Green Hospital Scorecard

Participation

On Earth Day 2025, Health Standards Organization (HSO) and the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care (CCGHC) proudly announced their partnership in the development of an updated environmental benchmarking tool for hospitals across Canada.

This new environmental benchmarking tool is based on the CCGHC’s Green Hospital Scorecard, which has been Canada’s premiere environmental benchmarking tool since 2013. Currently in our user testing phase, HSO and CCGHC call upon hospitals across Canada to apply to test the tool, examine their own climate practices, and provide feedback that will shape this product to be most impactful across the country.

Interested hospitals can apply to participate in the user testing by May 22, 2025. SIGN UP HERE.

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If you have additional questions, or would like to be added to our GHS email list, email coalition@greenhealthcare.ca.

Project History

In 2013, the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) developed and administered the Green Hospital Scorecard through the Green Hospital Champion Fund and supportive funding from the Ministry of Consumer and Government Services. That program ended in early 2016, and after an internal review the OHA decided to seek an appropriate organization to assume ongoing operation of the GHS. As a historic collaborator on the development of the GHS and on the OHA’s Green Health Care Awards since 2001, the Coalition was a logical choice to carry forward the delivery of the GHS.

Goals, objectives, and performance results

The main purpose of the GHS is to provide a vehicle for standardized, sector-specific environmental benchmarking and to connect hospitals with environmental information that will assist them in achieving environmental and economic benefits such as reduced greenhouse gas emissions and improved energy and water efficiency. The GHS allows for enhancement of existing benchmark data, refinement of collection methodologies, and the creation of meaningful reporting data to inform the sector, hospitals’ executives and future conservation programming. The intent of the program is to raise the hospital organization's awareness, motivate change, and incite improvements in the environmental sphere by recognizing each participating hospital's achievements.

The Scorecard shows a hospital's environmental performance in five areas: Energy, Water, Waste, Pollution Prevention, and Corporate Leadership. The GHS:

• Provides a high-level snapshot of the organization's environmental performance against a backdrop of de-identified peer data.
• Helps identify potential areas for improvements to environmental performance and operational efficiency
• Informs target-setting
• Offers the opportunity to be individually recognized through annual Gold, Silver and Bronze level achievements
• Encourages excellence by honouring select participating organisations with annual Green Health Care Awards.

See a copy of a sample Scorecard here.