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Building a healthier tomorrow Innovative green practices lead the way to better health
Greener environment, healthier members Healthy environments are essential to providing a total health experience. As
a nationally recognized leader in green health care, we’ve been putting green
building standards and strategies into practice for years. Here are some of the
steps we’re currently taking to help reduce our carbon footprint, control costs,
and offer members a healthier, more natural environment for care—now and well
into the future.
Conserving and creating energy
Our medical centers are built with the health of members and the environment in
mind—rubber floors prevent slips and don’t require harsh cleansers, carpets are
free of toxic polyvinyl chloride, and drought-resistant plants help us save millions
of gallons of water. And we’re using renewable and clean energy sources to further
reduce our carbon footprint:
• Solar panels at 15 of our facilities will produce an average of 12% of the facilities’ power—enough electricity to power 1,900 homes a year
• By generating two megawatts of power onsite at several medical centers, we’re improving energy consumption by 34% and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by nearly half
• New lighting systems and heat-reducing window-film installations help us save roughly $1 million each year in energy costs
Green at every level
Designing environmentally friendly hospitals and medical facilities is only part of
the picture. Being green extends to the work we do at every level, every day:
• Our electronic health record—Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect®—has eliminated 2 million pounds of paper and 68 tons of X-ray film, and lowered the gasoline consumption of our members by 3 million gallons a year
• Converting from wet-process X-ray equipment to digital imaging machines saves 130 million gallons of water every year
Award-winning efforts
In 2011, Practice Greenhealth
awarded 17 Environmental
Excellence Awards to
Kaiser Permanente facilities
for outstanding achievements
in reducing waste, eliminating
mercury, and improving
environmental performance.
Practice Greenhealth provides
solutions for the health care
industry to create safer and
greener workplaces and
communities.
When our Modesto Medical
Center opened in 2008, it
was lauded as one of the
greenest health care facilities
in North America.
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A better future for our communities
Creating green environments for our members also helps the communities we
serve. In addition to using green building and care practices, we’re:
• Partnering with local growers to support sustainable agriculture while providing
fresh meals to patients at 21 of our Northern California hospitals
• Helping the community eat well and make good food choices by holding
farmers’ markets at more than 30 Kaiser Permanente facilities
• Recycling electronic waste with an annual six-day collection of e-waste at
20 Kaiser Permanente sites
To learn more about our green efforts, visit kp.org/green or contact your
Kaiser Permanente representative.
The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency’s
Environmental Achievement
Award recognized
Kaiser Permanente for
our commitment to
environmental protection.
Information in this publication was accurate at the time of production. However, details may have changed since our release date. For the most current information, contact your sales executive or account manager.
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