for its boilers. Rush University Medical Center (Chicago). On Jan. 9, 2012, Rush University Medical Center opened its 14-story hospital in the Near West Side of Chicago, becoming one of the greenest hospitals in the city. Rush's 304-bed hospital incorporated several unique, sustainable designs — including patient care floors that improved workflow, recycled steel and concrete, passive solar light and environmentally friendly housekeeping and landscaping — earning LEED Gold certification. Rush also has green rooftops to capture water and reduce temperatures inside the main building naturally. Sacred Heart Hospital (Eau Claire, Wis.). In a 2012 interview with Becker's Hospital Review, Sacred Heart Hospital President and CEO Julie Manas said of the hospital's environmental goals: "This has been a staff-driven initiative from the start. It's something that has been ingrained in who we are for many years, and it speaks well for our Franciscan background that we are good stewards of the resources we've been given." The hospital, part of Springfield, Ill.-based Hospital Sisters Health System, has reduced its fossil fuel use by 5 percent through energy savings and alternative energy initiatives. Sinai Hospital (Baltimore). Sinai Hospital is the 502-bed teaching hospital of LifeBridge Health. Sinai Hospital has been at the forefront of LifeBridge's "Freedom to Be Green Initiative." Electric car charging stations, cafeteria food composting, widespread recycling programs and adoption of LED lights in hallways are some of the hospital's undertakings. One of Sinai Hospital's leading initiatives is greening the operating room, where it has recycled an average of 675 pounds of blue wrap every month since September 2008. Spectrum Health Blodgett Hospital (Grand Rapids, Mich.). Over the past several years, sustainability programs and efforts have flourished across Spectrum Health, particularly within its Blodgett Hospital. For ex-

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