Covenant receives award for environmental sustainability

Covenant Medical Center & Covenant Children’s each received the Partner for Change award from Practice Greenhealth, the nation’s leading organization dedicated to environmental sustainability in health care.

“Sustainability is at the heart of our healing mission,” said Mike Siwek, Covenant Health executive director real estate strategy and operations. “We’re proud to share that our sustainability strategies have won us a national award.”

The Greenhealth Partner for Change Award recognizes superior performance in environmental sustainability, covering a range of different sustainability programs and activities. Winners have also made substantive progress on mercury elimination.

In health care, sustainability means looking at how operations affect the health and safety of the environment as well as the health of patients, staff, visitors and local community Siwek said.

Strategies to address sustainability at the organization include minimizing and recycling waste, addressing chemicals of concern, lowering energy and water consumption, sourcing food and products sustainably, and establishing environmentally preferable purchasing criteria.

In recent years, great strides have been made toward reducing the impact on the environment.

We have done continuous research on the waste process, food service operations, and how to operate better to keep a healthy environment.

A particular win was discovering a process Covenant Medical Center can use to recycle lab solvents, where Covenant Children’s sends their solvents to Covenant Medical Center for recycling.

This award recognizes the efforts for change and reflects the mission that supports the idea that a healthy environment is vitally important for healthy people.

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