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Oak Lawn, IL· Advocate Health· 749 beds

Advocate Christ Medical Center

Part of Advocate Health, which received Health Care Without Harm's 2023 Climate Leadership Silver Award. 13 Advocate hospitals were named ASHE Energy to Care Sustainability Champions in 2024, and Advocate Christ was a 2024 Practice Greenhealth Top 25 honoree.

HCWH Silver 2023Energy to CareTop 25 PGH 2024
Sustainability report
Peer benchmark

Compare to peers

Better than peers on progress
100%
vs. 1 peers · median 40%
Better than peers on waste/bed
100%
peer median 6.0 t/bed/yr
Your progress
100%
3 stated goals

Percentiles compare this hospital against peers in the selected set. Higher is better on both metrics.

Stated commitments

Goals & progress

HCWH Climate Leadership Award
Target Silver+ by 2023 · baseline 2020
Achieved
100% of the way to goal0 yrs remaining
Source: Advocate Health News
Projected impact if deployed
Contributing solutions

Directional estimate. Tons modeled from this hospital's annual waste footprint and category benchmarks (Practice Greenhealth, vendor case studies). Diminishing returns applied when multiple solutions share a category.

ASHE Energy to Care Sustainability Champion
Target Maintain by 2024 · baseline 2022 · 13 Advocate hospitals recognized in 2024
Achieved
100% of the way to goal0 yrs remaining
Source: Advocate Health News
Practice Greenhealth Top 25
Target Top 25 by 2024 · baseline 2022
Achieved
100% of the way to goal0 yrs remaining
Source: Practice Greenhealth
Projected impact if deployed
Contributing solutions

Directional estimate. Tons modeled from this hospital's annual waste footprint and category benchmarks (Practice Greenhealth, vendor case studies). Diminishing returns applied when multiple solutions share a category.

Vendor match

Solutions that map to these goals

Products from our solutions directory that align with this hospital's stated commitments and active projects.

Compostable supplies
BioGown compostable isolation gown
Terraloam

The first closed loop, 100% compostable medical isolation gown. Replaces single use plastic gowns with a plant based alternative collected and composted through a take back program.

Impact: 176K+ gowns diverted from landfill, 95% collection rate, Premier Innovation Award winner.
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Recycling & circularity
BioDigester on site composter
Terraloam

On site aerobic digester that turns up to 220 lbs of hospital food waste and Terraloam compostable film gowns into finished compost in 24 hours closing the loop between cafeteria and clinical waste streams.

Impact: Diverts ~40 tons/yr of combined food waste and compostable PPE per unit from landfill or incineration with no off site hauling.
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Recycling & circularity
GENERATIONS closed loop lab plastic recycling
BD + Envetec

On site treatment system that decontaminates and recycles polystyrene petri dishes, PET tubes, medical tubing and polypropylene syringes back into usable resin.

Impact: Pilot study confirmed recovered resin meets virgin grade specs for re manufacture into healthcare plastics.
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Compostable supplies
Plastic free medication cup
Plastilose

First fully plastic free, PFAS free medication cup, made from bacterial cellulose. Naturally biodegrades in ~3 months and is ISO 10993 biocompatibility tested.

Impact: Replaces billions of single use plastic souffle cups used for med pass each year.
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Anesthesia & pharma
Anesthesia gas capture (Centralized waste anesthetic gas)
SageMedic / Sage Sustainable Electronics

Capture and destroy systems for waste anesthetic gases (desflurane, sevoflurane, N₂O) that prevent potent greenhouse gas release and cut volatile pharma waste.

Impact: Mass General Brigham and others report 80%+ reductions in anesthesia carbon footprint.
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Anesthesia & pharma
Pharma waste segregation software
PharmEcology (WM Healthcare Solutions)

Decision support tool that correctly classifies drug waste so hospitals stop disposing non hazardous pharma in expensive, plastic heavy regulated waste streams.

Impact: Customers cut hazardous pharma waste tonnage by 30 60% on average.
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Underway

Waste reduction projects

EnergySince 2024
Enterprise energy + water reduction program
Recognized across 13 hospitals in 2024
Proof points

Case studies & pilot programs

Publicly documented programs where this hospital or its parent system reported measurable results.

Climate resilience2023

Anesthesia GHG reduction across Advocate Health

Advocate Health pharmacy and anesthesia teams eliminated desflurane from formulary at most sites and capped central nitrous oxide manifold leaks high impact OR decarbonization moves.

Result
Substantial Scope 1 emission reduction reported in Advocate's sustainability disclosures.
Source: Advocate Health