Key Green Solutions, LLC

12/10/2024

10/23/2024

HealthTrust Performance Group is hosting a Connect Show, an event enabling healthcare leaders to learn more about sustainability in healthcare through conversation, panels, and connection with vendors. Key Green Solutions is honored to have been invited to participate in this event, and to present information about how healthcare can continue internal innovation and community improvement through better sustainability practices.

Key Green’s Relationship Manager, Jeff Burks, will be sitting at the table on October 25 answering the industry’s leading questions concerning data collection, and what has and has not worked for healthcare systems across the United States. Jeff will speak about how data can be utilized and shifted to provide a baseline of truth when adapted from otherwise scattered formats; the first real step in making a positive impact on the healthcare sector.

If you are interested in speaking with Key Green Solutions about tracking your sustainability metrics, please reach out to Relationship Manager Jeff Burks: [email protected]

https://my.keygreensolutions.com/contact-us

09/10/2024

Key Green Solutions Sponsors West Michigan Environmental Action Council’s 21st Annual Cleanup

On Saturday, September 7, Key Green Solutions attended the 21st annual WMEAC Mayors’ Grand River Cleanup. This effort allows friends, family, and businesses to volunteer their time picking up debris along the Grand River. In addition to having the opportunity to be a sponsor, Key Green Solutions employees were able to speak at the event and join the manual cleanup efforts.

If you are interested in joining the WMEAC Mayors’ Grand River Cleanup, the event goes through Saturday, September 14.

If you are interested in speaking with Key Green Solutions about tracking your sustainability metrics, please reach out to Relationship Manager Jeff Burks: [email protected]

https://my.keygreensolutions.com/contact-us

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09/04/2024

06/28/2024

Thank you to Kent Conservation District for the 2023 Environmental Stewardship Award— we look forward to working with you every year!

04/23/2024

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Key Green Solutions Celebrates Earth Day

Happy Earth Day Week! Why limit action to Monday? There are endless opportunities to express appreciation and love for our beautiful planet every single day.

This past Saturday the Key Green Solutions team volunteered with Kent Conservation District in support of the Homegrown National Park Movement. This event involved selling and giving bare root plants native to Michigan. The event encourages the community to take the seedlings home to be planted on the same day, with the ultimate goal of helping individuals join the movement to restore biodiversity and ecosystem function.

Key Green Solutions customers understand the importance of making every day Earth Day, no matter how small the impact may initially seem. The little steps count on the path to a more sustainable community. If your facility is interested in gaining a better understanding of its daily energy use, water consumption, purchasing patterns, nutritional purchasing habits, greenhouse gas emissions, or waste disposal, please reach out to Relationship Manager Jeff Burks for an easy, free, and quick consultation.

[email protected]
https://my.keygreensolutions.com/contact-us

02/28/2024

We are excited to announce our NEW Assembly Silver Friends! This year’s in-person gathering of the ministry wouldn’t be possible without the support of these wonderful sponsors!

🔹 Aquinas Institute of Theology
🔹 Institute of Reproductive Grief Care
🔹 Key Green Solutions, LLC
🔹 ShiftMed

Learn how YOU can be a sponsor: https://hubs.li/Q02mzzZF0

Have you registered for CHA Assembly? Go here to secure the early bird rate! ➡️www.chausa.org/assembly

01/02/2024

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Key Green Solutions Saves Almost $1,000,000 for New Customer

When organizations become customers of Key Green Solutions, they work closely with our implementation team to make sure all vendors and data is accounted for. Last year, Implementation Manager Tim Schuitema did the same for a mid-sized customer and found severe discrepancies in their billing.

Tim stated, “Last November, I was assisting in a Request for Proposal for a mid-sized organization. While compiling a 12-month hazardous waste analysis, our team noticed their spend seemed much higher than what we would normally expect. After investigation into the discrepancy, we found that not only were there errors in the reporting their hazardous waste vendor had provided, but that they were also double billed.“

After the Key Green Solutions team evaluated the 12 months’ worth of invoices line item by line item to find any further latent billing errors, Tim was able to report back to the client with shocking and bad– yet ultimately great– news. “We told the customer what we had found to be multiple alleged billing errors, and they went back to their hazardous waste vendor for clarification. Thank to Key Green Solutions‘ implementation team, our customer was credited over $990,000 for the hazardous waste billing errors.”

Success stories such as this are why clients rely on Key Green Solutions to track and report their data. Our team investigates the numbers and reaches out to vendors to unravel any undiscovered reporting errors. If you are interested in a demonstration of our software, please reach out to Relationship Manager Jeff Burks: [email protected]

01/02/2024

Happy New Year from the Key Green Solutions team! We look forward to supporting our customers' green initiatives and helping meet their 2024 reporting goals.

09/11/2023

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Anesthetic Gas Reporting

“Anesthetic gases represent around 5 percent of a facility’s scope 1 GHG emissions and around 50 percent of an OR’s emissions.”
-Practice Greenhealth, Anesthetic gas how-to guide

Real change comes from intentional action. Healthcare systems need to have a well-rounded visual conception of the products being purchased so that changes can be implemented. Emissions from the OR are often overlooked, but contribute a substantial amount to the facility’s overall environmental impact.

Key Green Solutions offers a purchasing module that contains an anesthetic gas report. This report allows your system or facility to set a goal and view your historical baselines so that you can better establish a path to reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. After reaching out to your anesthetic gas vendors, we collect the data and upload it to our system. When you run the report, you (and your employees given access) will be able to view the costs, weights, and emissions for each type of anesthetic gas. Our reporting contains different combinations of tables and visuals; here is just one of the many graphs utilized by our customers:

If you’re interested in learning more about our purchasing module, please feel free to e-mail Relationship Manager Jeff Burks: [email protected]

04/25/2023

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Key Green Solutions Celebrates Earth Day with Kent Conservation District

Over the weekend the Key Green Solutions family assisted Kent Conservation District in one of their four annual tree and native plant sales. It was a great opportunity to celebrate Earth Day and help out with local conservation efforts at home in the beautiful state of Michigan.

With the help of volunteers, the Kent Conservation District was able to sell over 9,300 tree and shrub seedlings native to Michigan (42 different species offered!), along with facilitating important discussions with visitors about replanting, conservation, and invasive species awareness.

If your company would like to have a discussion about tracking data surrounding your conservation efforts, please reach out to Relationship Manager Jeff Burks: [email protected]

02/28/2023

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EXPERIENCE YOU NEED

Key Green Solutions is proud to celebrate its expertise. In fact, collectively our staff has nearly 100 years of experience tracking sustainability metrics! Each employee at Key Green Solutions works together to make tracking your facilities’ progress easier.

Key Green Solutions is made up a diverse group of individuals, all from different educational backgrounds and practices. Key Green Solutions has brought these individuals together, and these employees have been at Key Green Solutions combined for nearly 100 years. This means nearly 100 years of making connections with vendors, loading data, and providing reports to companies in a manner that makes interpreting data easy– all by the guidance of our customers since Key Green‘s inception. We have witnessed the growth of over 700 facilities in sustainability projects, and have been able to learn best practices being implemented across the nation.

If you would like a free demonstration, or to meet our team, please reach out to Relationship Manager Jeff Burks at [email protected], 616-915-9742

We would be happy to show you how our sustainability software can help you improve within your system and make an impression across your industry– here’s a link to help you learn more about our team and how we can help you. https://my.keygreensolutions.com/about-us