Thank you for joining CleanMed 2026. Whether you’re just getting started or advancing a mature sustainability strategy, Practice Greenhealth offers peer networks, tools, and programs to help you move forward.
Explore ways to continue your sustainability journey below.
Explore next steps
Reduce emissions while improving operational efficiency.
- Quantify your emissions and identify your highest-impact reduction opportunities.
- Join upcoming webinars to learn how health systems are reducing emissions and costs from cutting regulated medical waste (RMW) to advancing supply chain (Scope 3) strategies.
- Use the Health Sector CARES Pledge to formalize your goals, align with national climate targets, and accelerate progress.
- Join the Food Waste Pact to reduce waste and cut Scope 3 emissions.
Prepare your organization for climate-related disruptions.
- Use the “Safe Haven in the Storm” resource to elevate resilience as a business and patient safety priority.
- Use our planning guidance to assess risks, integrate with emergency preparedness, and begin building a comprehensive plan.
- Gain practical skills through resilience training to develop actionable strategies for continuity of care.
- Use our “Anchored by health care” resource to build equitable relationships that power community resilience.
Collaborate to reduce environmental impact.
- Use the Sustainable Procurement Guide to develop priorities, policies, and a roadmap for action.
- Register for Sustainable Procurement 101 to build skills in planning, supplier engagement, and measuring impact.
- Use the Climate Excellence Standard to align purchasing with climate goals and accelerate collaboration.
Drive sustainability through health professional leadership.
- Identify practical ways to reduce environmental impact in clinical care.
- Learn how Rush University Medical Center reduced plastics in the OR through clinician-led collaboration, cutting waste and costs.
- Join the Climate-Smart Collective to learn from peers and accelerate health professional-led sustainability efforts.
- Understand the growing role of clinical and medical directors of sustainability.
Stay connected with the Practice Greenhealth network
Keep learning, build your case, and stay engaged beyond CleanMed.
- Stay connected: Subscribe to our mailing list for insights, events, and opportunities to stay engaged year-round.
- Understand sustainability trends: Use the 2025 Health Care Sustainability Metrics Report to explore how health care facilities are performing across key impact areas, identify opportunities, and inform your next steps.
- Strengthen your case for leadership: Join our introductory session on securing leadership support to advance sustainability as a strategic priority.
- Go further as a partner: Access partners-exclusive benchmark data for deeper insights or join sessions on governance or embedding sustainability into your culture.
Your organization’s next step
Hospitals & health systems  Explore Practice Greenhealth membership. | Industry partners  Collaborate with health systems through our industry partner program. | Health professionals  Join the Climate-Smart Collective community. |