Accomplishments
We are proud of our accomplishments and would like to help you achieve your energy and sustainability goals. We have proven there are sustainable approaches to energy utilization that go hand-in-hand with solid financial business decisions. We can show you how developing or enhancing a portfolio of sustainability projects can help lower energy costs while improving the health of the communities you serve.
We offer on-site seminars, energy check-ups, leadership engagement services, facilitation, and long-term transformation services to help your organization succeed in small- and large-scale, sustainable change.
Energy independence
On October 14, 2014, Gundersen Health System became the first health system in the United States to attain energy independence by producing more energy that it consumed.
Honors
- Healthcare Climate Challenge (Healthcare Without Harm): Partner for Change Award (2023)
- Healthcare Climate Challenge (Healthcare Without Harm): Partner for Change Award (2022)
- Healthcare Climate Challenge (Healthcare Without Harm): Partner for Change Award (2021)
- 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
Contact Us
Gundersen Envision®
1900 South Avenue
La Crosse, WI 54601
Phone:
(608) 775-0880
(855) 669-1653 (toll-free)
Email:
[email protected]