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For further information on this program, contact the FHA Education Department at education@fha.org or (407) 841-6230.
Hospital Sustainability Collaborative Webinar Series | Webinar 2: Engage and Retain Employees
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
1 p.m. - 2 p.m. ET | Webinar
Overview
Every Floridian's health is at risk from climate change. An article in the Miami Herald from 2018 said: "If you live in Florida, doctors say climate change is already affecting your health." From heat-related illness and death, asthma and allergies, to more extreme hurricanes and flooding, the health impacts from climate change are not a distant threat - they have arrived. The Florida Hospital Association and Practice Greenhealth know that climate is a pressing issue for you as leaders in health care sustainability and have teamed up to offer a three-part webinar series on solutions to reduce your footprint, engage employees, and increase resilience to the threats posed by climate change.
Health care systems and hospitals can advance their mission of protecting human health by engaging employees and involving them in solutions to address climate change. During this session, we will review many different ways to engage employees around climate and health: the Florida Clinicians for Climate Action, Health Care Without Harm's Physician Network, the Nurses Climate Challenge, and Practice Greenhealth's "Green Employee Benefit" program, which provides health systems with meaningful opportunities to engage employees on low cost or no cost strategies to promote climate change solutions. Providing incentives and programming to employees to improve the health of their homes, families and friends is a way to extend the "culture of caring" beyond the walls of the organization.
Speakers
Ankush Bansal, MD, FACP
Co-Chair
Florida Clinicians for Climate Action
Jason Bell
Assistant Vice President of Operations
Baptist Health South Florida
Shanda Demorest, DNP, RN-BC, PHN
Member Engagement Manager
Practice Greenhealth
Questions
For more information on this series, contact John Wilgis, vice president, member and corporate services. For assistance with registration, contact the FHA Education Department at (407) 841-6230.
Learning Objectives
- Understand opportunities for partnering with statewide clinician climate action group to engage employees in state and local climate solutions to protect health.
- Learn how to develop new sustainability clinician champions by growing staff knowledge of the health impacts of climate change and providing opportunities for engagement.
- Understand how engaging employees around sustainability leads to improved recruitment, retention, satisfaction, productivity and patient experience.
- Review HR benefit strategies and opportunities to strengthen community benefit (volunteer, CSAs, alt. energy/vehicle discounts, divestment, etc.)