Fairview Health Services (system)
Fairview Health Services is a Minnesota-based nonprofit system with ~30,000 team members, 10 hospitals, and 80+ clinics. Fairview's public sustainability page states that environmental goals are currently under evaluation and are being revamped across seven focus areas: Energy Efficiency, Environmentally Preferable Purchasing, Sustainable Facility Design, Healthy Food Systems, Waste Reduction & Recycling, Water Conservation, and Employee Engagement. No quantitative emissions, waste, or water targets have been published yet. Tracked here as a placeholder so commitments can be added once disclosed.
Compare to peers
Percentiles compare this hospital against peers in the selected set. Higher is better on both metrics.
Goals & progress
- Gundersen Health System (Emplify Health)100% (+100 pts ahead)
- Advocate Christ Medical Center100% (+100 pts ahead)
- Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center100% (+100 pts ahead)
- Stanford Health Care100% (+100 pts ahead)
- Hackensack University Medical Center100% (+100 pts ahead)
- Valley Children's Hospital100% (+100 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.
- UCSF Health90% (+90 pts ahead)
- Providence Portland Medical Center85% (+85 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% (+100 pts ahead)
- Massachusetts General Hospital100% (+100 pts ahead)
- Hackensack University Medical Center80% (+80 pts ahead)
- Riverside Medical Center100% (+100 pts ahead)
- Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center100% (+100 pts ahead)
- Stanford Health Care65% (+65 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.
Compostable cups, lids, cutlery and clamshells for hospital cafeterias and patient meal trays certified industrially compostable.
BPI certified compostable trays, bowls and utensils used by health systems including Kaiser Permanente for patient meals.