Tools and resources

Customizable RFP for Assessing Climate-Related Infrastructure Risks

• Climate and Health

Preparing for and investing in climate resilience can safeguard lives and an organization's financial viability. This customizable request for proposal (RFP) will help health care systems undertake infrastructure risk assessments and mitigation analyses for facilities facing extreme weather events and other climate risks. This template can help you identify and guide potential partners to explore…

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Environmental Excellence Awards sample news items

• Awards

Here are two sample news stories as well as a brief description for each of Practice Greenhealth’s Environmental Excellence Awards. Feel free to use some or all of this content as you promote your win internally and externally. You can find additional resources, including award logos, on our website. If you have questions, please reach out to [email protected]. Sample news story 1…

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Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital: Climate and health resilience

• Climate and Health
• Case Study
• Resilience

The 132-patient room, 378,000 square foot Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital was built to replace an aging facility originally designed as a nursing home and that could no longer meet the demands of the community in its existing space. Offered as a development site by the City of Boston, the hospital has become an exemplar of resilience strategy and planning. It's design integrates essential…

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World Bank climate-smart health care

• Climate and Health
• Health Care Without Harm
• World Bank
• Report

(World Bank and Health Care Without Harm) In its title, the report coins the term Climate-Smart Health Care, an approach that sets forth both low-carbon and resilience strategies. These strategies are designed for the development community, ministries of health, hospitals and health systems to deploy while addressing the health impacts of climate change. James Close, Director of the World Bank’s…

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Safe haven in the storm: Protecting lives and margins with climate-smart health care

• Climate and Health
• Resilience
• Report

"Safe haven in the storm: Protecting lives and margins with climate-smart health care" analyzes billions of dollars in losses and resilience-related savings to demonstrate how preparing for extreme weather can make or break a health system.  "Safe haven in the storm" examines extreme weather's bottom line damages to hospitals, such as suspension or closure of emergency departments and other…

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Resilience 2.0: Healthcare’s Role in Anchoring Community Health and Resilience

• Climate and Health
• Resilience
• Boston
• Report

Health care institutions and the communities they serve are intimately interconnected, especially during and following extreme weather events and human-made disasters. In January, 2017, Health Care Without Harm convened a Summit "Resilience 2.0: Healthcare’s Role in Anchoring Community Health and Resilience" focused on leveraging community health and climate resilience as a key strategy in the…

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U.S. climate resilience: Building health care sector resilience

• Climate and Health
• Resilience

Health care organizations play a key role in community resilience. Climate change, by increasing the intensity and frequency of some extreme weather events, is creating complex hazards that challenge accepted baseline assumptions for infrastructure capabilities, redundancies, and disaster preparedness and response—and this means a need for new building design thresholds. This government toolkit…

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World Health Organization report: Operational framework for building climate resilient health systems

• Climate and Health
• Resilience

This document presents the World Health Organization (WHO) Operational framework for building climate resilient health systems. The framework responds to the demand from Member States and partners for guidance on how the health sector and its operational basis in health systems can systematically and effectively address the challenges increasingly presented by climate variability and change. This…

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WHO: Operational Framework for building climate resilient health systems

• Climate and Health
• Leadership
• Report

(World Health Organization) This document presents the World Health Organization (WHO) Operational framework for building climate resilient health systems. The framework responds to the demand from Member States and partners for guidance on how the health sector and its operational basis in health systems can systematically and effectively address the challenges increasingly presented by climate…

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Climate and Health PowerPoint Presentation

• Climate and Health
• Presentation
• Education

Practice Greenhealth provides a presentation that can be used as a foundation for a discussion or community education event on climate and health. This slide deck is intended to give you a variety of slides that you can pull from, depending on your need. The slide deck goes through the background first: climate change science, health impacts of climate change, and different energy sources. Then…

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