How Vail Health Is Pursuing Sustainability Goals to Promote Human and Environmental Health

Vail Health’s sustainability initiatives consistently enhance operations to foster a healthier future for patients, staff, and the environment.

In 2025, Vail Health received the Partner Recognition Award, an Environmental Excellence Award from Practice Greenhealth. Practice Greenhealth is a third-party network that evaluates health care entities for environmental sustainability. The award recognizes facilities that have committed to and achieved environmental improvement, like waste reduction and renewable energy adoption, across several areas of the organization. 

According to Tim Ivancich, the sustainability supervisor at Vail Health, who has led the sustainability department for nearly six years, “Human health is directly affected by our environmental health. If we don’t protect our environmental health, we are going to start to see (health) issues in humans,” he explained. “The ecosystem services and environment help protect our human health in many different ways, and we need to help protect those ecosystem services. The ‘triple bottom line’ is ‘planet, profit, people.'”

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