About the project

The Green Hospital Scorecard (GHS) is the only comprehensive health care environmental performance benchmarking tool in Canada measuring energy conservation, water conservation, waste management and recycling, corporate commitment and pollution prevention. Participating hospitals report on their environmental and sustainability initiatives through a questionnaire and receive a Green Hospital Scorecard summarizing their year-over-year environmental performance relative to their peers.

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Project Team

Linda Varangu

Advisor on Climate Change

Kent Waddington

Communications Advisor

Shawn Shi

Senior Software Engineer

Autumn Sypus

Marketing and Outreach Coordinator

Advisors

Edward Rubinstein - Director, Environmental Compliance, Energy & Sustainability

University Health Network

Marianne Dawson - Sustainability Consultant

Fraser Health, Providence Health Care, Provincial Health Services Authority, Vancouver Coastal Health

Project Sponsor 

For another year the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care will be offering the Green Hospital Scorecard to facilities across Canada, thanks to support from our new partner - Health Canada!

 

Award Sponsors

Through our annual Canadian Health Care Sustainability Awards, the Coalition recognizes the country’s top-performing participants from the previous year's Green Hospital Scorecard Program. To learn more about how to become an award sponsor, contact our executive director Myles Sergeant at myles@greenhealthcare.ca.

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2021 Green Health Care Awards

The 2021 Green Health Care Awards were announced Wednesday September 21st and Thursday September 22nd, 2022 respectively, at virtual award presentations held by the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care. The awards, made possible with support from Ontario’s Save on Energy initiative, honour Canada’s most sustainable health care organisations.

Read our media release

Data call for the 2022 Green Hospital Scorecard (2021 data)

The Coalition is committed to working with our hospital partners to benchmark environmental sustainability. We will be announcing our next steps with the Green Hospital Scorecard in the next several weeks. Please stay tuned for these announcements through our newsletter The Green Digest, and we will also be reaching out to existing participants directly.

Project Background

The Green Hospital Scorecard (GHS) is the only comprehensive health care environmental performance benchmarking tool in Canada measuring energy conservation, water conservation, waste management and recycling, corporate commitment and pollution prevention. Participating hospitals report on their environmental and sustainability initiatives through a questionnaire and receive a Green Hospital Scorecard summarizing their year-over-year environmental performance relative to their peers.

2020 Green Hospital Scorecard Review Webinar

On Wednesday, August 4th, 2021, the Coalition hosted a webinar to review the new GHS survey, outline how to submit your data, walked through the various changes.

Project History

Project History
In 2013, the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) developed and administered the Green Hospital Scorecard through the Green Hospital Champion Fund and supportive funding from the Ministry of Consumer and Government Services. That program ended in early 2016, and after an internal review the OHA decided to seek an appropriate organization to assume ongoing operation of the GHS. As a historic collaborator on the development of the GHS and on the OHA’s Green Health Care Awards since 2001, the Coalition was a logical choice to carry forward the delivery of the GHS.

The Coalition will again deliver the 2017 GHS program. Check out our Green Hospital Scorecard FAQ for more information.

Project Goals, Objectives, and Performance Results

The main purpose of the GHS is to provide a vehicle for standardized, sector-specific environmental benchmarking and to connect hospitals with environmental information that will assist them in achieving environmental and economic benefits such as reduced greenhouse gas emissions and improved energy and water efficiency. The GHS allows for enhancement of existing benchmark data, refinement of collection methodologies, and the creation of meaningful reporting data to inform the sector, hospitals’ executives and future conservation programming. The intent of the program is to raise the hospital organization's awareness, motivate change, and incite improvements in the environmental sphere by recognizing each participating hospital's achievements.

The Scorecard shows a hospital's environmental performance in five areas: Energy, Water, Waste, Pollution Prevention, and Corporate Leadership. The GHS:

  • Provides a high-level snapshot of the organization's environmental performance against a backdrop of de-identified peer data.
  • Helps identify potential areas for improvements to environmental performance and operational efficiency
  • Informs target-setting
  • Offers the opportunity to be individually recognized through annual Gold, Silver and Bronze level achievements
  • Encourages excellence by honouring select participating organisations with annual Green Health Care Awards.

See a copy of a sample Scorecard here.

Participation

Participation

Participation is FREE for hospitals. The 2019 GHS collecting 2018 data is currently closed.

At this time, only hospitals are invited to participate. If you are a Long Term Care Facilitator interested in how we can offer this opportunity please contact Krishna Akella, at krishna@greenhealthcare.ca 

Information on how the CCGHC will handle data confidentiality can be found in the Green Hospital Scorecard FAQ. 

IFHE 2022 Awards
IFHE is launching its first-ever energy awards program to honour health care facilities for reducing their energy use. Any health care facility with a 5% or greater energy reduction is eligible. Winners will be recognized at the IFHE 2022 Congress in Toronto. CHES recently hosted a webinar in collaboration with the Coalition to provide information and instructions on how facilities can participate in this new IFHE Award Program.

The Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care is very pleased to be collaborating with the CHES 2022 National Conference | IFHE 2022 Congress to provide this international award opportunity to health care organisations throughout Canada!

Watch video below:

2019 Green Hospital Scorecard Report

2019 Green Hospital Scorecard Report

Click here to read the full report.

2018 Green Hospital Scorecard Report

2018 Green Hospital Scorecard Report

Click here to read the full report.

2017 Green Hospital Scorecard Report

2017 Green Hospital Scorecard Report

Click here to read the full 2018 GHS report

2016 Green Hospital Scorecard Report

2013, 2014 GHS - OHA Reports

2016 Green Hospital Scorecard Report

Click here to read the full 2018 GHS report

2021 Green Hospital Scorecard Results

Green Health Care Award Webinars - Celebrating the 2021 Green Hospital Scorecard Results

1. Click HERE to watch the Green Health Care Awards Top Performers and Green Hospital of the Year webinar, hosted on September 21st, 2022.

In celebration of the 2021 Green Hospital Scorecard results, this webinar provided an opportunity for presentations from various hospitals on their successes. This webinar also included a ceremony  presenting awards in a total of 4 categories, including top performers in Water, Waste, Pollution Prevention, Leadership, and the Green Hospitals of the Year.

View the presentation slides HERE.

2. Click HERE to watch the Green Health Care Awards Energy and Energy Behaviour webinar, hosted on September 22nd, 2022.

The Coalition hosted a webinar that included hospital sites from across Canada celebrating achievements in sustainability. In celebration of the Green Hospital Scorecard results, there was a presentation on sustainability successes in health care related to energy and energy behaviour. This webinar included presentations profiling top performers in energy efficiency and a ceremony presenting Green Hospital Scorecard energy and energy behaviour awards.

View the presentation slides HERE.

These awards were made possible with funding support from Ontario's Save on Energy initiative.

2019 Green Hospital Scorecard Results

Green Health Care Award Webinars - Celebrating the 2019 Green Hospital Scorecard Results

1. Click HERE to watch the Green Health Care Awards Top Performers webinar, hosted on December 16th, 2020.

In celebration of the 2019 Green Hospital Scorecard results, this webinar provided an opportunity for presentations from various hospitals on their successes. This webinar also included a ceremony  presenting awards in a total of 4 categories, including top performers in Water, Waste, Pollution Prevention, Leadership, and the Green Hospitals of the Year.

A huge thank you to the Green Hospital the Year Award sponsor, Medtronic!

2. Click HERE to watch the Ontario Green Health Care Awards Energy webinar, hosted on December 10th, 2020.

The Coalition hosted a webinar that included hospital sites from across Canada celebrating achievements in sustainability. In celebration of the Green Hospital Scorecard results, there was a presentation on sustainability successes in health care related to energy and energy behaviour. This webinar included presentations profiling top performers in energy efficiency and a ceremony presenting Green Hospital Scorecard energy and energy behaviour awards.

Many thanks to IESO, our Energy Awards sponsor!

2018 Green Hospital Scorecard Results

Green Health Care Award Webinars - Celebrating the 2018 Green Hospital Scorecard Results

Click here to watch the Green Health Care Awards Top Performers webinar, hosted on December 11th, 2019.

Event description: This webinar celebrated achievements in sustainability from hospitals across Canada. The Coalition hosted webinar included: award presentations, profile of top performers and program successes, and shared the latest environmental innovations in the field. The 2018 Green Health Care Awards webinar celebrated initiatives from non-accute, community, academic and small hospitals. A total of 16 awards were presented to top performers in energy, water, waste and Green Hospital of the Year.

Click here to watch the Ontario Green Health Care Awards Energy webinar, hosted on December 12th, 2019.

Event description: The Coalition hosted a webinar that included hospital sites from across Canada celebrating achievements in sustainability. In celebration of the Green Hospital Scorecard results, there was a presentation on sustainability successes in health care related to energy and energy behaviour. This webinar included presentations profiling top performers in energy efficiency and a ceremony presenting 11 Green Hospital Scorecard energy awards.

Click here to watch the Green Hospital Scorecard - Innovation webinar, hosted on December 16th, 2019.

Event description: The Green Hospital Scorecard should act as a tool for innovation within health care sites. This webinar focused on the process of innovation within health care sites, and how the 2018 Green Hospital Scorecard has added various categories to gather more in-depth data.

2018 Green Hospital Scorecard Webinars

Educational webinar

Review of the GHS survey, how to submit your data and an overview of the new sections (Transportation, Food, Climate Change, Energy Behaviour).

  • This webinar was hosted on Thursday, February 14 2019. Click here to view slides.

Energy Behaviour webinar

With the generous support from SaveONEnergy, we will also be offering a introduction and overview on Energy Behaviour webinar.

  • The webinar was hosted on Wednesday, February 20 2019. Click here to view the slides.
  • Click here to view the newly added scorecard questions on Energy Behaviour.
2017 Green Hospital Scorecard Results

2017 Ontario Green Health Care Award Webinars

Click here to watch the Ontario Green Health Care Awards Top Performers webinar, hosted on June 26th, 2018.

Event description: This webinar celebrated achievements in sustainability from hospitals across Canada. The Coalition hosted webinar included: award presentations, profile of top performers and program successes, and shared the latest environmental innovations in the field. The Ontario Green Health Care Awards webinar celebrated initiatives from non-accute, community, academic and small hospitals. A total of 16 awards were presented to top performers in energy, water, waste and Green Hospital of the Year.

Click here to view the Energy Focus: Ontario Green Health Care Awards webinar, hosted on June 28th, 2018. Sponsored by Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO).

Event description: The Coalition along with hospital sites from across Canada celebrated achievements in sustainability. This free webinar included: an awards presentation, profiling top performers in energy and program successes, and sharing the latest environmental innovations in the field. This webinar will highlighted and celebrated achievement from non-accute, community, academic and small hospitals.

Click here to read the 2017 GHS Guidance on Interpretation of the Scorecard.

For questions please contact dan@greenhealthcare.ca

Click here for a link to the 2017 GHS educational webinar hosted on November 28th, 2017.

2016 Green Hospital Scorecard Results

2016 Green Hospital Scorecard Winners Results and Resources

Presentation on 2016 GHS winners

Click here for webinars, sector reports, and case studies from the 2016 GHS program.

Click here for a link to the 2017 GHS educational webinar hosted on November 28th, 2017.

2021 GHS Award Winners

Academic
Hamilton Health Sciences – Ron Joyce Children’s Health Centre (Hamilton ON)
Community
Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (Barrie, ON)
Non-Acute
Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital (Toronto ON)
Small
Four Counties Health Services (Newbury ON)

Academic
The Ottawa Hospital – General Hospital (Ottawa ON)
Community
Markham Stouffville Hospital (Markham ON)
Non-Acute
Provincial Health Services Authority – Sunny Hill Health Centre (Vancouver BC)
Small
Four Counties Health Services (Newbury ON)

Academic
Trillium Health Partners – Queensway Health Centre (Toronto ON)
Community
Ross Memorial Hospital (Lindsay ON)
Non-Acute
Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital (Toronto ON)
Small
Kemptville District Hospital (Kemptville ON)

Academic
Unity Health Toronto – St. Michael’s Hospital (Toronto ON)
Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto ON)
Unity Health Toronto – St. Joseph’s Health Centre (Toronto ON)
Unity Health Toronto – Providence Healthcare (Toronto ON)
Community
Northumberland Hills Hospital (Cobourg ON)
Markham Stouffville Hospital (Markham ON)
Non-Acute
West Park Healthcare Centre (Toronto ON)
Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital (Toronto ON)
Small
Kemptville District Hospital (Kemptville ON)

Academic
University Health Network (Toronto ON)
Sinai Health – Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto ON)
Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg (Winnipeg MB)
Unity Health Toronto (Toronto ON)
Trillium Health Partners (Toronto ON)
Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto ON)
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Toronto ON)
London Health Sciences Centre – University Hospital (London ON)
Rockyview General Hospital (Calgary AB)

Community
Peterborough Regional Health Centre (Peterborough ON)
Non-Acute
Sinai Health – Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital (Toronto ON)
West Park Healthcare Centre (Toronto ON)
Small
Kemptville District Hospital (Kemptville ON)

Academic
Unity Health Toronto – Providence Healthcare (Toronto ON)
Community
Northumberland Hills Hospital (Cobourg ON)
Non-Acute
St. Joseph’s Health Care – Parkwood Institute Mental Health Care Building (London ON)
Small
Four Counties Health Services (Newbury ON) – Small

Academic
Providence Health Care – St. Paul’s Hospital (Vancouver BC)
Community
Fraser Health Authority – Langley Memorial Hospital (Langley BC)

St. Joseph’s Health Care London (London ON)

Award Sponsors

Through our annual Canadian Health Care Sustainability Awards, the Coalition recognizes the country’s top-performing participants from the previous year's Green Hospital Scorecard Program. To learn more about how to become an award sponsor, contact our executive director Neil Ritchie at neil.ritchie@greenhealthcare.ca.

Coalition Project Members

Linda Varangu, Senior Advisor, Climate Change - Project Advisor
Kent Waddington, Communications Director - Project Advisor

Project Contact

Autumn Sypus
Marketing and Outreach Coordinator
autumn@greenhealthcare.ca

Project Sponsors

A big thank you to Ontario's Save on Energy intiative for their continued financial support of the Green Hospital Scorecard.