Sustainability Strategy & Performance

Sustainability Balanced Scorecard

Over the past two years, the TAHSN Sustainable Health System Community of Practice has been developing a scorecard to promote and monitor sustainability performance across TAHSN organizations by:  

  • Establishing a streamlined set of sustainability objectives and indicators agreed upon by all TAHSN organizations as top priorities to track progress on collectively 
  • Enabling TAHSN organizations to assess and celebrate their annual improvements 
  • Complementing and supporting existing TAHSN performance monitoring 
  • Sharing progress and good practices among the network to encourage ambition 

Organizations use the scorecard to conduct a self-assessment, based on indicators developed in consultation with the Leadership Table, Working Group, and experts on each item from across TAHSN.

For organizations beyond TAHSN, if you are interested in learning more or potentially piloting the scorecard at your organization, please reach out to Brittany Maguire. 

2024 TAHSN Climate & Sustainability Report

We are excited to launch TAHSN’s first report on this work, the 2024 TAHSN Climate & Sustainability Report.

This report summarizes scorecard results, celebrates progress, and shares innovative and leading practices across the network to facilitate learning and continue to drive ambition for sustainability and climate action. 

TAHSN Highlights Report 

A Highlights Report was developed and shared internally among TAHSN to showcase the wide range of sustainability initiatives underway, clearly showed that member hospitals are highly engaged. 

Previous Work

Prior to focusing on the development of the Sustainability Balanced Scorecard, the Community of Practice, in collaboration with CASCADES, developed the Organizational Readiness for Sustainability Playbook. Informed by discussions with leaders from across the Toronto Academic Health Science Network, the Playbook reviews the “Why,” “What” and “How” for organizations to mobilize and guide action on sustainability. To explain “What” organizations can do, the Playbook further identifies four Domains of Concern and four Areas of Activity, producing an “Activity Matrix” that can be used to identify and prioritize opportunities for action. 

The Organizational Readiness Playbook can be accessed on the CASCADES website here. 

Working Groups

  • Stewart Wong, VP, Communications, Strategy & Sustainability, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital 
  • Jhanvi Solanki, VP, Clinical Programs Humber River Health 
  • Genny Ng, Co-Chair of President’s Environmental Sustainability and Greening Task Force; Manager, Quality & Patient Safety, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre 
  • Chad Gyorfi, VP, Finance, Partnerships & CFO, Women’s College Hospital 
  • Katelyn Poyntz, Director, Project Engineering & Energy, Unity Health 
  • Lucas Chartier, VP. Quality & Safety, University Health Network 
  • Geoff Anderson, Professor, IHPME, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto 

Secretariat 

  • Fiona Miller, Professor, IHPME, Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Director, Collaborative Centre for Climate Health & Sustainable Care, University of Toronto 
  • Brittany Maguire, Managing Director, Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health & Sustainable Care, University of Toronto

  • Dean Sabean, Senior Project Director, Redevelopment Team, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health  
  • Ian Rogers, Senior Director Facility Management, Building and Transportation Services, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital 
  • Nina Malek, Project Manager, North York General Hospital 
  • Kyle Robinson, Director, Facilities Operations, Sustainability and Support Services, SickKids 
  • Christine Soong, Division Head, Hospital Medicine, Sinai Health 
  • Genny Ng, Co-Chair of President’s Environmental Sustainability and Greening Task Force; Manager, Quality & Patient Safety, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre 
  • Geoff Anderson, Professor, IHPME, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto 
  • Alexandru Titeu, Research Administration Officer, IHPME, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto 

Secretariat 

  • Fiona Miller, Professor, IHPME, Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Director, Centre for Sustainable Health Systems, University of Toronto 
  • Brittany Maguire, Managing Director, Centre for Sustainable Health Systems, University of Toronto

  • Peter Goldthorpe, Vice-President, Transformation, The Hospital for Sick Children  
  • Penny Karafile, Director, Support Service and Business Development, Scarborough Health Network  
  • Katelyn Poyntz, Director, Project Engineering & Energy, Unity Health Toronto, Unity Health  
  • Kimberly Wintemute, Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of Toronto  

Secretariat  

  • Fiona A. Miller, Director, Centre for Sustainable Health Systems, University of Toronto & CASCADES  
  • Katy Devitt, Project Manager, CASCADES