SE-QI Toolkit and Spotlight National Launch: Making Sustainability Part of Everyday Quality Improvement

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The Sustainability-Embedded Quality Improvement (SE-QI) Toolkit is a practical resource that brings environmental sustainability into the core of quality. Co-developed through a leading collaboration between Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), Interior Health (IH), Health Quality BC (HQBC), and CASCADES, the toolkit reflects shared expertise and real-world innovation across health systems working to deliver high-quality, low-carbon care. It supports teams to identify, measure, and report environmental impacts within new, current, or past projects, making sustainability actionable within existing QI efforts.

Tested and validated through a national pilot involving 14 healthcare organizations across six provinces in Canada, the SE-QI Toolkit has demonstrated strong usability, feasibility, and relevance in practice. The session will also introduce the SE-QI Spotlight, a growing pan-Canadian repository of real-world SE-QI examples designed to support shared learning, reduce duplication, and help teams see how sustainability can be embedded across diverse clinical and organizational contexts.

In this session, participants will be introduced to the updated Toolkit and Spotlight, hear early adoption experiences from across the country, and explore how to embed sustainability into their own improvement initiatives in a practical and meaningful way.