Health Science Center Safety Manager Michael Gilmer (center) receives the H2E Environmental Leadership Award from Executive Director Laura Brannen and Mac Robinson, H2E board member and vice president of professional member groups.
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The Health Science Center received a 2007 Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E) Environmental Leadership Award and was inducted into the H2E Environmental Leadership Circle at the Environmental Excellence Summit May 14 in Minneapolis, Minn.

“It is an honor for our Health Science Center to receive this award,” Michael Gilmer, safety manager in the department of environmental health and safety, said.

Highest environmental award
The H2E Environmental Leadership Award is the highest award given to health care facilities for outstanding environmental performance. Recipients are distinguished by their pioneering efforts to reduce the health care industry’s environmental impact. Their innovative programs are setting industry standards for waste reduction and pollution prevention. The H2E Environmental Leadership Circle is an elite group of facilities that have integrated sustainable environmental programs into their core values.

“The U.T. Health Science Center is at the forefront of the trend toward a health care system that recognizes the fundamental link between healthy people and a healthy environment,” H2E Executive Director Laura Brannen said.

Jointly founded by the American Hospital Association, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Health Care Without Harm and the American Nurses Association, H2E is an independent not-for-profit organization focused on improving heath care’s environmental performance.