Introduction
Climate change poses risks to health care facilities in Canada. To help hospitals assess their resiliency to climate-related risks, a toolkit has been developed for use by health care facility officials. The toolkit includes a checklist which addresses resiliency to climate change in many areas, such as emergency management, facilities management, health care services and supply chain management. It has been developed for senior level official(s) who are knowledgeable in these areas.
The toolkit also includes a Facilitators Guide. The Facilitators Guide is a presentation which facilitators can tailor to the specific needs of their health care facilities. The presentation outlines instructions for conducting the resiliency assessment and can be used to facilitate the assessment discussion, engage facility officials, and capture information.
General Instructions
This checklist includes closed and open-ended questions. For each question in the checklist, please respond using the spaces provided. You may require additional resources when responding to questions.
Please use the following answer key to help guide your responses:
- "Yes" indicates commitment to action. Action needs to be completed or in progress.
- "Somewhat" indicates that action is planned but concrete action has not yet been taken.
- "No" indicates that no action is planned or that no action has been taken.
- "I don't know" indicates that not enough information is available to respond.
After each question, there is a text box for notes. Please use this space to provide additional information. For example, you may wish to document discussion points, reasoning for responses and / or to indicate if others should be consulted to help answer the question.
You can also download a PDF of the checklist: click here.
Before You Start: Guidance on Question 1
In the first question of the checklist, you will be asked to identify the potential climate risks faced by your facility. If you do not already have complete information on climate impacts in your region, here are some suggested ways of collecting that information:
- Connect with other staff members at your facility to identify recent disaster-related impacts on the facility, and determine whether any records related to those impacts are available.
- Check whether information on climate risks is available via your provincial government (e.g.
).
- Search for information on local/regional climate risks in your municipality.
