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Yukon Home Care embraces e-bikes for service delivery

Working collaboratively with other government departments, First Nations governments, medical facilities and community partners, the Yukon Home Care Program (YHCP) provides a multitude of territory-wide services such as care coordination, home support, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, social work and nursing. Service delivery in Whitehorse is...

Environmental benchmarking for hospitals: The Green Hospital Scorecard is free for hospitals across Canada

The Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care is pleased to be offering the Green Hospital Scorecard to facilities across Canada, thanks to support from our new partner - Health Canada! As hosts of Canada's only comprehensive environmental benchmarking tool for health care, the Coalition is excited to continue...

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Health care has massive potential to tackle climate change!

By  Dr. Myles Sergeant Many of us worry about the negative impacts of climate change...

Energy efficiency vital to health care and achieving climate action goals

Health-care facilities like hospitals and long-term care homes are energy-intensive places. And their energy...

Creating a sustainable Canadian health system in a climate crisis

Climate and environmental change threaten patient health and the systems that deliver care. At...

New Green health care support available for Ontario health sector

By Myles Sergeant, Sujane Kandasamy and Linda Varangu In Canada, about five percent of...

Has your health care facility already experienced climate-related hazards?

Many health care facilities across North America have already experienced extreme weather events (e.g....

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