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Key Green Solutions Enters Agreement to Provide Exclusive Sustainability Management Software to Ridgeview Medical Center
August 25, 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Key Green Solutions LLC (KGS), a leading hospital sustainability management software company, announces that it has entered into an agreement with Ridgeview Medical Center to provide exclusive Sustainability Management Software to Ridgeview in Waconia, Minnesota.
Jeff Burks, Relationship Manager for KGS, commented, "We are very pleased that Ridgeview has selected KGS as the provider of its sustainability management software. Ridgeview is a national sustainability leader and multiple award winning organization through their successful model for growing sustainability in their facilities. We welcome Todd and his high quality Ridgeview team to the KGS family and are looking forward to a mutually rewarding partnership.”
Todd Wilkening, Director of Facilities for Ridgeview states “choosing Key Green Solutions is the right choice for Ridgeview. It contributes to our annual score card with Practice Green Health and also provides us comparables against like hospitals in terms of square footage and business units.”
About Ridgeview
Ridgeview Medical Center and Clinics have a well-earned reputation for clinical excellence and compassionate care. Our patients tell us the Ridgeview experience is remarkably different from what they have encountered elsewhere. In fact, we’re one of the few remaining independent health care systems in Minnesota, allowing us to respond to local and community needs through innovative care, cutting-edge service and partnerships with the best specialists.
Ridgeview has won Practice Greenhealth’s Environmental Leadership Circle Award for five consecutive years (2007-2011). The Environmental Leadership Award from Practice Greenhealth award is given to health care organizations for outstanding environmental performance and achievements in energy conservation, waste reduction and leadership in the development of benchmarking standards for the industry.
Ridgeview was also Minnesota’s first health care facility to be part of Healthy Environment's (H2E) Top Environmental Leadership Circle. To be considered, health care organizations must meet the criteria for the Practice Greenhealth Making Medicine Mercury-Free award, recycle at least 25 percent of their total waste and have implemented numerous and innovative pollution prevention programs.
About Key Green Solutions, LLC.
Key Green Solutions is a leading provider of a sustainability management software suite for Health Care. The organization is focused on hospitals and their quest for increasing their efficiency in managing and monitoring energy, waste, water, and hazardous waste as they deliver care in their facilities. KGS also provides a unique project management module within their software suite that helps to develop a “culture of sustainable practices” and “cost savings” management. The Company offers its software suite to hospitals, shared hospital laundry facilities and insurance companies to improve the organization by measuring and managing inputs and outputs of the facility. The product ultimately helps hospitals to reduce the cost of patient care in the facilities it serves. For more information, visit the KGS website at www.keygreensolutions.com .
Media Contact:
Key Green Solutions, LLC
Mark E Huizenga – Managing Partner
616.735.2950
mark@huizenga-consulting.com
