In this edition: Celebrating Earth Day and the Green Office Challenge!

The Green Office Challenge is the key theme for this month's Green Corner!

GREEN CORNER NEWS

WE HEARD YOU

On April 10th, Myles, Liza and Dr. Rebecca Douglass presented at the HFAM Primary Care Rounds with the goal of sharing latest findings on Sustainability in Primary Care. Through this we also asked you about your practice and here is what we found:

10 of you felt that you can reduce your testing by 10%

  • 7/10 can reduce DXA scans
  • 5/10 can TSH tests
  • 4/10 can reduce CBCs and ECGs

7 of you felt that you can feasibly make your office more sustainable

  • 6/7 would implement LED or automated shut off systems into their office

6/6 felt that they can help their patients switch their diet to plant-rich if they have a change in diagnosis.


We thank everyone for their participation and invite those who could not attended to reach out to us at green.team@hamiltonfht.ca and we will share the recording.

A building with embedded plants to represent the Green Office Challenge.

THE GREEN OFFICE CHALLENGE 

The HFHT Green Team along with PEACH and the Canadian Coalition for Green Healthcare are hosting a NATIONAL COMPETITION to determine the Greenest Primary Care Office in the Country!


Did you set up LED lights in your office? Did you rid your office of examination table paper? Do you have deprescribing strategies in your practice? Hamilton Primary Care Practices and beyond, let's take this challenge and celebrate the amazing progress that all of you have been making in going green in your office!


The Ask: Score your practice in the different areas of sustainability

HINT: The scorecard is heavily guided by the Green Office Toolkit


Timeline: The Scorecard will be shared with you in the next edition of the Green Corner, so stay tuned!


Prize: Being awarded the title of having the Greenest Office in Canada & a complementary prize :)

YOU ARE INVITED - Climate Change and Pharmacy: A Place for Everyone


Date: April 23rd, 2024

Time: 9:00am PT/ 12:00pm ET/ 1:00pm AT


Join the Canadian Coalition for Green Health CarePEACH Health Ontario, and the Canadian Association of Pharmacists for the Environment as we welcome pharmacy professionals and students from across Canada to discuss their experience tackling climate change and environmental sustainability in the sector.



To register, please click HERE.

The logo for the Canadian Coalition for Green Healthcare

NEW RESOURCE: GREEN PAGES

The Canadian Coalition for Green Healthcare has created The Green Pages guide, which lists many Canadian resources focused on climate change and sustainable practices within healthcare. We hope you can find the information necessary to enact change in your health facility. If it is a PEACH or CCGHC guidebook, you are welcome to adapt it to your own province/city/facility. As an example, we at the Hamilton Family Health Team Green Initiative adapted our Green Office Toolkit to a Hamilton context.

"If everyday were Earth day then we wouldn't be in the mess we're in"

- Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Edition 31 | April 22, 2024

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