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CHICAGO — The American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE) of the American Hospital Association has announced the winners of its 2024 Energy to Care Awards.

This eBook features a collection of articles describing extreme weather events that have affected health care facilities across the country.

ASHE has developed 52 actionable ECMs in eight categories to help facilities management teams better manage energy use and advance your health care facility’s sustainability journey.

Learn more about how to end the use of fossil fuels at your health care facility.

This category of emissions includes fossil fuel-powered equipment performed by health care organization staff.

Carbon emissions associated with energy use are often a mix of on-site usage and off-site emissions from regional utilities can be complicated to account for.

Embodied carbon consists of all the greenhouse gas emissions associated with building construction. Learn how to efficiently manage them.

Water usage in health care organizations is a less obvious source of carbon emissions. Learn more about its impact.

HVAC equipment using refrigerants can include packaged rooftop units, direct expansion split systems, chillers, variable refrigerant flow (VRF) systems and several others. Different equipment systems can contain different refrigerant types with varying emissions potential.

Anesthetic gases have a high global warming potential (GWP), learn how to mitigate its impact.

Review the certification process and ongoing requirements for the physical environment provisions of compounded sterile preparations (CSPs) in USP .

Learn how your health care facility’s energy reduction efforts compare to national benchmarks with this report.

Reduce energy consumption at your health care facility with Operation Decarobonization: A Sustainability Game Plan for Health Care Facilities.

This code overlay will assist health care systems with their decarbonization efforts

Treasure Hunt uncovers $116,600/year in potential energy savings to reallocate to patient care.

Using renewable energy sources, hospital reduces annual utility bill from more than $3 million to $2.8 million despite an almost 40% increase in the cost of electricity.

Team approach and the strategic use of data helps downtown hospital earn ENERGY STAR® certification.

System achieves 10 ENERGY STAR® designations and validates over $100 million in utility savings since 2008.

Hospital employs an ESCO to build enthusiasm and achieve ENERGY STAR® 100.

Large system takes steps to recognize more than $13 million in energy savings over four years.