Leading Climate Resilient and Low Carbon, Sustainable Health Systems
Increasingly, the executives, boards, and healthcare staff leading Canada’s health systems are recognizing the need to address global environmental challenges and important developments in the policy and practice environment. New Leadership (2021) and Governance (2022) standards include explicit requirements to consider environmental stewardship, with implications for patient engagement, enterprise risk management plans, capital investment plans, talent management and acquisition, procurement policies and practices and budgeting.
To support healthcare leaders in considering how to respond to these challenges and opportunities, CASCADES, the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care (CCGHC), and PEACH are collaborating with the Canadian College of Health Leaders (CCHL) to deliver a panel discussion on November 22 at 9am PT/12pm ET/1pm AT to review the challenges and opportunities facing health system leaders, discuss approaches to addressing emerging challenges, and introduce tools for strategy and action.
Video from Hospital Pharmacies and the Climate Crisis is now available
Join the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care, PEACH Health Ontario, and CASCADES as we welcome Dr. Shellyza Moledina Sajwani, for an overview of climate change's relevance to pharmacy. Specifically focusing on tangible objectives that can be completed within a hospital pharmacy setting, using the example of the Ottawa Hospital Pharmacy Environmental Stewardship Committee.
Is Your Healthcare Pension Aligned with Climate Safety? November 8 at 12pm ET, the Alliance for Healthier Communities will host a presentation from Shift: Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health. We'll cover how pension funds are exposed to the climate crisis and how pension funds are responding with a focus on the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP).
Hamilton FHT Green Initiative’s Cancer Screening Webinar on Wednesday November 2nd, 12-1pm ET or Thursday November 10th 8-9am ET. Join Dr. Meghan Davis to learn and discover practical tools that will make cancer screening easier in both the clinical setting and for QI projects
Climate-Conscious Inhaler Prescribing: Tackling Climate Change, One Pen Stroke at a Time: Wednesday, November 16, 12-1pm PT with speakers Val Stoynova and Celia Culley. By the end of the presentation, attendees will be able to discuss the impact of inhaler therapy on climate change, identify ways to change inhaler-prescribing practiced to provide climate-conscious care and recognize that “Green Care” is great care.
In order to equip physicians to guide the health and social services network, the population and the clientele towards enlightened choices in relation to climate change, the ASMPQ, the ASMUQ and the AMPQ have joined together to offer a training activity reflecting a patient-partner theme, adopting both a population and individual perspective. Journées de formation interdisciplinaire Séance 3 : Changements climatiques et santé : des médecins engages, Friday, November 18 08:45 - 17:30 (in French)
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CASCADES is a multi-year capacity-building initiative to address healthcare’s contribution to the climate crisis led by the Centre for Sustainable Health Systems, in partnership with the Healthy Populations Institute at Dalhousie University, the Planetary Healthcare Lab at the University of British Columbia, and the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care.
