Hospital community benefit programs can address health priorities while also impacting the environment, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions that mitigate the health risks of a changing climate.

This webinar described new tools and strategies for identifying and responding to environmental and climate exposures within community benefit programs.  It featured a leading Catholic health system, Providence St. Joseph, which is piloting a new community health needs assessment process that integrates climate and environmental assessment practices, creating strategies to identify health practices with climate co-benefits, and cross training caregivers throughout its system.

Presenters: Dora Barilla, DrPH, MPH, Executive Leader, Community Investment, Providence Health & Services; Elizabeth Schenk, Ph.D., MHI, RN, BC, Nurse Scientist, Providence Health & Services; and Ellen Tohn, MCP, Consultant, Tohn Environmental