Kimball Sustainable Healthcare

Building sustainability solutions for hospitals and healthcare that reduce emissions, achieve zero waste, lower costs, and strengthen community health and resilience

Strategic Planning

Learn | Prioritize | Plan

Data-driven multi-year planning, timeline, budget, resourcing, and activation

Executive engagement, leadership development, and visioning

Data Management

Collect | Analyze | Apply

Scopes 1, 2 and 3 GHG inventories

Awards and assessments for Practice Greenhealth, The Joint Commission, Healthcare Anchor Network

Feasibility studies, LCAs, evaluations

Programs | Projects

Design | Pilot | Deliver

Zero waste, sustainable procurement, clinical sustainability expertise

Strategic workgroup standup, change management expertise, program management, coordination, and staff development

Engagement

Educate | Communicate | Inspire

Education and engagement programs for leadership, staff and community

Communications strategy, organization, management

Content, publications, webinars, events

Our Specialty

  • We are change management experts leveraging the culture, standards, and workflows of healthcare to integrate sustainability into your organization.

Is your organization ready to be a positive force for climate action?

KSH believes in the power of healthcare to drive solutions to the planet’s environmental challenges. Strategies such as climate action, pollution prevention, and resource conservation enable healthcare to improve planetary and community health. Our comprehensive services empower our healthcare clients to execute impactful sustainability solutions. Founded by a clinician and led by a team of industry experts, KSH combines best practices in organizational change management, data measurement and analysis, strategic planning, program implementation, and engagement, to build best-in class sustainability strategies that align environmental performance of the industry with the mission of healthcare.

Results Driven

  • Combining clinical and subject-matter expertise, a data-driven approach and meaningful engagement with staff, we build sustainability solutions that deliver results. Our solutions leverage the culture, standards, and workflows, of healthcare. We design and implement comprehensive strategies and programs that effectively reduce your carbon footprint and lower costs while prioritizing quality, safety, and value in healthcare delivery.

Our solutions and support - from strategic planning to project implementation - will help you meet your sustainability goals.

  • "KSH contributes invaluable clinical and sustainability expertise, professionalism, and an understanding of how to achieve positive change in healthcare."

    Director of Sustainability

  • "The sustainable procurement program and policy is something for our institution to be proud of...this is industry-leading."

    Executive Director Hospitality and Sustainability

  • "KSH developed my sustainability knowledge as an executive leader overseeing a new program."

    Chief Administrative Officer

  • "Oh, thank goodness. The KSH toolkit is exactly what I need to organize our data for annual reporting."

    Sustainability Program Manager

  • "The best part of joining the sustainability project is that you get to work with Erika and her team."

    School of Medicine Faculty

  • "I really would not have been able to get [the award application] submitted without this team. I have worked with contractors in the past on projects like this and I can't underscore how much this team stands out. Great job!"

    Sustainability Program Manager

  • "Your contributions over the past two fiscal years have significantly improve[d] refuse management across San Francisco hospitals. We appreciate your partnership."

    Commercial Zero Waste Assistant Coordinator

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