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Learn how to use the Energy to Care Dashboard, a free tool that helps you track and reduce your facility’s energy use and costs. Register for this online workshop and get access to expert guidance, best practices, and peer support.

Just Ask ASHE:Q1 2020 WebinarSpeaker: ASHEGet trusted answers to your compliance questions from a panel of code experts.Download the Presentation

The American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE) and Koffel Associates performed a study to investigate the hazards posed by non-sprinkler system components being supported by and/or touching sprinkler pipes.

Speaker: Tom Stewart and Jonathan FlanneryThe day-to-day operations of the health care environment can be overwhelming and intimidating to the point of paralysis. This session provides insight into managing the patient care environment and ensuring success as a leader in the field of health care engineering. Topics discussed include leadership skills, effective maintenance and operational strategies, and available resources.

USP compliance is essential for health care facilities. Protect workers and patients by following guidelines for handling hazardous drugs.

This monograph describes a literature study of the 886 requirements defined in ANSI/ASHE/ASHRAE Standard 170 Ventilation of Health Care Facilities to determine which requirements are supported by engineering and/or scientific evidence.

Speakers: Catherine Gow, James Snyder and Lynn Lang Identify how populations are best served via community-based health care access to specialty care, and the care of medical conditions is improved by the quality within the community.    

Tuesday, July 16, 2019Speakers: Dennis Ford, Mike Mango and Tyler GreenwoodThe Joint Commission is focusing on the certification process for pharmacy sterile compounding clean rooms in 2018-2019 surveys. The Central Division of Atrium Health was surveyed in 2018 and conducted a multidisciplinary review of requirements, roles, and responsibilities around clean rooms. This session presents a resulting road map to developing a program for continual certification. 

Monday, July 15, 2019Speakers: Fran Charney and Mike ZorichASHE and ASHRM have developed tools and resources to help members understand and implement USP <800> standards. The session covers physical environment compliance with the chapter and introduces a new ASHE monograph and ASHRM checklist (both available here), which will teach and guide readers through changes needed to keep patients, staff and visitors safe. 

Speakers: Tim Adams, Sue Andersen, Kathy Tolomeo, David M. Sine, Kathryn PetrovicThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as well as the Joint Commission and other accrediting organizations are placing an increased emphasis on assessing risks and providing a physical environment consistent with the identified risks. This session focuses on the process of risk assessment and mitigation of behavioral health patient safety physical risks. 

Ensure that preventive maintenance operations are ingrained into the building of new facilities, a health care project management best practice.

The performance of hazard surveillance rounds, as it relates to indoor air quality (IAQ), provides a key opportunity to identify IAQ issues. ASHE's “Indoor Air Quality Checklist Tool” can be used to supplement hazard surveillance rounds and incorporate items related to IAQ.

Energy to Care Dashboard offers an at-a-glance view of health care facilities' energy use. Reduce user burden with easy-to-use benchmarks and monitoring tools.

Find additional resources that will help you reduce energy use and get the most out of the Energy to Care program.

Get real-world sustainability tips from professionals in health care facilities. Learn how to thrive in energy sustainability best practices.

Since 2010, over 3,500 facilities have recognized significant energy savings through the Energy to Care program.

This downloadable Word document is a sample monthly log for maintaining special ventilation rooms.DOWNLOAD NOW

First significant benchmarking effort in health care facility management operations based on information collected by IFMA and ASHEDOWNLOAD NOW 

This collection of articles will help health care facilities professionals understand and prepare for new trends that experts anticipate emerging in the near future of our field.