In this webinar, How Sustainability Enhances Community Benefit and Resilience, Todd Suntrapak (President and Chief Executive Officer, Valley Children’s Healthcare), Eftitan Akam (Attending Physician, Boston Medical Center), and Ben Money (Senior Vice President, Population Health, National Association of Community Health Centers), joined by Jerry P. Abraham (Director of Public Health, Integration & Street Medicine at Kedren Community Health Center), discussed how aligning environmental sustainability priorities with hospital charters, stewardship, and mission fosters employee engagement, retention and community trust, and highlights why hospitals need to have climate resiliency plans for their own operations and the communities they serve, among other related topics.
Resources to Share:
- Valley Children’s Environmental Sustainability
- Charge Partnership
- Community Health Center Resilience
- Resilient Power | Power for Health
- Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
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This webinar is part of the NAM Climate Collaborative‘s Building Momentum to Act on Health Care Decarbonization webinar series. Join our climate and health listserv to stay tuned on the rest of the series.
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