Submitted by Providence Saint Peter Hospital
Providence St. Peter Hospital has been named a Grand Award winner in the 2013 Professional Grounds Management Society (PGMS) Green Star Awards for health care facilities. The award will be presented at the PGMS Awards Banquet Oct. 25 in Louisville, Kentucky. The awarding organization was first established in 1911.
The goals of the Green Star Professional Grounds Management Awards program are:
- To bring national recognition to grounds manicured with a high degree of excellence.
- To recognize individual professional efforts leading to high maintenance standards and high quality appearance of the landscape.
- To challenge those responsible for maintenance of grounds throughout the country to achieve a higher level of excellence. In sponsoring this awards program, the Professional Grounds Management Society wishes to extend its mission in promoting well-maintained landscapes throughout the country.
For more information, go to www.PGMS.org
“We take pride in our grounds. It’s another way we can ease our patient’s way,” said Facility Manager Keith Deline. “It is an honor to be recognized for the beauty we provide to our patients and their families and friends.”
In the award announcement, Providence St. Peter Hospital was noted for having a total of four acres of planting with two acres that are seasonal all of which were considered to be at a high level of landscaping design while utilizing native plants, minimal irrigation and pesticide as well as weed killer free practices.
In other comments the Green Star Award judges noted that St. Peter Hospital has a very nice variety of planted materials, employs the use of boulders, hardscape and artwork at the highest level of quality while protecting and preserving the mature trees.
“We are very proud of our landscape management plan,” said Deline. “It includes onsite walking trails, a program that replants more than 100 pine trees every year and, most importantly, beautiful views of the grounds and local mountains from almost every patient room providing a greater level of holistic healing.
“Our promise to each patient – know me, care for me, ease my way – is clearly visible in our landscaping.”
The hospital is also a contributor to the local Kiwanis Charitable Wood Program. As a result of the major snow storm of January of 2012 the hospital lost some of its mature trees. These trees were cut as necessary with the wood going to Kiwanis for donation to needy members of the local community.
