1. Health Care Facility Climate Change Resiliency Mentoring in Canada
Pacific Northwest Resilience Summit
Seattle Washington
December 7, 2016
Good morning.
It is a pleasure to be here today to talk about climate change resilience for health care. In British Columbia health care is working to reduce greenhouse gases and to is carbon neutral through the purchase of offsets. Thanks to the work of Health Canada, the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care and the Nova Scotia Ministry of Health and Emergency we can use the tools they have developed to also ensure the health care system is adapted for resilience in the face of changing climate.
Linda Varangu
Executive Director
Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care

2. The Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care
We envision the health sector as a leader in
integrating environmentally responsible practices
into the delivery of health care.
National not-for-profit
Membership ≈ 40% of Canadian hospital beds
Updated our objectives to specifically include climate change

3. Health Care Facility Resiliency Toolkit:
HC Facility Climate Change Resiliency Toolkit 2
Health Care Facility Resiliency Toolkit:
Facilitator Presentation
The Resiliency Checklist
Resources
The final toolkit consists of three parts…..
During the piloting phase, officials indicated that a facilitators guide would be helpful to guide the assessment process. While a resources guide would help officials know how to increase resiliency once results were obtained.
Facilitator
Power-point presentation for hospital facilitator
How facilitators can use the presentation
Benefits of assessing health care facility resiliency to climate change
Introduction to climate change impacts on health care facilities
Guidance on how to complete the health care facility resiliency assessment checklist and use of results
Toolkit
General (4 questions)
Assessing Climate Related Risks (19 questions)
Risk Management to Reduce Climate Related Risks (45 questions)
Procurement of health care resources and supplies
Notifications, monitoring, and surveillance
Clinical risk management
Infrastructure and systems risk management
Energy supply and use
Building Capacity to Adapt to Climate Change (14 questions)
Sustainable health care and climate change mitigation
HC Facility Climate Change Resiliency Toolkit

5. Climate Change Resiliency Mentoring Program
Enhance education/knowledge of climate change impacts on health care facilities and delivery of care
Webinars, resource materials, information sharing
Support for Checklist use
Step-by-step Checklist review to better enable Resiliency Champion to administer at own facility
Conference calls, onsite visits, one-to-one advise
Expert mentoring from hospital (UHN)
Information sharing between participants
Support resiliency/adaptation options development

6. 2 cohorts of participants (2016 – 2018) Online resources and meetings
Climate Change Resiliency Mentoring Program
Program details:
FREE for Ontario hospitals
2 cohorts of participants (2016 – 2018)
Online resources and meetings

7. Participant Commitment
Designation of an in-house Resiliency Champion
to work with the Climate Change Resiliency Mentoring program team.
Participation of relevant departmental staff
Purchasing, Facilities, Nursing, Diagnostic, Redevelopment, Food Service, Housekeeping, Emergency Response to undertake the assessment at facility.
Have access to relevant facility data.
Work with local Public Health Department other community experts
to identify potential geographic and site specific climate change impacts.
Evans, Melanie (October 26, 2013). N.Y. hospitals shift focus to preparing facilities for future super storms. Modern Healthcare.

8. Benefits of Participating
Access to Canada’s Health Care Climate Change Resiliency Toolkit and formal, structured support.
Identification of facility’s current climate change risks using the Resiliency Toolkit.
Provision of a ‘Facilitators slide deck’ that Resiliency Champions can use in their own facility to explain the initiative to their team and bring attention to resiliency as strategic priority within organisation.
Support evaluating relevant facility data.
Peer learning group support that will lead to sharing climate change resiliency preventative actions, initiatives, best practices, and toolkit questions.
Assistance to reduce facility’s ecological footprint while developing in-house sustainability resiliency measures.
Guidance relating the Resiliency Assessment results to Environmental Sustainability.
Tools to benchmark progress against self and others.
Green leadership within your community.
The opportunity to contribute to the national health care climate change resiliency conversation.

9. To enhance development of:
Resiliency Mentoring Program Global Objectives
To enhance development of:
National conversation about the impacts of climate change on HC organisations
Community of practice for HC resiliency/adaptation
Climate change resiliency practitioners/champions
Organisation-specific climate change resiliency & adaptation plans

10. Resiliency Mentoring Program Global Outcomes
Optimize Climate Behaviour throughout HC system & messaging in the community
Energy behaviour
GHG mitigation behaviour
Resiliency behaviour
Adaptation behaviour

11. For more information please contact:
THANK-YOU
For more information please contact:
Linda Varangu - CCGHC