Success Stories - JLL-Adventist Health

Overview of Case Study

Trimming energy costs in a hospital is challenging, but that challenge is multiplied when a large system decides to cut energy costs. That’s what Matthew Atwong faced when he joined Adventist Health, a 19-hospital organization with facilities in California, Oregon, and Hawaii, in 2014.

Atwong is the corporate engineering director for JLL-Adventist Health, the partnership that operates Adventist’s facilities. He remembers that the initial ENERGY STAR® scores for Adventist’s facilities ranged no higher than 50. ENERGY STAR certification requires a score of 75, so the challenge was significant.

Read More

Related Resources

Resources
Embodied carbon consists of all the greenhouse gas emissions associated with building construction. Learn how to efficiently manage them.
Resources
Water usage in health care organizations is a less obvious source of carbon emissions. Learn more about its impact.
Resources
HVAC equipment using refrigerants can include packaged rooftop units, direct expansion split systems, chillers, variable refrigerant flow (VRF)…
Resources
Anesthetic gases have a high global warming potential (GWP), learn how to mitigate its impact.
Monograph
Review the certification process and ongoing requirements for the physical environment provisions of compounded sterile preparations (CSPs) in USP .
Compliance Tools
This risk assessment tool has been developed to help health care facility staff comply with the risk-based, patient-focused approach described by the…