LEWISTON — St. Mary’s Health System was awarded the 2015 Greenhealth Partner for Change Award by Practice Greenhealth.

The award recognizes health care facilities that continuously improve and expand their mercury elimination, waste reduction, recycling and source reduction programs. At a minimum, facilities applying for this award must be recycling 15 percent of their total waste, have reduced regulated medical waste, are well along the way to mercury elimination, and have developed other successful pollution prevention programs in many different areas.

The award was presented May 19 in Dallas, Texas, at the CleanMed Conference & Exhibition.