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Webinar - Impact Investing in Health: From Mission to Capital Allocation
Date: April 13, 2026
Time: 9:00 AM PT/12:00 PM ET
How are leading organisations approaching impact investing in health, and what can hospital foundations learn from them?
In this 60-minute session speakers will demystify impact investing, explore how investing for positive outcomes fits into portfolio construction, and share real-world health-focused investment examples.
This webinar will feature leaders from the Terry Fox Foundation, Amplify Capital and Cross-Border Impact Ventures, hosted by the Healthy Capital Project.
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Webinar - Circular Clinical Care's Lightning Webinar: How can your hospital reduce single-use plastic waste?
Date: March 30, 2026
Time: 9:00 AM PT/12:00 PM ET
How can your hospital reduce single-use plastic waste?
Over the past 16 months, the Circular Clinical Care: Single-Use Plastics Reduction team spent 2,000+ hours researching and meeting with health care sustainability champions across the country to find the answer to that question.
During this webinar they are going to discuss the high-impact initiatives that we have written a business case or case study for and highlight their effect - in just 30 minutes.
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Call for Hospital Partners: Transitioning to Sustainable Food Choices in Health Care
For its 2026 project, the Sustainable Food Systems Committee is launching a quality improvement initiative supporting hospitals across Ontario in piloting plant-forward menu transitions. Participating hospitals will be invited to replace their five most frequently ordered meat-based entrée items with operationally simple, plant-based alternatives for four weeks.
Through this pilot, sites will contribute data to assess impacts across key domains, including operational feasibility, cost implications, environmental outcomes, and staff experience and perceptions. We are currently seeking hospital partners interested in participating and collaborating in this initiative.
To express interest or learn more about participation requirements, please contact Fiona Parascandalo (parascf@mcmaster.ca).
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Guidebook - Intersection of Sustainability & Global Health
This resource is designed to inspire and support the integration of sustainable practices across global health contexts. As the health impacts surrounding climate change intensify and environmental degradation continues to threaten communities around the world, the global health sector has a critical opportunity and responsibility to lead by example.
Content included outlines a range of recommendations that span from immediate, low-barrier actions to more complex strategies that require intentional planning, system-level thinking, and cross-sector collaboration.
These suggestions are meant to be adaptable to different settings; from hospitals and clinics, to public health programs and academic institutions.
| | Networking Hub - Examining the Landscape of Green Teams and Sustainability Offices Across Canada | |
Date: March 31, 2026
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM ET
Join our next Green Team Networking Hub session to hear from co-chair Maya Kalogirou as she shares high-level findings from a recent study examining the current landscape of Canadian green teams.
Maya will share key insights into team demographics, common areas of focus, approaches to measuring impact, and how these teams function within hospital settings. The presentation also highlights the supports that enable success, as well as the barriers teams encounter in advancing their work.
Anyone is welcome to join this webinar-style session, contact Autumn Sypus (autumn@greenhealthcare.ca) to receive the meeting link.
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Call for submissions - 2026 Climate and Health Conference
The 2026 Climate and Health Conference provides a forum for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to share evidence and innovations that advance understanding and action to strengthen health in a changing climate.
The October 23rd event is now accepting submissions for papers, panels, workshops, and posters that examine climate change alongside related ecological challenges, including biodiversity loss, pollution, land and water degradation, and their implications for planetary health.
Submissions are due by May 29.
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21st Annual Nursing Hero Awards
Celebrating Canada’s Nurses and their contributions to health care!
Hospital News will once again salute nursing heroes through their annual National Nursing Week (May 11 to 17) contest.
Winners will have their story published, receive a Hospital News Nursing Hero Award, and take home CASH PRIZES!
Nominations can be submitted by patients' or patients family members, colleagues or managers.
Please submit nominations by April 6.
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Explore Climate Impacts on Health and Health Equity: Join the weekly ECHO Sessions
Date: Starting April 7, every Tuesday Time: 12:00–13:00 ET
CASCADES, in partnership with the Collaborative Center for Climate, Health and Sustainable Care, is hosting a new ECHO cycle on Climate Impacts on Health & Health Equity.
This cycle will examine how climate-driven environmental changes, including rising temperatures, declining air quality, shifting patterns of vector-borne diseases, and more frequent extreme weather events, create and intensify risks for health and social services.
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Showing Up to the Crisis: A Workshop for Health Care Providers on Climate Distress, Healing, and Action
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Time: 9:30 AM – 1:00 PM ET
Location: Perkins Centre (Indwell), Hamilton
This 3.5 hour workshop was developed to help participants identify common patterns and pathways of climate‑related distress, strengthen their capacity to respond, and apply approaches—such as trauma‑informed, strength‑based, land‑based, arts‑based, and Active Hope‑aligned practices—within their clinical, educational, leadership, and community roles.
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From Research to Readiness
Green Care
Extreme heat is emerging as one of the most immediate climate risks facing health care, particularly in long-term care where residents are often unable to independently regulate their environments.
At Youville Residence, Providence Health Care (Providence) is advancing a comprehensive response that connects research, infrastructure planning and lived experience of seniors in long term care as well as in the geriatric-psychiatric acute care.
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Building a Greener, Safer Hospital
Hospital News
When Hamilton Health Sciences opens the new West Lincoln Memorial Hospital in Grimsby on November 24, it will be one of the most sustainably designed health-care facilities in the region, and one of the safest too, thanks to special features for managing widespread disease outbreaks. The new hospital is targeting LEED Silver certification, featuring energy-efficient systems, low-VOC materials, solar panels, water-saving fixtures, and recycling 75% of construction waste to reduce environmental impact.
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Toronto academic hospitals release new sustainability report
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
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The Toronto Academic Health Science Network has published its second-annual Climate & Sustainability Report, which highlights the efforts of 14 academic hospitals affiliated with the University of Toronto to prioritize and mobilize sustainability and climate action, as assessed by a collaborative sustainability balanced scorecard.
The report demonstrates measurable system-wide progress across TAHSN to advance sustainability and climate action, with organisations increasingly embedding sustainability as a core value and priority and into governance.
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Interconnected Futures: Pathways to Justice in Global Health, Peace, and Environmental Sustainability
Date: May 1-3, 2026
Location: University of Waterloo, Faculty of Health
This three-day conference hosted by the PEGASUS Institute will bring together scholars, practitioners, students, and community leaders to exchange innovative strategies, research, and ideas for addressing the urgent and interconnected challenges of our time, from the climate crisis and structural inequality to political violence and global health inequities.
The conference will also feature a plenary session focused on advocacy for planetary health, the health impacts of climate change, and nature-based approaches to well-being, with contributions from
Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, Dr. Melissa Lem, and
Dr. Courtney Howard.
Register here.
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Canadian Institute: 9th Annual Forum on Healthcare Infrastructure, Western Canada
Date: June 9-10, 2026
Location: Hilton Vancouver Metrotown, Burnaby, BC
This highly anticipated forum convenes capital planners, clinical leads, architects, engineers, and contractors to share actionable strategies that address the most pressing issues impacting the design and delivery of health care facilities. Through insightful case studies, panel discussions, and solution-driven conversations, attendees gain fresh perspectives on optimizing space, integrating technology, and delivering high-performing, patient-centered environments.
Whether you’re overseeing a major redevelopment, navigating funding challenges, or advancing climate-resilient infrastructure, this event is your platform to connect with peers, benchmark against major projects, and accelerate innovation in health care infrastructure across Western Canada.
Register here.
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Canadian Institute: 9th Annual Forum on Healthcare Infrastructure, Atlantic Canada
Date: July 15-16, 2026
Location: Atlantica Hotel Halifax, Halifax, NS
It’s an important time to anticipate future health care infrastructure needs, challenges, and opportunities. Demographic shifts are likely to exacerbate resourcing challenges, health care technology is evolving at a rapid pace making current systems obsolete, and climate related events are putting current infrastructure to the test.
Attend CI’s Forum in Halifax for timely insights on how global trade, local conditions and cutting-edge technology are influencing project delivery. Confer with health care infrastructure leaders about what needs to change to smooth out the capital project planning process, improve health care infrastructure design and delivery.
Register here.
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Have you registered as an organ donor?
Contact your local organ donation agency and speak to your family about your wishes. You have the power to save and transform lives. Learn more and register to donate HERE.
| | The Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care is Canada’s premier green health care resource network, leading the evolution of green in Canada’s health sector as a national voice and catalyst for environmental change. www.greenhealthcare.ca | |
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