To help organizations measure and maximize these benefits, the CASCADES Virtual Care Carbon Accounting Tool (VCCAT) supports the estimation of travel-related carbon and financial impacts associated with virtual and in-person care. Combined with thoughtful implementation strategies, equitable access planning, and sustainable technology practices, virtual care can play a meaningful role in building a lower-carbon healthcare system
The following table provides a general list of groups that need to be involved for the successful planning, design or delivery of food infrastructure for planetary health projects; it is offered as a working draft or a guide for you and your teams to upgrade together.
This playbook provides background information, an overview of reusable opportunities in healthcare, as well as implementation resources and suggested strategies to adopt reusables at care sites.
Sustainability resources created by Green Care in British Columbia to mitigate infrastructure waste.
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Healthcare Waste Management Community of Practice
In partnership with the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care, we are assembling a Healthcare Waste Management Community of Practice. This network will enhance sustainability within healthcare waste management processes in Canada by exploring the links between waste, clinical delivery of care and environment sustainability Chair: Allen Bridge, Provincial Lead in Environmental Sustainability and Waste Management at Alberta Health Services
This worksheet is part of the Food Infrastructures for Planetary Health Playbook, which aims tosupport informed decision-making related to food infrastructures for planetary health throughout the planning, design, construction, ongoing operation retrofitting (and even decommissioning) of Canadian healthcare facilities. These sequential stages are known as the Facilities Delivery Lifecycle
This playbook aims to support informed decision-making related to foodinfrastructures for planetary health throughout the planning, design, construction and ongoing operation of Canadian healthcare facilities.
