Greener, more energy efficient hospitals are the plan as the province kicks off its Hospital Energy Efficiency Program.
Hospitals like the West Parry Sound Health Centre could benefit from provincial investments through H.E.E.P., targeting greenhouse emissions and wasteful and expensive energy practices.
Announced yesterday by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care at the Hospital for Sick Kids in Toronto, the plan is designed to take the savings created by these new technologies and re-investing them back into patient care.
The province estimates that by 2021, over $60 million in annual savings will be generated with this plan.
As well, it’s projected that the program will eliminate over 5 million tons of carbon-dioxide type gases by 2050, the equivalent of taking 40 thousand cars off the road
