Healthcare’s emissions footprint is measurable. Your certification may already require it.
The Greenplaces team will be at CleanMed 2026 — the premier national conference for healthcare sustainability. If your organization holds or is pursuing The Joint Commission’s Sustainable Healthcare Certification, emissions tracking isn’t optional. We can help you build the infrastructure to meet that requirement and make it work for your team year over year.
We’ll be at CleanMed 2026 to show you what’s possible.
Why we’re there
Carbon accounting built for healthcare’s operational reality
Hospitals don’t fit standard emissions reporting templates. You operate 24 hours a day across multiple facilities, with complex energy, waste, and procurement systems that span dozens of departments and vendors. Greenplaces gives healthcare sustainability teams a structured platform to collect, calculate, and report emissions data across all three scopes — in the formats your certification, board, and stakeholders require — without creating a full-time data management burden.
Joint Commission certification readiness
We structure your emissions baseline and ongoing data collection to meet the Joint Commission’s specific requirements — covering the right source categories, converting to MTCO₂e, and maintaining the 24-month continuous record required for recertification. Your data is audit-ready before your review begins.
Scope 1, 2, and 3 carbon accounting
From purchased electricity and on-site energy generation to supply chain emissions and waste disposal, Greenplaces calculates your full hospital footprint using GHG Protocol methodology — giving you credible, comparable data that holds up to third-party verification and stakeholder scrutiny.
Reduction tracking and year-over-year reporting
Meeting the recertification requirement means demonstrating actual emissions reduction over 24 consecutive months. Greenplaces tracks your progress against baseline, surfaces the highest-impact reduction opportunities, and generates the structured reports your certification reviewer — and your board — needs to see.
The Joint Commission Sustainable Healthcare Certification
If your hospital holds this certification, emissions tracking is a requirement — not a goal
The Joint Commission’s Sustainable Healthcare Certification — launched in 2024 and already held by more than 120 hospitals — carries a specific and non-negotiable emissions data requirement. Certified organizations must collect baseline greenhouse gas emissions data across at least three emission source categories and develop an action plan to reduce them. At recertification, they must demonstrate 24 months of data showing actual reduction. That’s not a sustainability aspiration. It’s a documented compliance obligation tied to your certification status.
For hospitals pursuing the certification for the first time, the requirement to have baseline emissions data in place before review begins means the groundwork needs to happen well in advance. Greenplaces gives healthcare organizations the carbon accounting software to meet these requirements — systematically, auditibly, and without creating a parallel data management burden for your sustainability team.
What the certification requires of your emissions program
The certification covers greenhouse gas reduction strategies across buildings and energy, transportation, anesthetic gases and inhalers, and waste. Certified organizations must convert measurements to metric tons of CO₂ equivalents (MTCO₂e) and demonstrate a structured reduction trajectory over time.
Initial certification
Baseline emissions data for at least 3 GHG emission sources, plus a documented action plan to reduce them.
Recertification
24 months of continuous emissions data demonstrating actual reduction across those 3 emission sources.
Reporting format
All measurements must be converted to metric tons of CO₂ equivalents and maintained in an audit-ready format.
Covered categories
Buildings & energy, transportation, anesthetic gases & inhalers, and waste — full Scope 1 and 2, plus selected Scope 3.
Meet the team
Find Greenplaces at CleanMed
Greenplaces is attending CleanMed 2026 as a participant: no booth, no exhibit table. We’re there to learn and to connect one-on-one with healthcare sustainability professionals who are navigating the same emissions data challenges our platform is built to solve. If you want to talk through your certification requirements, your current carbon accounting approach, or just where to start, reach out before the conference and we’ll make time to connect in person.
Go deeper
Healthcare sustainability isn’t just a mission — it’s increasingly a documented obligation
From The Joint Commission’s Sustainable Healthcare Certification to Practice Greenhealth’s Environmental Excellence Awards and the Health Care Without Harm Race to Zero commitment, healthcare organizations are navigating a growing set of emissions tracking and reduction requirements. Greenplaces gives sustainability teams the platform to meet those obligations without building a data management operation from scratch.
