UCSF Health has been recognized with the Practice Greenhealth Emerald Award for overall sustainability practices for 17 consecutive years.
This includes special recognition for:
The Practice Greenhealth Emerald Award recognizes outstanding hospitals from within the Partner for Change applicants. This competitive award recognizes the top 20 percent of applicants and is focused on advanced sustainability programs and exemplary scores in a range of categories.
The System for Change Award recognizes health systems that are working cohesively to set system-wide sustainability goals, track performance data, benchmark, and support intra organizational learning and implementation within their institutions.
The Greenhealth Partner for Change Award recognizes superior performance in environmental
sustainability, covering a range of different sustainability programs and activities. Winners have also made substantive progress on mercury elimination.
The Circle of Excellence Awards celebrate hospitals that have not only earned an award for all-around sustainability achievement but who have also been identified as the top-scoring programs for each category of sustainability.
See below for a detailed list of all Practice Greenhealth awards UCSF Health has won in the past:
| Year | Award Received | Special Recognition |
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| 2025 | Greenhealth Emerald | Emerald, Circle of Excellence- Transportation, System for Change (UC Health) |
| 2025 | Partner for Change (UCSF Health Saint Mary's) | |
| 2024 | Greenhealth Emerald | Greening the OR, Circle of Excellence - Climate |
| 2023 | Greenhealth Emerald | Greening the OR, Circle-Energy, Circle – Climate, Circle – Green Bldg; Circle of Excellence - Food (part of UC Health) |
| 2022 | Greenhealth Emerald | Circle – Transportation, Emerald, Greening the OR |
| 2021 | Environmental Excellence | |
| 2020 | Greenhealth Emerald | Greening the OR, Emerald, System for Change |
| 2019 | Greenhealth Emerald | |
| 2018 | Greenhealth Emerald | Circle – Climate |
| 2017 | Greenhealth Emerald | Greening the OR |
| 2016 | Top 25 Environmental Excellence | Circle – Climate, Circle – Green Bldg, Greening the OR |
| 2015 | Partner for Change | Top 25, Circle – Climate, Circle – Green Bldg, Circle - Leadership |
| 2014 | Partner for Change | Circle – Climate, Circle – Green Bldg, Emerald |
| 2013 | Partner for Change with Distinction | |
| 2012 | Partner for Change with Distinction | |
| 2011 | Partner for Change with Distinction | |
| 2011 | Partner for Change | |
| 2010 | Partner for Change | |
