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The Practice Greenhealth 2026 Circle of Excellence Award in Green Building recognizes the UVA Health University Medical Center as a top ten highest performing healthcare facility in the sustainability category among thousands of hospitals in the United States. 

Get to know people in our UVA community–students, engineers, professors, researchers, and medical professionals–who are making impactful changes, both big and small, toward our ten bold sustainability goals. Meet Sarita, Josh, and Kristy.

Congratulations to the UVA Health University Medical Center on their recent Practice Greenhealth Partner Recognition Award. A focus on more sustainable operations supports healthier patients, staff, and communities.

Sustainability Fellow Anna Jett reflects on her work in sustainable healthcare. Read on to learn more about UVA Health’s exciting progress and accomplishments in sustainability.

Get to know people in our UVA community–students, engineers, professors, researchers, and medical professionals–who are making impactful changes, both big and small, toward our ten bold sustainability goals. Meet Zack, Carrie, and Glenn.

Some types of waste are much more difficult to dispose of than others, and hospital waste is one such case. Read on to see how UVA Health's medical waste team is treating regulated medical waste, maintaining a perfect record for 48 consecutive quarters.

UVA Health is helping support UVA's waste reduction efforts by incorporating recyclable packaging into pharmaceutical supply chains. Read on to learn more about how the UVA Health Pharmacy Enterprise team is keeping packaging out of landfills.

Two UVA Health Outpatient Surgery Center (OPSC) perioperative nurses - Alicia White, BSN, RN, CAPA, and Tabatha Gilbert, BSN, RN, CPAN - have been bringing awareness to the waste that medical operations produce. Read on to learn about their work towards waste reduction at UVA Health.

Meet members of our UVA community–students, faculty, engineers, facilities staff, and medical professionals–who are making impactful changes toward our ten bold sustainability goals. "Faces of Sustainability" aims to get to know them and inspire you with the stories of these change-makers’ efforts happening right here on Grounds, both large and small! Below meet Yushun, Dr. Ahdoot, and Tytus.

UVA Health University Medical Center Battle Building earned a Greening the OR Recognition Award from Practice Greenhealth for its efforts to reduce waste and find innovative sustainability solutions. Read the joint press release.