Accomplishments

Honors and Recognition

• Healthcare Climate Challenge (Healthcare Without Harm): Gold—Greenhouse Gas Reduction (2020) 
• Healthcare Climate Challenge (Healthcare Without Harm): Gold—Renewable Energy (2020) 
• Healthcare Climate Challenge (Healthcare Without Harm): Gold—Climate Resilience (2020) 
• Practice Greenhealth Circles of Excellence: Energy and Waste (2020)
• Practice Greenhealth Circles of Excellence: Less Waste and Climate (2019, 2018)
• Practice Greenhealth Emerald Award (2020, 2019, 2018)
• Practice Greenhealth Recognition Honoree: Greening the OR (2020, 2019, 2018)
• 2020 Challenge on Climate Change
• WI Sustainable Business Council's Sustainable Product of the Year award (2017)
• Practice Greenhealth Top 25 Environmental Excellence Award: 11 consecutive years
• Practice Greenhealth Circles of Excellence (2017): Greening the OR and Less Waste
• Practice Greenhealth Circles of Excellence (2016): Leadership, Less Waste, Energy and Climate
• Practice Greenhealth Visionary Leader Award – Jeff Thompson, MD (2015)
• One of America's 50 Greenest Hospitals (Becker's Hospital Review – 2015)
• Loyola (Chicago) University Quinlan School of Business Supply and Value Chain Center (SVCC) Excellence Award (2015)
• Business Friend of the Environment – Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce (2015)
• Amerinet Healthcare Achievement Award (2015)
• Energy-Independence Enterprise of the Year Award – RENEW Wiscosnin (2015)
• VHA Inc., Excellence Award for Sustainability (2014)
• White House Champion of Change – Jeff Thompson, MD (2013)
• Environmental Protection Agency Project of the Year: Landfill Gas-to-Energy (2012)
• Generator of the Year – RENEW Wisconsin (2012)
• Green Master – Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council
• Regional Progress Award – La Crosse Chamber of Commerce (2011)
• Green Business of the Year – Mississippi Valley Conservancy (2010)
• Steering Board Member – U.S. Department of Energy Hospital Energy Alliance