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How Vail Health is pursuing sustainability goals to promote human and environmental health

Health care system receives award for sustainability work, including 2024 diversion rate of 26%

Vail Health is continually making its system more sustainable to promote a healthier future for its patients, staff and the environment. 

Tim Ivancich, Vail Health’s sustainability supervisor, has led the sustainability department for nearly six years.

“Human health is directly affected by our environmental health,” Ivancich said. “If we don’t protect our environmental health, we are going to start to see (health) issues in humans … The ecosystem services and environment help protect our human health through many different ways, and we need to help protect those ecosystem services. The “triple bottom line” is “planet, profit, people,” Ivancich said.

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