Project Planning Support

Clinic Sustainability

Going Green in your Clinic

Clinic Accessibility

Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI)

Clinic Workflow Improvements

“By integrating eco-friendly practices like energy-efficiency or waste reduction programs, a clinic can reduce its carbon footprint, attract environmentally conscious patients, enhance the practice’s reputation, foster patient loyalty, and potentially lower its operational costs.”

Dr. Jay Slater

Option 1: Environmental Sustainability Clinic Assessment Tool (NEW!)

Click here to receive the Assessment Tool.

• The assessment tool will guide your clinic to a reduced environmental impact!
• Based on answers you provide, the tool rates your clinic’s sustainability maturity.
• It then provides recommendations from sustainability experts for projects that will help your clinic become more sustainable.
• You select one of the recommendations as your grant project and submit a grant application!
• This year only – the clinic representative who completes the assessment tool will be paid at the standard sessional rate for their role (eligible roles only).

Option 2: Environmental Sustainability Improvement Projects

Select one of these suggested sustainability related projects:

1. Patient Facing Education – e.g. switching from pMDI’s to DPIs or proper drug disposal, or PaRx Park Prescriptions. Inspired by the opportunity to raise environmental awareness and help your patients reduce their impact on the planet? You could do this by creating informational handouts for your patients on environmental-related health topics (pharmaceutical disposal, chemicals or pesticides, etc.) or community events.
2. Create an internal policy or a planning document around sustainable prescribing practices, sustainable procurement, or a general clinic sustainability plan. This can include creating a manual outlining how to develop more sustainable prescribing practices, writing a policy on how your clinic can reduce its environmental impact by changing its purchasing practices or creating a general sustainability plan that outlines your clinic’s goals for reducing its environmental impacts.
3. Capital improvements – e.g. LED lighting & motion sensitive switches, HVAC, bike racks, low-flow toilets and faucets, window tint, and self-closing doors. Research and implement possible improvement actions such those listed above that reduce your clinic’s environmental impact or makes it more energy efficient.

For more suggestions check out Choosing Wisely Canada or the Green Office Toolkit.

Option 1: Accessible Clinic Assessment Tool (NEW!)

Coming Soon! Click here to receive the Assessment Tool.

• The assessment tool will guide your clinic to becoming more accessible!
• Based on answers you provide, the tool rates your clinic’s accessibility maturity.
• It then provides recommendations from accessibility experts for projects that will help your clinic become more sustainable.
• You select one of the recommendations as your grant project and submit a grant application!
• This year only – the clinic representative who completes the assessment tool will be paid at the standard sessional rate for their role (eligible roles only).

Option 2: Featured JEDI Workshop

Join a featured JEDI workshop to enhance skills for meeting the evolving needs of patients, community, and colleagues through evidence-based engagement and education. These workshops create a safe space for discussions on justice, equity, diversity, and inclusions.

1. Len Pierre Consulting (LPC)

LPC offers meaningful learning experiences to enhance your professional practice by embedding applicable strategies into your work to ultimately move towards systemic transformation where organizations are culturally safer, equitable, and transformative. The speaker, Noelle Saemerow, is a Métis woman living in the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations with expertise in Indigenous Health.

Options for workshops: Introduction to Indigenous Cultural Safety and Humility, Indigenous Trauma and Equity Informed Practice, Allyship & Anti-racism. Click here for workshop descriptions.

2. Canadian Mental Health Association

CMHA, offers a variety of workshops to help develop a Psychologically Healthy and Safe workplace to support the health & wellness of your clinic staff and team.

Options for workshops: Click here for workshop details.

Contact courses.vf@cmhavf.ca for more details or questions

Option 3: Other Suggested JEDI Projects

Clinics can select one of these JEDI related projects:

1. A JEDI related workshop or training session (should be different to those listed in Option 2 above).
2. Translating patient facing material to another language – e.g. PHQ9 questionnaire, management of chronic diseases, instructions for preparing for a colonoscopy etc.
3. Capital improvements – e.g. bariatric chairs, enlarged doorways, bathroom rails, grab bars, etc.

Option 4: Propose Your Own Project

Use your imagination and plan your own great accessibility project.

Make sure your project falls within our funding criteria (see the Sustainability section above for the full criteria list).

“Choosing a clinic workflow-focused grant can transform the daily operations of a medical clinic. By implementing projects focused on streamlining workflows, a practice can reduce administrative bottlenecks, improve patient flow, and enhance overall efficiency.”

Option 1: Digitizing Files

Reclaim office space and centralize all your patient files in one easy to search location. Why not switch from those paper filing cabinets to digital? Digitize your patient files and improve access for your clinic’s team. A dedicated team of file scanners can scan an average size clinic (3 FPs) in less than 2 weeks.

Option 2: Clinic Manual and Policy Development

Updating an existing policy or procedures manual or creating one from scratch are both eligible projects. A well-maintained manual reduces confusion and provides a reference point for staff. It also helps maintain consistency and legal compliance.

Option 3: Patient Facing Materials Development

Each clinic serves a diverse range of patients and sometimes, generic communications aren’t enough. Creating custom patient-facing materials – such as translated health guides, appointment reminders, or educational brochures – can improve patient engagement, understanding, and satisfaction.

Option 4: Propose Your Own Project

Use your imagination and plan your own great clinic workflow project.

Make sure your project falls within our funding criteria (see the Sustainability section above for the full criteria list).