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Comp 3 – Reflection Creating a Sustainable Legacy: Healthy Communities Abdul Sameer Shaik University of Phoenix MHACB/560: Creating A Sustainable Legacy: Healthy Communities 12/01/2023 James Jones

Sustainability Finances What are some financial benefits and drawbacks to implementing sustainability initiatives? Are there situations in which a financial loss is acceptable when it comes to implementing sustainability initiatives? Explain your answer. Sustainability initiatives offer significant environmental and financial benefits for organizations that. Sustainability must be part of hospitals’ strategic business plan and be the driving force for initiatives and infrastructure improvements. Each hospital and care system must determine the best course of action based on its own goals. An approach that works for one hospital may not be an option for another. The U.S. healthcare industry could actually save as much as $15 billion over the next 10 years simply by adopting more sustainable practices. Individual hospitals can save millions of dollars through energy efficiency initiatives, waste reduction efforts, and environmentally responsible purchasing. These gains, in turn, would have a positive and measurable effect on the health of the local community, making sustainability focused hospitals an even greater steward of population health. Sustainable practices will also make spaces more effective for healing. Many in the industry would even say that sustainability is a moral obligation and should be adopted as standard operating procedure now and into the future. As more hospitals demonstrate that sustainable architecture benefits the healing of the patients, a general acceptance of new hospital design will follow. Studies have shown that the environment that people create has profound impacts on the human psyche. Sustainable design and construction are the practice of creating structures and using processes that are environmentally responsible and resource efficient throughout the life cycle of a building from selecting the site to design, construction, operation, maintenance, renovation, and finally, deconstruction. Sustainable building goes beyond simple return-on-investment analysis of the first costs of specific improvements and rather it evaluates an improvement over its entire life cycle, including first costs and subsequent operations, maintenance, and disposal costs. The cost of building green is becoming easier to justify, not only when viewed from a perspective of reduced building operating expenses but also when green buildings support healthcare objectives. Therefore, sustainable design is good for the environment and good for business.

The ASHE Green Building Committee developed a construction guidance statement to answer the question of what sustainable design and construction means in the context of a healthcare facility. Planning for a construction project offers healthcare organizations an opportunity to formulate overall sustainable building goals if these are not already in place. These goals can include such actions as using sustainable materials in a renovation project or adding more green space around the facility, for example. Several states, counties, and municipalities have implemented financial incentives, expedited permitting programs, and instituted regulations to promote sustainable design and construction. Sustainability Tools and Resources Find 2 to 3 tools or resources available to health care leaders to help guide their efforts toward sustainable operations and explain the benefits of these tools or resources. Driven by a concern for public health, a desire to reduce operating costs, and a sense of social responsibility, health care institutions are increasingly embracing healthy building goals. In practice, however, it can often be difficult to determine what it means to integrate environmentally responsible design and building materials into a building framework. Fortunately, there are several resources available that help establish concrete guidelines for healthy building materials and practices. Global lessons in healthcare by Robin Guenther, FAIA, LEED AP and Walt Vernon, PE Sustainable Health Care Architecture, a resource from Robin Guenther and Gail Vittori, Co- Coordinators of the Green Guide for Health Care. Includes case studies of more than 50 of the best contemporary sustainable healthcare projects, as well as numerous essays contributed by other leaders in sustainable design and healthcare. Additionally, the authors provide background information on LEED for Healthcare, as well as on the Green Guide for Health Care, which they were instrumental in developing. ASHE Green Healthcare Construction Guidance Statement, Vision statement and comprehensive check list of green design and construction goals and strategies developed by the American Society for Healthcare Engineering. Green and Healthy Buildings for the Healthcare Industry, article by Gail Vittori of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems on planning for a green healthcare facility. Kaiser Permanente Position Statement on Green Buildings. Mission statement from Kaiser on green construction in its healthcare facilities.

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Minnesota Sustainable Design Guide, Public Review Draft version 2.1. The Guide is a design tool that can be used to overlay environmental issues on the design, construction, and operation of both new and renovated facilities. It can be used to set sustainable design priorities and goals; develop appropriate sustainable design strategies; and to determine performance measures to guide the sustainable design and decision-making processes. CHPS 1350 Specifications Review of the progressive specifications developed by and now in use by the State of California with an emphasis on their treatment of indoor air quality issues and discussion of issues for healthcare. Key Questions for Environmentally Preferable Flooring Selection, Questions to ask a manufacturer to understand the life cycle impact of a flooring product (adaptable to other products). More than 100 health care systems representing more than 32 million square feet of construction are using the Green Guide for Health Care to build and operate hospitals and health care facilities that are healthier for people and the environment. Kaiser Permanente Modesto Medical Center. A Model for Healthy Building Kaiser Permanente's new 50-acre, 650,000- square-foot, full-service medical campus in Modesto, California is a model high performance healing environment. KP is pilot testing several cutting-edge green designs and techniques at the site and saving money in the process. The Patrick H. Dollard Health Center at the Center for Discovery, Certified LEED for New Construction. A health center in rural, upstate New York serving a population of 250 full-time residents with neurological and developmental impairments. The design emphasizes environmental health goals to minimize building materials that contain or off-gas toxic chemicals. Case Study: Providence Newberg Medical Center, LEED for New Construction Gold Certified. This 180,636-square-foot complex in Newberg, OR, includes an acute care hospital, medical offices, and administrative services. The project team focused on establishing a robust integrated design process that encouraged community involvement and focused on life-cycle cost evaluations of new technologies and safer materials. Greening Healthcare Facilities Roundtable. A 65-page summary report of a green healthcare roundtable held in October 2005 by key members of the building industry, green design community, healthcare industry, academic institutions, and government agencies. The meeting's purpose was to form a consortium to improve how healthcare facilities are planned, designed, constructed, and maintained. Design for Health Summit, Setting Healthcare's Environmental Agenda.

References Sustainability Transforms Healthcare Facilities' Design, Construction, and Operations https://www.facilitiesnet.com/healthcarefacilities/article/Sustainability-Transforms-Healthcare- Facilities-Design-Construction-and-Operations--17240 Healthcare without harm: Tools and Resources https://noharm-global.org/issues/global/tools-and-resources-0 Tools and Resources for Sustainable Communities https://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/tools-and-resources-sustainable-communities

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