Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
A 650 bed tertiary care hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois, part of Advocate Health. The hospital participates in system wide sustainability initiatives focused on energy conservation, waste minimization, and environmentally responsible operations.
Compare to peers
Percentiles compare this hospital against peers in the selected set. Higher is better on both metrics.
Goals & progress
- Cleveland Clinic Main Campus100% (+64 pts ahead)
- Gundersen Health System (Emplify Health)100% (+64 pts ahead)
- Boston Medical Center100% (+64 pts ahead)
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.
- Gundersen Health System (Emplify Health)100% (+57 pts ahead)
- Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center100% (+57 pts ahead)
- Massachusetts General Hospital80% (+37 pts ahead)
- Stanford Health Care100% (+60 pts ahead)
- Hackensack University Medical Center100% (+60 pts ahead)
- Valley Children's Hospital100% (+60 pts ahead)
Solutions that map to these goals
Products from our solutions directory that align with this hospital's stated commitments and active projects.
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.
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.
On site treatment system that decontaminates and recycles polystyrene petri dishes, PET tubes, medical tubing and polypropylene syringes back into usable resin.
First fully plastic free, PFAS free medication cup, made from bacterial cellulose. Naturally biodegrades in ~3 months and is ISO 10993 biocompatibility tested.
UK university spin out (NHS Innovation Accelerator fellow) that decontaminates and recycles lab consumables pipette tips, tubes, plates into reusable polymer feedstock on site.
Finnish startup making the first fully ecological hydrocolloid dressing decomposes to CO₂, water and humus with no microplastic residue.