Categories of Membership
The Global Green and Healthy Hospitals has the following categories of membership.
1. Hospital’s Members include:
Low complexity – such as a District hospital providing acute care services, may include minor surgery, and can include normal childbirth but not caesarian section or other surgical intervention, serves as referral from primary care level.
Medium complexity – such as a Regional referral center. Basic specialties at the medium complexity level including: obstetrics, dental, radiology (xrays).
High complexity – such as a National (or International) referral center: services to include specialty care for cancer, cardiology, neurology or may provide only specialized care such as a Cardiology Hospital and include diagnostic services such as MRI and CAT scanning.
Hospital Members commit to:
- endorsing the Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Agenda;
- implementing at least two of its goals;
- making an ongoing effort at continuous improvement of their environmental performance;
- and promoting environmental and public health at the comhmunity and policy level.
To join GGHH, click here.
2. Health Care Facilities include:
Community health centers; primary care facilities including: maternity clinics (up to 5 beds), dispensaries, stand-alone counseling and testing facilities; dental and physician offices; diagnostic laboratories; stand-alone same-day surgery centers; stand-alone pharmacies; research laboratories; nursing homes. These members commit to:
- endorsing the Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Agenda;
- implementing at least two of its goals;
- making an ongoing effort at continuous improvement of their environmental performance;
- and promoting environmental and public health at the community and policy level.
To join GGHH, click here.
3. Health System Members (private, public, private for charity) commit to:
- endorsing the Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Agenda;
- working with individual hospitals in their system as well as the system as a whole to implement at least two of its goals;
- encouraging individual hospitals in the system to join the network;
- making an ongoing effort at continuous improvement of their environmental performance; and promoting environmental and public health at the community and policy level.
To join GGHH, click here.
4. Health, Professional and Academic Organizations Members commit to:
- endorsing the Global Green and Healthy Hospital Agenda; advocating for the Agenda’s goals;
- publicizing the agenda through their networks and encouraging hospitals and health systems to join.
- providing learning opportunities about the link between environmental and public health and practices that promote both
- advocating for environmental and public health
To join GGHH, click here.
Non-members
- If you are unable to join the network but want to stay informed sign up to GGHH News List.
- U.S. based hospitals, health care facilities, health systems and health organizations, please join our sister network, Practice Greenhealth