Decarbonization
Decarbonization is reducing CO2 emissions resulting from human activity, with the eventual goal of eliminating them. In practice, getting to zero net emissions requires shifting from fossil fuels to alternative low-carbon energy sources.
The Energy to Care Chapter Challenge program allows ASHE affiliated chapters to participate in a friendly competition against one another in an effort to reduce their energy consumption.
The Energy to Care Sustainability Champions recognizes facilities that demonstrate leadership in health care sustainability.
The Energy to Care Award celebrates facilities accomplishing sustainability goals that will pave the way for environmental stewardship, social equity and fiduciary responsibility
The Energy to Care awards celebrate facilities accomplishing sustainability goals that will pave the way for health care organizations to support healthy, equitable and resilient environments and communities.
This 2 day event brings together health care facilities professionals on a quest to discover low-cost energy savings opportunities at a hospital or clinical site.
Since 2010, over 3,500 facilities have recognized significant energy savings through the Energy to Care program.
- Sustainability
- Decarbonization
- Operational Excellence
- Performance improvement
- Leadership
- Health Care Facility Management
- Infrastructure
- Benchmarking
- Financial Management
- Capital Equipment
- Energy Management
- Facility Engineering
- Workforce
- Organizational Change
- Workforce
- Sustainability
- Decarbonization
- Planning, Design, and Construction
Energy to Care award winners* are recognized for reducing their energy consumption by 10 percent or more over their baseline energy consumption.
Energy to Care is an award-winning sustainability program from ASHE
This monograph provides an overview of the requirements of ASHRAE Standard 188: Legionellosis: Risk Management for Building Water Systems and provides compliance guidance for health care facilities.
This monograph sets forth energy procurement best practices and explains how hospitals should approach energy procurement using the principles of aggregation, alignment, and analytics.