Green Healthcare & Sustainability
St Francis Hospice is committed to improving sustainability performance for the health of our people, patients and the wider community.
Well-being is linked to environmental health, and we recognise our responsibility to person-centred and planetary healthcare. We also know that our actions can adversely impact the environment for generations. The St Francis Hospice Green Committee embraces greener thinking, encouraging behavioural change and exploring ways to lessen our environmental impact.
We are improving our environmental credentials through infrastructural, operational and behavioural changes, creating a health-enhancing community for patients and staff.
In St Francis Hospice, we encourage staff, volunteers, patients and visitors to use a reusable keep mug or ceramic mug instead of a takeaway cup for tea & coffee.
Every year over two hundred million takeaway cups are disposed of in Ireland. Broken down, that works out at over half a million takeaway cups every day or 22,000 per hour.
We also water coolers available throughout the Hospice to refill your re-useable water bottles.
We believe in St Francis Hospice that together we can make a difference. Small changes daily can have a BIG impact.
Barbara Kilbride
Green Healthcare Manager
St Francis Hospice Dublin
E-mail: bkilbride@sfh.ie
Raheny: (01) 832 7535
Blanchardstown: (01) 829 4000
