WVU Medicine (system)
WVU Medicine is West Virginia's largest health system and the clinical enterprise of West Virginia University. Wheeling Hospital (a WVU Medicine facility) is using the IHF Geneva Sustainability Centre's Sustainability Accelerator Tool (SAT) to formalize a climate strategy, build adaptation/resilience plans, and reduce environmental impact — including eliminating Styrofoam in the cafeteria and aligning with the Health Care Climate Council's mitigation, resilience, and leadership pillars.
Compare to peers
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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.
- Advocate Christ Medical Center100% (+65 pts ahead)
- Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center100% (+65 pts ahead)
- Baptist Hospital of Miami55% (+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.
- Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center100% (+40 pts ahead)
- Boston Medical Center100% (+40 pts ahead)
- Seattle Children's Hospital100% (+40 pts ahead)
Solutions that map to these goals
Products from our solutions directory that align with this hospital's stated commitments and active projects.
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.
European leader in reprocessing complex single use cardiology and ultrasound catheters under EU MDR, returning them to OEM equivalent quality.
Specialty reprocessor focused on the highest cost single use electrophysiology and cardiology devices that other reprocessors won't touch.