VCU Health
VCU Health is an academic medical center in Richmond advancing decarbonization, clinical waste minimization, and a signed HHS Health Sector Climate Pledge to halve emissions by 2030.
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)
- Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago75% (+35 pts ahead)
- Children's Minnesota70% (+30 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% (+75 pts ahead)
- Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago75% (+50 pts ahead)
- Stanford Health Care65% (+40 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.
- Massachusetts General Hospital100% (+62 pts ahead)
- Seattle Children's Hospital100% (+62 pts ahead)
- Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center90% (+52 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.
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.
Next generation suction fluid collection bag designed to use significantly less plastic per case than legacy rigid canister systems.
On site treatment system that decontaminates and recycles polystyrene petri dishes, PET tubes, medical tubing and polypropylene syringes back into usable resin.