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HMHP To Receive Environmental Leadership Award
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Humility of Mary Health Partners will receive the Melvin Creeley Environmental Leadership Award during the Ohio Hospital Association’s annual meeting Monday in Columbus.
The award honors hospitals that promote sound environmental practices and exemplify best practices for other hospitals to emulate. This is the second year in a row Humility of Mary Health Partners has received the award. It is among 10 hospitals throughout Ohio to be honored this year. The award is named after Melvin Creeley, the retired president and CEO of East Liverpool City Hospital who served as chairman of the Ohio Hospital Association’s Environmental Leadership Council from its inception in 2001 to 2010.
“We’re not being recognized for a specific project, but rather our continuing efforts to reduce our impact on the Earth and achieve environmental sustainability,” says Matthew R. Waggle, regional director of environmental services at Humility of Mary Health Partners. “We are very deliberate in all of our new construction to make sure we are diverting construction waste so it is not buried in a landfill, and in choosing sustainable building materials.”
In addition, HMHP continues to expand its recycling efforts both in-house and by introducing programs that are open to the community. This April, Earth Week shred events at St. Elizabeth Health Center, St. Joseph Health Center and St. Elizabeth Boardman Health Center diverted 5.42 tons of paper from the waste stream, HMHP says. That was more than twice the amount of paper collected during similar events last year, Waggle said, and equates to saving 11 barrels of oil, 92 trees, 38,262 gallons of water, 21,864 kilowatts of electricity and 16 cubic yards of landfill space.
In October, representatives from HMHP will present the organization’s sustainability practices to the Ohio Hospital Association’s Environmental Leadership Council.
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.