Banner Health Recognized for Excellence in Facility Management

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 8, 2021

CHICAGO – Banner Health, a non-profit health system based in Phoenix that serves patients in six states, won the 2021 Excellence in Health Care Facility Management Award for centralizing facilities operations with an innovative Remote Operations Center (ROC). The award, presented by the American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE) of the American Hospital Association, was announced on Monday, November 8. 

The Banner Health team consolidated once decentralized technology, policies, processes and procedures, creating universal protocols to ensure the best approach is applied to the operation of all building equipment. The ROC also allows the team to identify anomalies in equipment operations across their facility portfolio, and its initiation radically shifted Banner’s health care facilities management practices to data-driven decision processes.  

The ROC also underpins the conservation of resources that support sustainability goals and patient care. Since 2016, the team has reduced annual energy spend by almost $12 million per year. Its operations directly impact the patient healing environment and include proactively monitoring patient room temperature setpoints to ensure patient comfort, generating dashboards that present real-time pressure, humidity and temperature data to prevent health care-acquired infections, and predicting failure in facility equipment before it occurs.  

The Excellence in Health Care Facility Management Award recognizes individuals or facility management departments that implement new or innovative programs or processes to optimize the physical environment and improve patient care. For more information about ASHE awards, visit ashe.org/awards. 

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About ASHE
ASHE is a professional membership group of the American Hospital Association. More than 12,500 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 www.ashe.org.