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GREEN solutions
New Structure Meets
Sustainability Benchmark
By Neil Rosen
The Katz Women’s Hospital
at North Shore
University Hospital
recently was the first New
York hospital to receive LEED
platinum certification. The
Katz Women’s Hospital uses
about 18.6 percent less energy
and 51 percent less water. Furthermore,
all of the electricity
consumed in its first two years
of operation will come from
renewable energy generated by
wind power in Texas.
The recognized standard
of the sustainable building
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movement, LEED stands
for Leadership in Energy
and Environmental Design,
a rating system for green
buildings that was developed
by the United States Green
Building Council. Designed
to encourage, standardize,
and award sustainable building
efforts, LEED provides a
framework for identifying and
implementing practical and
quantifiable green building
solutions.
The LEED system outlines
a number of credits and as-
North Shore University Hospital Wins
National Award for Eco-Friendly Practices
Practice Greenhealth, a
national organization for healthcare
facilities committed to environmentally
responsible operations,
recently presented NSUH with the
2012 Partner for Change Award. The
award is one of the organization’s
Environmental Excellence Awards
given each year to honor outstanding
environmental achievements in the
healthcare sector.
The Partner for Change Award
recognizes healthcare facilities that
continuously improve and expand
upon their mercury elimination,
waste reduction and source reduction
programs. At a minimum, facilities
applying for this award must be
recycling 15 percent of their total
waste, be well on the way to mercury
elimination and have developed
other successful pollution prevention
programs in many different areas.
“This award demonstrates
North Shore University Hospital’s and
the North Shore-LIJ Health System’s
commitment to our patients, staff
members and the community to
protect public health and preserve
the environment,” said Maurice
LaBonne, senior vice president of
facilities services at North Shore-LIJ.
“North Shore-LIJ is truly demonstrating
leadership for the future of health
care and sustainability.”
NSUH received the Partner for
Change Award for environmental
performance in the following areas:
recycling and waste reduction,
participation in the health system’s
green cleaning program, measures
to reduce mercury in all medi-
signs points to a project based
on how many credits the
project fulfills. Based on the
number of points earned, a
project can earn titles ranging
from certified to silver, gold
and platinum. Only the most
sustainable projects achieve the
platinum rating.
There are six major LEED
categories: sustainable sites,
water efficiency, energy and
atmosphere, materials and
resources, indoor environmental
quality and innovation
in design.
cal procedures and nontoxic paint
products. In addition, in February,
the Katz Women’s Hospital third-floor
renovation project achieved a LEED
platinum certification, the industry’s
highest rating for sustainable design,
green building materials and energyefficient
systems. The facility is the
third hospital project worldwide to
receive this distinction.
“We are pleased to be
recognized for this significant
achievement,” said Neil Rosen,
director of sustainable development
at North Shore-LIJ. “We are proud
to be a model of how hospitals can
develop and implement eco-friendly
programs and sustainable buildings
to improve the health of people and
our planet.”
North Shore-
LIJ Launches
Interactive TV
Programming
GREAT NECK — North
Shore-LIJ Health TV,
an interactive television
service, recently premiered
on iO TV channel 616.
Presented by the North
Shore-LIJ Health System
and Cablevision, the videoon-demand
channel offers
health and wellness information
to Cablevision’s
nearly three million digital
cable customers on Long
Island and in the Bronx,
Brooklyn, Westchester,
Lower Hudson Valley, New
Jersey and Connecticut.
“The launch of North
Shore-LIJ Health TV with
Cablevision provides a
groundbreaking experience
that utilizes the strengths
of both organizations to
deliver health and wellness
information via video-ondemand
content from New
York’s very best physicians
and clinicians into living
rooms,” said Michael
Dowling, president and
CEO of the health system.
The health system
is the first New Yorkarea
healthcare provider
to establish its own TV
channel. North Shore-
LIJ Health TV provides
access to a video library
of health and wellness
topics and information on
North Shore LIJ hospitals,
and viewers can request
additional information on
the health system’s services.