The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center focused on eight sustainability goals for fiscal year 2019. These goals aligned with both The Ohio State University's overall vision for sustainability, as well as the Wexner Medical Center's strategic plan goals:
- Reduce, reuse, recycle and segregate waste more effectively to become better environmental stewards.
- Leverage purchasing power to generate demand for safer and healthier products.
- Address the complexity of sustainability through a variety of learning formats, strategies and occasions.
- Reduce energy consumption, increase energy efficiency and generate energy cost savings.
- Reduce carbon impact due to travel by medical center employees.
- Reduce potable water consumption by 5% per capita every five years.
- Develop a data-driven framework to support an organizational commitment to sustainability.
- Serve healthier foods to improve the health of patients, staff and communities.
The medical center's sustainability accomplishments report showcases not only the progress made toward achieving these eight sustainability goals, but also the innovative approaches deployed to reimagine the organization's business practices, policies and management, in an effort to drastically reduce its environmental impact. Many individuals across all levels of the organization—staff, faculty and students—contributed to making these accomplishments possible.
The stories in this report are organized by the medical center's strategic plan goals: Healthy Communities, Research, Resource Stewardship, Talent and Culture, Education and Healthcare Delivery.
Read The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center 2018-19 Sustainability Accomplishments.