Our Solutions
Our solutions can help you identify and meet your sustainability goals. What’s the next step on your sustainability journey? Let KSH be your partner in:
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KSH works with your team to assess organizational mission, vision and goals, as well as current programs and practices, to build a sustainability strategy and roadmap to guide your approach to a cleaner, greener healthcare system.
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KSH's expert data team collects, manages, and analyzes your data to support strategic planning, and to assess the feasibility and monitor and evaluate progress of programs and projects.
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KSH creates and delivers industry-leading programs and projects to support your sustainability goals, with an emphasis on decarbonization, zero waste, sustainable procurement, chemicals and materials of concern, and greening the operating room.
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KSH creates and delivers educational programs and builds best-in-class leadership and employee education and engagement programs to elevate sustainability within your organization and provides internal and external communications to build and sustain momentum.
Strategic Planning
KSH partners with health system clients to build sustainability and climate action strategies that align with and support each client’s culture, priorities, management systems, and strategic goals. Our approach to strategic planning balances people and culture with data. We establish a metrics-based baseline of environmental performance and sustainability initiatives, leveraging industry leading tools and standards, and then evaluate our client’s organizational systems, strengths, opportunities, and approach to change management to build a longer term strategy. We work with our clients to understand their approaches to decision-making and develop a framework for governance and stand up workgroups with the right executive and operational leaders to ensure success. We build one-year and multi-year sustainability strategies with a roadmap that guides healthcare programmatic and project-based decisions.
Case Study :: Sustainability strategy for a health-system targeting net-zero emissions
Data Management
Healthcare organizations need good data to understand how to prioritize resources to reduce their environmental footprint and meet their sustainability goals. KSH’s team of data experts collect, organize, and validate data on a broad range of topics in the healthcare setting, including energy and water use, waste generation, transportation, chemicals of concern, and procurement. We use widely accepted tools and standards to analyze greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (Scopes 1, 2, and 3) and waste generation rates, and to benchmark sustainability performance. For organizations seeking to strengthen their internal data management processes, KSH develops tools and strategies tailored to each organization’s unique needs and priorities, designed to build enduring systems and internal capacity.
Case Study :: Data management programs that support sustainability and climate action
Programs & Projects
Whether your hospital or healthcare system seeks to stand up a zero waste program, build a pilot project to shift from one anesthetic to a lower carbon alternative, or create a policy and guidelines to establish more sustainable purchasing behavior, KSH’s team can provide a turnkey experience. We can support you in assessing baseline conditions, capacity, and drivers for change, and building the case with environmental and financial feasibility assessments. We can design and implement your policy, program, or initiative, in alignment with hospital culture, values, and operations, and build in standards and processes to institutionalize changes. Throughout, we educate and engage leadership and staff to ensure long-term success. Successful programs and projects require strategic thinking, a boots-on-the-ground approach, and continuous monitoring. Our strategy, program, and data experts work together to ensure successful outcomes for our clients.
Case Study :: Zero waste programs built for quality and performance
Case Study :: Supply Chain Resiliency through Reusable Products
Education & Engagement
A culture of sustainability relies on leadership and staff engagement. KSH creates and delivers educational programs and builds best-in-class leadership and employee engagement programs to elevate sustainability within your organization. We meet internal stakeholders where they are and develop sustainability capacity by building leaders within the organization. We also report on and develop communications about our clients strategies and programs, documenting success stories and producing compelling digital and print content.
Case Study :: Cultivating and Empowering Clinicians as Sustainability Leaders
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