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Other Green Efforts Reported Around SSM
SSM Health Care-St. Louis
Garbage to Gas
SSM Health Care-St. Louis has a waste hauling contract
with a local landfill that converts non-recyclable waste
to methane gas for use at a local high school and a
greenhouse. In 2011, the landfill plans to expand its
conversion capacity to meet the power demands of
about 10,000 homes.
SSM DePaul Health Center sent the largest amount of
waste to the landfill of all SSMHC-St. Louis facilities
— 2.1 million pounds in 2009.
Single Stream Recycling
The North Operating Group of SSM Health Care-
St. Louis is planning on using single stream recycling
in the near future. Single stream allows recyclable
material such as boxes, folders, white paper, books,
newspapers, aluminum cans, and plastic bottles, to
be placed together in a single container. Sorting occurs
after the material is hauled away. This program encourages
recycling because it reduces the time and
money spent to sort recyclable material.
Bone and Joint Hospital at St. Anthony – Oklahoma City
• The use of paints made from organic compounds that produce low or
no fumes.
• Reducing temperatures in hot water supplies to conserve energy.
• Long-life lamps installed in parking garage.
• Screensavers with “green” tips for employees
SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center
• New photo sensors in the hospital’s main atrium shut down lights when
sunlight reaches a high enough level.
• More efficient light sources in the parking garage, and photo sensors that
shut down lights along the edge of the garage when the sun is out.
• Light sensors in offices and med rooms that shut off the lights when they
are not in use.
SSM St. Joseph Health Center, St. Charles, Mo.
• The hospital has installed some TPO (thermoplastic polyolefin) roofs, which
reflect heat and are energy efficient.
• New chillers and Air Conditioning Handling (AHU) units at St. Joseph
make air conditioning more energy efficient.
• St. Joseph, as well as many other SSM facilities, uses environmentally
safe fluorescent tubes that last longer and do not contain mercury or
other toxic materials.
SSM Corporate Office,
St. Louis
The Great Escape
Alongside the SSM Corporate Headquarters, a
landscaping project sponsored by the Preservation
of the Earth Committee was completed in 2004. The
project was certified as a Backyard Wildlife Habitat
by National Wildlife Federation. Native Missouri
plants and flowers
provide a mini refuge
for people and animals.
Clockwise from top: The
Great Escape in spring;
Native plants also adorn the
front of the building, some
surrounding the statue of
St. Francis; The Great Escape
during a winter sunset.
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