The University Health System received the 2012 Sustainability Award from the University Health System Consortium last Thursday.
The consortium, comprised of 116 academic medical centers and their affiliated hospitals, makes up about 90 percent of the United States’ leading non-profit medical centers. This is its fifth annual conference, and its first year awarding a center for its excellence in sustainability.
The health center applicants for the sustainability award were rated on three criteria: “A demonstrated, continuous commitment to a sustainability strategy; quantifiable means of measuring and reporting progress toward and achievement of sustainability goals; and a demonstrated commitment to increasing awareness of and communicating about the sustainability program to staff and internal stakeholders and throughout the community,” according to a consortium press release.
To be eligible for the awards, medical centers must submit applications for themselves, or nominate other medical centers, said Beverly Simon, senior marketing manager at UHC, in an email.
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