Healthcare Facilities Recognized for Sustainability, Resilience
Organizations span the continuum of care, from urban academic medical centers to rural critical access facilities. July 1, 2025
By Dan Hounsell, Senior Editor
Sustainability and resilience continue as a top priority for facilities managers in institutional and commercial buildings, and in no market segment is the issue more critical than in healthcare, given the need for healthy facilities that are prepared for emergencies and climate change.
Practice Greenhealth recently announced the recipients of the 2025 Environmental Excellence Awards recognizing healthcare facilities demonstrating leadership in sustainability, environmental stewardship and climate resilience. This year, 496 health care organizations are being recognized.
Among them, the 2025 Top 25 Environmental Excellence Award recipients were honored for exemplary performance and innovation in sustainability. These organizations, selected for their exceptional and holistic environmental programs, are:
- Advocate Christ Medical Center and Advocate Children's Hospital - Oak Lawn
- Advocate Condell Medical Center
- Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Boston Medical Center
- Hackensack Meridian Bayshore Medical Center
- Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center
- Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center
- HealthPartners Hudson Hospital & Clinic
- HealthPartners Regions Hospital
- Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Providence St. Patrick Hospital
- Providence Swedish Medical Center - Cherry Hill
- Providence Swedish Medical Center - Edmonds
- Providence Swedish Medical Center - First Hill
- Providence Swedish Medical Center - Issaquah
- Seattle Children's
- Stanford Health Care
- Stony Brook University Hospital
- The University of Vermont Medical Center
- UC San Diego Health - Hillcrest Medical Center
- UC San Diego Health - Jacobs Medical Center
- UCI Health*
- University of Michigan Health - Michigan Medicine
These organizations span the continuum of care, from urban academic medical centers to rural critical access facilities. They are leveraging their purchasing power, investments and other assets to move markets toward environmentally safer products and technologies while partnering with frontline communities to ensure solutions advance environmental and health equity.
Dan Hounsell is senior editor for the facilities market. He has more than 30 years of experience writing about facilities maintenance, engineering and management.
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