The 2025 Environmental Excellence Awards are open, and will be due on Wednesday, April 9.
If you have questions, need assistance or technical support, or need help setting up or updating an awards account, please contact the Awards team or call our support hotline at 888-378-2259. If you are a VA facility, email vasupport@practicegreenhealth.org or contact our hotline with inquiries. We're hosting one more session of the Master your Environmental Excellence Awards application session on Wednesday January 29 from 3-3:45 pm ET (12-12:45 pm PT). Join us to hear about this year's changes, develop some strategies for tackling your application, and get any general application questions you have answered.
Example Success Stories
Success stories are a vital piece of the Environmental Excellence Awards. Not only do narratives that demonstrate concise and complete stories with outcomes contribute to three of the four application scoring frameworks, but stories also give applicants like you an opportunity to highlight achievements and wins on your sustainability journey.
To help you fill out your application this year, we’re highlighting some great examples from the 2024 Environmental Excellence Awards.
Find inspiration for your sustainability programs by reading this week’s feature from University of Michigan Health - Michigan Medicine:
We have been performing pre-consumer composting within our retail and patient food operations for several years. However, we are very proud of our post-consumer composting program that began in approx. Jan 2020. The food scraps that come down from patient floor rooms are collected for compost within our patient food operation kitchens. I believe we are one of few hospitals in the State of Michigan that are collecting post-consumer food compost coming down from patient floors. In CY 2023, the pre & post consumer composting program collected 113.7 tons.