Session Description

Is your organization applying for an Environmental Excellence award? Considering applying for the first time? This sharing call is designed to answer your toughest (and most basic) awards questions.

Whether just getting started or leading the way, there is an award for your clinic, hospital or other health care organization. This call will provides a tour of the online system and is designed for health care facility members. This call will be recorded and archived and will be available on Greenhealth Academy.

Learning Objectives

This session will:

• Provide an overview of the 2016 Awards system and highlight new user enhancements.
• Outline the application period and submission deadlines.
• Assist you in identifying the right award application for your organization.
• Answer your questions about data submission.
• Introduce the people, tools and resources that can assist you in completing an application.

Presenters

Cecilia DeLoach Lynn, Director of Sector Performance and Recognition, Practice Greenhealth, cdeloach@practicegreenhealth.org

Cecilia's role at Practice Greenhealth is to assist the organization in developing programmatic content, tools and resources, developing strategy for new sustainability initiatives and determining an industry-wide set of appropriate metrics and tracking mechanisms to monitor the success of healthcare sustainability programs. Cecilia provides sustainability content expertise and leadership to Greenhealth Academy's workshops, trainings, webinars and e-learning offerings as well as the Greening the OR^TM Initiative. She is also an accomplished public speaker and trainer, and builds support and awareness for Practice Greenhealth through targeted speaking engagements, stakeholder engagement and outreach. Cecilia brings more than 14 years of experience working with hospitals and healthcare organizations to create customized sustainability programs and goals, and is working with the Practice Greenhealth team to evolve the next set of sustainability performance resources, metrics and tools. She has an MBA with a focus in corporate social responsibility and healthcare administration, is a LEED-accredited professional, and was instrumental in helping update the Green Guide for Healthcare's Operations Credits in 2008.

Christopher Bodkin, Data Coordinator for Sector Performance and Recognition, Practice Greenhealth, cbodkin@practicegreenhealth.org

Christopher's role at Practice Greenhealth is to help the sector become more sustainable through data collection, analysis, and reporting. He works with Cecilia DeLoach Lynn on the Sector Performance team to create dynamic metrics and data parameters to maximize both, accessibility of data, as well as what can be learned. Christopher's vision is to create a circumstance where metrics are aligned with fiscal and social responsibilities in the health care sector as to naturally incentivize leaders to become more sustainable. Christopher oversees the Healthier Hospitals data collection and reporting as well as creates content and reports around data. Christopher is also a co-founder of Blu2Green, which is a medical plastics recycler and sits on the board of the Kearsarge Food Hub, which aggregates local and sustainable foods in New Hampshire.