ASHE Celebrates Hospitals Championing Sustainable Practices
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 8, 2022
CHICAGO – Three health care facilities – Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital and Carilion Rockbridge Community Hospital in Virginia, and Aurora Medical Center in Manitowoc County, Wis. – have earned ASHE’s Energy to Care Program 2022 Sustainability Champion Award for demonstrating strong leadership in becoming more sustainable and using saved resources to support patient care. The American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE) of the American Hospital Association will recognize these facilities – alongside more than one hundred other hospitals that have earned an Energy to Care Award for lowering energy use – at its Annual Conference and Technical Exhibition, July 17-20 in Boston.
The Energy to Care Program participation has seen consistent growth since its inception in 2006. Participation has grown to more than 3,600 facilities since 2010, and in the entire life of the program, health care facilities have seen a combined savings of over $550 million dollars reallocated to patient care.
The program also recognizes past Energy to Care Award winners who have continued to accomplish sustainability goals with the inaugural Sustained Performance Award. ASHE congratulates these facilities for further reducing or maintaining reduced emissions:
- Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital
- Carilion Roanoke Community Hospital
- Carilion New River Valley Medical Center
- Carilion Rockbridge Community Hospital
- Aurora Sinai Medical Center
- Aurora Medical Center Oshkosh
- Aurora St. Luke's South Shore Medical Center
- Aurora Sheboygan Memorial Medical Center
- Aurora Medical Center in Summit
- Aurora Medical Center in Grafton
- Aurora Medical Center in Burlington
ASHE congratulates these Sustainability Champion and Sustained Performance awardees and all the hospitals that earned an Energy to Care Award. View all the 2022 Energy to Care Award Winners at energytocare.org/EnergyAwards.
Through the Energy to Care Program, ASHE affiliated chapters can participate in a challenge, competing to demonstrate the highest reductions in energy consumption. Seventeen ASHE affiliated chapters participated in the Energy to Care 2022 Chapter Challenge. ASHE congratulates the winners of the 2022 Chapter Challenge and thanks all participants for their work to save energy.
- Large Category Winners: Ohio Society for Healthcare Facilities Management
- Small Category Winner: Chesapeake Area Society of Healthcare Engineering, Inc.
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About ASHE
The American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE) is a professional membership group of the American Hospital Association. More than 12,000 members rely on ASHE as a critical source of professional development, information and advocacy, including representation on key issues that affect their work in the health care physical environment. For more information about ASHE, contact 312-422-3800 or visit ashe.org.
About Energy to Care
Energy to Care is an energy reduction program for health care facility management professionals who want to add value to their organizations through energy savings. ASHE is working hard to help members set and achieve sustainability goals. To meet this objective, ASHE created trusted sustainability resources that are specifically tailored for health care facilities. Visit energytocare.org to learn more about the program.