Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center
Largest hospital in the Novant Health system, serving 22 counties across North Carolina and Virginia. Novant Health has set science based targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 35% by 2030 and achieve net zero emissions by 2050, backed by a $855M Energy as a Service partnership with ENFRA.
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% (+60 pts ahead)
- University of Vermont Medical Center85% (+45 pts ahead)
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center85% (+45 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.
- Seattle Children's Hospital100% (+85 pts ahead)
- Stanford Health Care65% (+50 pts ahead)
- UC San Diego Health Jacobs Medical Center60% (+45 pts ahead)
- Advocate Christ Medical Center100% (+70 pts ahead)
- UCSF Health90% (+60 pts ahead)
- Hackensack University Medical Center80% (+50 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.
Capture and destroy systems for waste anesthetic gases (desflurane, sevoflurane, N₂O) that prevent potent greenhouse gas release and cut volatile pharma waste.
Decision support tool that correctly classifies drug waste so hospitals stop disposing non hazardous pharma in expensive, plastic heavy regulated waste streams.