The 2021 Green Health Care Awards were announced Wednesday September 21^st and Thursday September 22^nd respectively, at virtual award presentations held by the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care. The awards, made possible with support from Ontario’s Save on Energy initiative, honour Canada’s most sustainable health care organisations.

Recognition through the Green Health Care Awards is predicated upon the results of a completed Green Hospital Scorecard (GHS) survey, a comprehensive ‘Made in Canada’ health care benchmarking tool that measures hospitals’ performance in a number of crucial categories.

This year’s awards honoured the top performing Canadian hospitals in Energy and Energy Behaviour as well as Water, Waste, Leadership and Pollution Prevention categories. The hospitals with the best overall scores in their respective peer groups receive the Green Hospital of the Year Award. This year’s winners:

Green Hospital of the Year

• Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (Winnipeg MB) – Community
• Hamilton Health Sciences – Ron Joyce Children’s Health Centre (Hamilton ON) – Academic
• Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital (Toronto ON)– Non-Acute
• Four Counties Health Services (Newbury ON) – Small
• Markham Stouffville Hospital (Markham ON) – Community
• The Ottawa Hospital – General Hospital (Ottawa ON) – Academic
• Provincial Health Services Authority – Sunny Hill Health Centre (Vancouver BC) – Non-Acute
• Four Counties Health Services (Newbury ON) – Small

Waste

• Ross Memorial Hospital (Lindsay ON) – Community
• Trillium Health Partners – Queensway Health Centre (Toronto ON) – Academic
• Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital (Toronto ON) – Non-Acute
• Kemptville District Hospital (Kemptville ON) - Small

Leadership

• Peterborough Regional Health Centre (Peterborough ON) - Community
• University Health Network (Toronto ON) – Academic
• Sinai Health – Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto ON) – Academic
• Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg (Winnipeg MB)– Academic
• Unity Health Toronto (Toronto ON) – Academic
• Trillium Health Partners (Toronto ON) – Academic
• Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto ON) – Academic
• Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Toronto ON) – Academic
• London Health Sciences Centre – University Hospital (London ON) – Academic
• Rockyview General Hospital (Calgary AB) – Academic
• Sinai Health – Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital (Toronto ON) – Non-Acute
• West Park Healthcare Centre (Toronto ON) – Non-Acute
• Kemptville District Hospital (Kemptville ON) - Small

Pollution Prevention

• Northumberland Hills Hospital (Cobourg ON) – Community
• Markham Stouffville Hospital (Markham ON) – Community
• Unity Health Toronto - St. Michael’s Hospital (Toronto ON) – Academic
• Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto ON) – Academic
• Unity Health Toronto - St. Joseph’s Health Centre (Toronto ON) – Academic
• Unity Health Toronto - Providence Healthcare (Toronto ON) – Academic
• West Park Healthcare Centre (Toronto ON) – Non-Acute
• Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital (Toronto ON) – Non-Acute
• Kemptville District Hospital (Kemptville ON) - Small

Energy - Ontario

• Northumberland Hills Hospital (Cobourg ON) – Community
• Unity Health Toronto – Providence Healthcare (Toronto ON) – Academic
• St. Joseph’s Health Care – Parkwood Institute Mental Health Care Building (London ON) – Non-Acute
• Four Counties Health Services (Newbury ON) – Small

Energy Canada-Wide

• Fraser Health Authority – Langley Memorial Hospital (Langley BC)– Community
• Providence Health Care – St. Paul’s Hospital (Vancouver BC) – Academic

Energy Behaviour

• St. Joseph’s Health Care London (London ON)

Originally developed by the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) nine years ago in conjunction with an advisory committee of hospital staff and staff from the Coalition, the GHS is the only comprehensive environmental benchmarking tool in Canada specific to health care. In 2016, the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care became custodian of the Green Hospital Scorecard Awards program, continuing to make the program available to Ontario hospitals, and subsequently expanding the program to hospitals across Canada. In the near future, the Coalition will introduce a new scorecard dedicated to Canada’s long-term care and retirement homes.

The GHS provides a vehicle for standardized, sector-specific environmental benchmarking and to connect hospitals with environmental information that will assist them in making decisions to achieve environmental and economic benefits such as reduced greenhouse gas emissions, improved energy and water efficiency and increased climate change resiliency.

Visit https://greenhealthcare.ca/ghs/ to learn more about the GHS.

Contact autumn@greenhealthcare.ca for any questions regarding the Green Hospital Scorecard and the Green Health Care Awards.