- Provide health care in locations that are accessible to patients, staff and visitors without causing them unnecessary travel. Consider community-based primary care, home care and co-locating medical services with related social services or community programs.
- Develop strategies for telemedicine, communication by e-mail and other alternatives to face-to-face encounters between caregivers and patients.
- Encourage staff, patients and visitors to walk or use car pools, public transport or bicycles whenever possible. Install showers, lockers and bicycle storage facilities to encourage staff to adopt healthy modes of transportation
- Negotiate discounts for public transport to provide incentives for its use.
- Optimize the energy efficiency of hospital fleet vehicles by using hybrid, electric or appropriate bio-fuel technologies.
- Purchase from local suppliers, and/or suppliers who use fuel efficient transportation.
- Dispose of waste near the point of generation.
- Advocate for progressive public transportation policies in the interest of environmental health.
