Building a brighter Tomorrow, Together at Texas Children’s includes creating and maintaining a healthy environment to live, work and receive care – not only for our patients and our people, but for our planet.
As Earth Day approaches and our journey into the future continues, Texas Children’s has re-established the Green Team: a cross-functional group of team members from across the system with a focus on sustainability, education and the coordination of environmental best practices.
The Green Team is supported by our executive leadership and committed to making Texas Children’s a leader in sustainability and environmentally efficient operations. They’re working to support healthier children, women and communities, and developing new strategies to implement system-wide.
They have partnered with Practice Greenhealth, a health care membership organization that provides a range of sustainability solutions. Within the Practice Greenhealth platform are 12 areas of focus around which the Green Team will create programs and initiatives.
Let’s celebrate Earth Day!
Please join the Green Team for a fun and informative Earth Day celebration.
Texas Children’s Celebrates Earth Day
11 a.m. – 1 p.m., Friday, April 22
The Auxiliary Bridge, Medical Center campus
Learn more about our sustainability goals, get tips for maintaining sustainable practices at work and home and make a personal sustainability pledge. You can also meet our vendor partners and enter a drawing for a chance to win a special Earth Day Giveaway!
Our commitment in action
Over the years, Texas Children’s has taken several steps to support sustainability and impact real change and benefits in our facilities. The measures include the following action and are just the beginning:
- Installing low-flow toilets and faucets
- Utilizing reusable sharps containers
- Energy-saving improvements in NRI building with savings of nearly $350,000
- Energy-saving assessment in Mark A. Wallace Tower with potential savings of nearly $350,000
- LED lighting upgrade on main campus to improve lighting, save energy and reduce maintenance costs
- Implementing dozens of energy-saving initiatives, including renewable energy projects, energy rebates and credits, and system upgrades, such as installing temperature range control in non-patient care areas
Texas Children’s Green Team is currently applying for the Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellence Awards program across all areas of focus. Navigating this process will help determine sustainability analytics to better understand the cost, impact and performance of past and present sustainability initiatives. It will also allow provide insight to better anticipate future conditions and requirements as the team builds a multi-faceted program.