HealthPartners wins national honors for environmental excellence

HealthPartners, a longtime leader in health care sustainability, recently received 18 sustainability awards from Practice Greenhealth, the nation's leading organization dedicated to environmental stewardship in health care. This is the 11th consecutive year HealthPartners has earned the System for Change award, which recognizes health systems that are setting sustainability goals, tracking performance data and supporting organizational learning.

"As one of the largest health care organizations in the region, we recognize that environmental stewardship is essential to our mission of improving health," said Andrea Walsh, president and CEO of HealthPartners. "This recognition reflects our deep commitment to sustainability and the meaningful progress our teams are making to protect the health of future generations."

Additionally, two HealthPartners hospitals - Hudson Hospital & Clinic and Regions Hospital - received Top 25 Environmental Excellence awards, Practice Greenhealth's highest honor for hospitals. The award recognizes facilities that are leading the industry in sustainability performance by prioritizing sustainability programs and illustrating that environmental excellence is rooted in their culture.

Other awards included:

• Amery Hospital & Clinic: Greenhealth Emerald Award; Circle of Excellence in Waste
• Hudson Hospital & Clinic: Circle of Excellence in Waste
• Hutchinson Health: Greenhealth Emerald Award; Circle of Excellence in Waste
• Lakeview Hospital: Greenhealth Emerald Award
• Methodist Hospital: Greenhealth Emerald Award; Circle of Excellence in Waste
• Olivia Hospital & Clinic: Greenhealth Emerald Award; Circle of Excellence in Waste
• Regions Hospital: Circles of Excellence awards in Energy, Food and Greening the Operating Room
• Westfields Hospital & Clinic: Greenhealth Emerald Award; Circle of Excellence in Waste