Nicklaus Children's Hospital
South Florida's only freestanding pediatric specialty hospital is pursuing climate resilience, single-use plastics reduction, and clinical recycling expansion across its Miami campus and outpatient network.
Compare to peers
Percentiles compare this hospital against peers in the selected set. Higher is better on both metrics.
Goals & progress
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.
- Seattle Children's Hospital100% (+70 pts ahead)
- University of Vermont Medical Center85% (+55 pts ahead)
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center85% (+55 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.
- Sentara Norfolk General Hospital70% (+35 pts ahead)
- UVA Health University Medical Center70% (+35 pts ahead)
- Yale New Haven Hospital55% (+20 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.
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia70% (+28 pts ahead)
- Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center65% (+23 pts ahead)
- UCSF Health60% (+18 pts ahead)
Solutions that map to these goals
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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.
Largest reprocessor of single use medical devices in the U.S., recovering EP catheters, pulse oximeter sensors, compression sleeves and more for safe reuse.
Reprocesses single use devices and repairs rigid/flexible scopes, extending product life while maintaining FDA cleared clinical performance.
On site treatment system that decontaminates and recycles polystyrene petri dishes, PET tubes, medical tubing and polypropylene syringes back into usable resin.
First closed loop recycling model for sterile medical packaging non contaminated hospital packaging waste is collected, chemically recycled, and turned back into new sterile film.