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Climate change and its associated environmental and human health problems are our current global reality — a reality that we must all take action to address.
Health care is responsible for 4.6% of Canada’s total greenhouse gas emissions and as such, contributes to and is impacted by our climate reality. By understanding and finding solutions to challenges that include energy and carbon emissions, material waste, water management, chemical use and transportation, there is much that we can all do to achieve better health and well-being for our environment, patients, staff and communities.
A network founded by the Energy and Environmental Sustainability team, GreenCare unites efforts across the B.C. health-care community to transform our health-care system toward environmentally sustainable and resilient care for healthy people, place and planet.
Efforts include work undertaken by the Energy and Environmental Sustainability team, by health-care and medical staff, and all together, in collaboration and partnership. Connecting and supporting diverse individuals and groups within Fraser Health, Providence Health Care, Provincial Health Services Authority and Vancouver Coastal Health, GreenCare amplifies and celebrates projects, programs and staff that advance environmental sustainability solutions in health-care delivery and population health.
The GreenCare website is a resource for the network and a home to communicate and celebrate all efforts.
A collaboration team created in 2010 to ensure a regional approach to climate resilient and environmentally sustainable care is taken across these four health organizations:
To inspire and empower everyone we work with
To collaboratively enable systemic transformation
In order to restore and regenerate the interdependent health of people and planet — now and for future generations.
Mauricio Acosta
Executive Director,
Facilities Management
and Business
Performance
Originally from Colombia, Mauricio holds a bachelor of business administration and a master of finance from University de Los Andes in Bogota. He immigrated to Canada in 2001, completed a master of business administration from UBC and joined Vancouver Coastal Health in 2004. His previous experience includes financial management in development, construction, real estate and facilities management.
As executive director, Mauricio is responsible for providing direction and leadership to the Energy and Environmental Sustainability, Facilities Systems Support, and Facilities Management Procurement teams for all four Lower Mainland health organizations, and to the Facilities Maintenance and Operations, and Assets, Risk, Quality & Technical Services teams for Vancouver Coastal Health.
The most rewarding part of my job is having the ability to work across multiple teams and multiple organizations in areas that do impact people’s lives. In particular, being able to influence how our organizations approach environmental sustainability, one of the most fundamental challenges of our time, is extremely motivating.
Robert Bradley
Director, Energy and
Environmental
Sustainability
Robert is a professionally qualified engineer, with 13 years of dedicated energy and environmental sustainability experience, in addition to over 30 years of experience in facilities management, including technical knowledge within the health-care sector in both the UK and Canada.
As the director of the Energy and Environmental Sustainability team, which provides a nationally recognized shared service to four Lower Mainland health organizations, Robert oversees a team of passionate subject matter experts with a collective goal to reduce the environmental impacts on our health-care system.
I am very passionate about our environment and the need to reduce our emissions and adapt to climate change. Leading and being part of a collaborative dynamic team that wants to inspire change is the most rewarding aspect of my work.
Mauricio Acosta
Executive Director,
Robert Bradley
Director, Energy andCLEAR ALL
