Creating Sustainability Through Green Health Care with Neil Ritchie

Today we talk with Neil Ritchie, Executive Director of the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care. He is an experienced health care executive who has worked as a CEO, Chief Operating Officer, Senior Operating Officer and Vice President of large, multi-site academic teaching centers, regional health authorities and community hospitals in three provinces Canada. He’s also worked as Director of Business Development for Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Medicine. He has been an executive with several health technology start-up companies and created a successful international partnership with a Dutch software development company to deploy a governance, risk and compliance software solution to pharmacies, hospitals, nursing homes and disability care organizations throughout Canada. Neil shares with us the work that is being done in Canada and beyond to green our health care delivery systems. With climate change increasingly impacting our world it is evident that health care will be equally affected. Neil offers his perspective on how health care leaders can step up and influence change in this area.