January 18, 2026
The DiVE initiative is exploring how displacement ventilation can improve air quality, infection control, and energy efficiency in Canadian healthcare facilities. Its goal is to create healthier, lower-carbon, and more cost-effective healthcare environments.
July 28, 2025
The Decarbonization in Action project helps hospitals reduce greenhouse gas emissions across operations while maintaining quality care. A 2025 test program with 13 hospital sites supported 26 initiatives and cut over 1,550 tonnes of emissions. The program is expanding across Ontario in 2026.
March 28, 2025
This project helps healthcare facilities respond to extreme indoor heat and protect vulnerable people. It studies how heat affects patients, residents, and staff in hospitals, long-term care homes, and clinics across Canada. The findings will help improve how healthcare settings adapt to rising heat risks.
March 28, 2025
Aperçu du projet Ce projet, mené par la Coalition canadienne pour un système de santé écologique, est une initiative nationale … Read more
December 12, 2024
The Single-Use Plastics Reduction Project, supported by Environment and Climate Change Canada, is working to cut plastic use in Canadian healthcare by promoting reuse, recycling, and better procurement practices. It started with a pilot at Hamilton Health Sciences and will expand into a national effort to reduce single-use plastics across hospitals.
December 11, 2024
Objectif et champ d’application L’impact des soins de santé s’étend au-delà de la clinique. Des études suggèrent que 30 % … Read more
December 3, 2024
A project to empower hospital foundation boards across Canada to learn and build capacity to integrate sustainable investment practices and align the capital they manage with their foundation’s health-focused missions.
December 3, 2024
Un projet visant à habiliter les conseils d’administration des fondations hospitalières à travers le Canada à apprendre et à renforcer leurs capacités afin d’intégrer des pratiques d’investissement durable et d’aligner les capitaux qu’ils gèrent avec les missions de santé de leur fondation.
October 24, 2024
This project supports Canada’s health care buildings in moving toward net-zero by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It provides training, resources, and networking to help health care staff and leaders take climate action.
June 12, 2024
This project is a national Green Office Challenge led by the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care, PEACH Health Ontario, and the HFHT Green Team, with sponsorship from HP. It helps organizations assess and improve their sustainability practices, and the 2025/26 questionnaire is open until August 31, 2026.
March 18, 2024
This initiative helps health care facilities bring nature into care spaces by creating green areas like gardens, green roofs, and indoor natural elements. It supports hospitals and long-term care homes in improving health, well-being, and the environment through nature-based projects across Canada.
March 8, 2024
The Nix the Nitrous / Pas de Protoxyde campaign provides tools and resources to help Canadian health care facilities phase out centralized nitrous oxide systems. It promotes switching to portable cylinders to reduce environmental, financial, and health impacts as part of the broader net-zero health care effort.
April 25, 2023
This project supports awareness and adoption of zero-emission and battery-powered micro-mobility solutions in Canada’s health and social services sector. It works with health care leaders and stakeholders to promote education, research, and the use of these sustainable transportation options.
February 13, 2023
The Green Hospital Scorecard is a tool used in Canada to measure how hospitals perform on environmental sustainability. It tracks areas like energy, water, waste, and pollution and compares hospitals’ progress over time.
April 7, 2021
Hospital PPE and single-use plastic waste is being reduced through a circular economy approach focused on reuse, reduction, and recycling. The initiative explores ways to make health care waste management more sustainable and lower environmental impact.
April 6, 2021
Un modèle d’économie circulaire pour les matières résiduelles liées aux EPI et aux plastiques médicaux à usage unique générés par … Read more
March 5, 2021
A completed Canadian project developed a benchmarking tool to help long-term care and retirement homes measure their environmental performance. It tracks areas like energy, water, waste, and emissions to support more sustainable decision-making.
January 7, 2020
A completed project supported awareness and adoption of zero-emission vehicles and low-carbon transportation in Canada’s health services sector. It engaged health care stakeholders to build knowledge, infrastructure understanding, and capacity for using cleaner vehicle technologies.