Chicago, Ill. – For the fourth consecutive year, Practice Greenhealth, a national organization for environmentally responsible health care facilities, recognized Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center for its environmental excellence.
“We are perennial leaders in energy savings thanks to our great Facilities & Engineering group, and this year we were also able to highlight the green aspects of the Center for Advanced Care and our continued efforts at reducing medical and solid waste,” said hospital Green Team Co-chair Katie Wickman, MS, RN, CIC, who works in Infection Prevention. “This award is evidence of our strong commitment to continually improving our environmental practices.”
Advocate Illinois Masonic received the Top 25 Environmental Excellence Award, Practice Greenhealth’s highest honor. The Top 25 Environmental Excellence Award recognizes 25 health care facilities that exemplify environmental excellence. Winners are chosen from hospitals with the highest scores using Practice Greenhealth’s evaluation system.
Advocate Illinois Masonic also received Practice Greenhealth’s Circle of Excellence Award for Energy. This award is given to the top 10 hospitals who practice the best energy reduction and conservation.
This year, all of the Advocate hospital sites received some level of recognition from Practice Greenhealth. Advocate Illinois Masonic was joined by Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital and Advocate Christ Medical Center in earning the Top 25 Environmental Excellence Award.
Practice Greenhealth presented the awards on May 14, 2015, at its Environmental Excellence Gala in Portland, Oregon, in conjunction with CleanMed, an environmental conference for leaders in environmental sustainability.
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About Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center is a 408-bed hospital in Chicago with a Level I trauma center and a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, the highest designations awarded by the state of Illinois. It offers comprehensive inpatient services, including medical, surgical, obstetrics and pediatric care, as well as a full breadth of outpatient services. A recipient of numerous awards for quality and clinical excellence, Illinois Masonic has been ranked one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals for the past six consecutive years by Truven Health Analytics, as well as named a recipient of the organization’s Everest Award for National Benchmarks in 2010 and 2013. The medical center has also been named a Leader in the Human Rights Campaign’s Healthcare Equality Index for the past six years, as well as one of the Chicago region’s Best Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report for the past two years. In 2012, the hospital again achieved Magnet designation for excellence and quality in nursing services by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Magnet Recognition Program, as well as certification as a Primary Stroke Center by The Joint Commission. Illinois Masonic is part of Advocate Health Care, a 2014 Truven Health Analytics Top 15 U.S. health care system for quality and clinical performance and the largest provider of health care services in Illinois. For more on Illinois Masonic, visit www.advocatehealth.com/masonic.