Four health systems — Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland-based University Hospitals, LaCrosse, Wis.-based Gundersen Health System and Renton, Wash.-based Providence Health & Services — have helped launch Solar.Clinic, a program to facilitate health systems go solar and offer solar energy to their employees, patients and community.
Solar.Clinic is a partnership with those systems, Health Care Without Harm, Practice Greenhealth and Geostellar, the nation's first online solar marketplace.
Participating health systems get discounts on solar energy installation, equipment and financing on their own facilities as well as on the homes of employees, patients and people in the community.
"Geostellar has a proven track record of working with leading U.S. corporations to provide this important benefit to their employees," said Eric Lerner, director of the U.S. Climate and Health program for Health Care Without Harm. "Solar.Clinic provides an important opportunity for health systems to include their employees in their efforts to be more environmentally sustainable and to demonstrate climate leadership."
Mark Platt, senior vice president for business services at Gundersen, said, "I contracted for the installation of solar panels on my own home through the Geostellar platform. I am very pleased with the results and will happily recommend the program and services to my colleagues, friends and neighbors."