Winner announced: You and the Environment survey

The Energy & Environmental Sustainability (EES) group continues to develop and expand “GreenCare” efforts across VCH, PHSA, FHA, and PHC. GreenCare’s goal is to promote an environmentally conscious culture in health care that is actively aware and engaged in creating sustainable solutions for healthy lives and healthy community.

Left to right: Lianne Kinnaird (Administrative Coordinator, Department of Medicine, PHC) receiving her iPad from Mauricio Acosta (Director, Energy & Environmental Sustainability) and Sarah Smith (Prism Engineering, WCA Consultant). Survey and prize funded in part by BC Hydro.

The recent “You & the Environment” survey is an essential way for the EES group to gather feedback from health care staff and collect information and data on our current sustainability projects and initiatives.

We are still in the process of analyzing the data for the 2012 survey. We look forward to sharing our findings with you in the coming months! We had 3,443 survey respondents (VCH had the highest response rate) and there are many great suggestions on how we can further GreenCare efforts and develop more programs to support staff in energy saving and environmental conservation behaviours.

Survey Winner
Lianne Kinnaird is our survey winner, picked at random from the 3,443 survey respondents!

Lianne is the Administrative Coordinator in the Department of Medicine at St Paul’s Hospital. She has been in this role with PHC for 27 years and this is her first time winning a prize. She chose the iPad and commented: “I like to fill out surveys and contribute my voice to important issues. Personally, the area that interests me most in this survey was the section on sustainable transportation as I commute into Vancouver from Maple Ridge each day. As well, I am interested in how we can change to a paperless system, meaning more electronic medical records and less paper records. It is great that we have a recycling program but I would like to see less paper in general.”

Thanks to everyone that took the time to complete the survey and share your thoughts with us.

Survey Results
A comprehensive analysis of the survey results will soon be posted on the “Cut the Carbon Community” web site for health care professionals.

Sign-up & add your voice to the conversation: C3community.ca/greencare

To learn more about GreenCare and the environmental programs that are taking place through the Health Authorities, please sign-up to the Cut the Carbon (C3) site and help to make our organization a leader in conservation and sustainability: C3community.ca/greencare