The first week of February (February 1-7) has been named National Health Care Energy Efficiency Awareness Week by CCHSE. 

NEW:  National Health Care Energy Efficiency Awareness Week "Resource Guide for Energy Efficiency Awareness Champions"

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Download Awareness Week Logo

This is a focussed opportunity to help identify further energy savings opportunities in health care facilities and to foster greater awareness of the economic, environmental and health care benefits of energy efficiency to the Canadian health care service industry. It also provides the sector with the opportunity to celebrate energy efficiency achievements and illustrate the importance individuals and health care organizations have in making Canada more energy efficient, safer and healthier.
 
There is clear evidence that energy use behaviour is changing for the better. Hundreds of health care facilities across Canada have been active in helping to turn their Energy Dollars into Health Care Dollars ... for a Healthier Planet. National Health Care Energy Efficiency Awareness Week is about applauding these successes, and sharing them with your clients, patients, colleagues, vendors, suppliers and the greater communities you serve. 
 
Through signage, posters, newsletters, in-house displays, special events and contests we encourage you to engage all those who come through your facility.  Share with them your enthusiasm.  Provide boiler room tours, offer prizes for the most ingenious energy saving tip of the week, or have a guest speaker make a lunch-time presentation.  A 'Resource Guide' should be available soon to assist you with further celebration ideas.

Illustrate just how much of an impact Canadian health care workers can have in cleaning up and preserving our fragile environment. We also encourage you to share and acknowledge their successes. It will be a time to celebrate energy efficiency achievements and acknowledge the successes of health care workers in reducing their facility’s operating costs and preserving the environment.

Through the power of your office, please lend support to our initiative and send a message to all health care workers that hospital executives, managers and in fact all Canadians appreciate and acknowledge the importance of their participation in providing a healthier environment for all. 

For more details contact the Energy Efficiency coordinator at kwaddington@cchse.org

Celebration Images

Click HERE to view images of Awareness Week celebrations.

Further Reading

Click HERE to download full colour .PDF of Awareness Week Poster
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National Health Care Energy Efficiency Awareness Week is about letting the world know how dedicated you are to a healthier environment. But it is also a time to acknowledge the many women and men who have helped you achieve such a high degree of energy efficiency success. Praise them in a public forum.  Put their photos up in the lobby.  Profile their contributions to a healthier and more energy efficient workplace at staff meetings, etc.

Download sample Certificate of Participation.