Environmental Health & Sustainability
This commitment is a journey towards ensuring an optimist, pragmatic, and collective approach of striving for the highest level of organizational and personal health and sustainability.
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Quick Facts
Our vision statement: Building an organization and culture of sustainability and resilience to affirm the environments for human health to thrive.
Our Fundamental Goals
Intermountain Health’s sustainability fundamentals and focus areas of work depend on caregivers and contractors being proactive towards creating a more sustainable and resilient environment for maintaining a world that the generations of today, as well as the future, can enjoy and thrive in.
Collectively, all sustainability work stands on and strives to achieve four key fundamentals.
- Planetary Health
- Taking accountability for the impacts on the environment, of health services and operations, to ensure they create a neutral or positive environmental affect and thus establishes an environmentally healthy, sustainable, and resilient health care system.
- Community & Cultural Health
- Embedding sustainability into the culture of the organization and the communities served to ensure a healthy future for our clients, caregivers, and community members.
- Financial Health
- Aligning investments and financial decisions with cost-effective, health enhancing, and environmentally sustainable solutions.
- Clinical Impact & Services
- Taking action to understand, mitigate, and adapt health care services to address environmental conditions that impact human health.
Our Focus Areas
Intermountain Health has identified nine key focus areas, each area a key focus of the organizations environmental health and sustainability work.
In the News
- How a new solar farm in central Utah is helping to bring clean energy to Intermountain Health hospitals and clinics throughout the state | ABC4 Utah
- Check Your Health- New Solar Farm Bringing Clean Energy to Hospitals and Clinics
- Hospitals go green - POLITICO
- Intermountain Health Saves Millions of Gallons of Water Thanks to Innovative Upgrades at Central Laundry Facility
- "Every Day is Earth Day" Event Plants Trees to Reduce Water Use and Continue Sustainability Efforts at Intermountain Health | PRUndergroundPRUnderground
- Intermountain Health's sustainability goals take multi-site approach | Modern Healthcare
- Intermountain has plan to save millions of gallons of water
- Case Study Intermountain Healthcare - Wasatch Resource Recovery
- Intermountain Healthcare honored for air pollution work | Health Care Without Harm (US & Canada)