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ENERGY STAR for Healthcare
Healthcare organizations spend nearly $8.8 billion* on energy each year to meet patient needs. Every dollar a nonprofit healthcare organization saves on energy has the equivalent impact on the operating margin as increasing revenues by $20 for hospitals or $10 for medical offices**.
*Source: EIA, CBECS 2003, Adjusted for inflation to 2008 dollars
**This assumes a 5% and 10% operating margin respectively. To calculate this metric based on your operating margin, go to the Financial Equivalency Calculator in the ENERGY STAR Healthcare Energy Savings Financial Analysis Calculators.
What You Can Do
- Manage energy in senior care communities.
- Join ENERGY STAR.
- Prepare an Energy Strategy for the Future
- Establish a comprehensive energy management program using ENERGY STAR's Guidelines for Energy Management.
- Read the Healthcare Fact Sheet
(215KB). - Read Making the Business Case for good energy management in healthcare facilities.
- Use the Healthcare Energy Savings Financial Analysis Calculators
- Identify Best Practices with the Low Cost Operations & Maintenance Tip Sheet (63.1KB)
- Benchmark your energy performance with Portfolio Manager.
- Read Benchmarking to Save Energy (420KB).
- Use the Healthcare Benchmarking Starter Kit.
- Learn about Service Providers that Offer Automated Benchmarking.
- Satisfy requirements for the Green Guide for Health Care
.
- Read Benchmarking to Save Energy
- Participate in the ENERGY STAR Challenge.
- Use the ENERGY STAR Challenge Toolkit.
- View photos of ASHE Challenge Support Event
- Become an ENERGY STAR Change the World Pledge Driver.
- Receive training through our Recommended Workshops for Healthcare.
- Read about ENERGY STAR in Healthcare Publications.
- Purchase ENERGY STAR qualified products to save energy throughout the building.
- Design your new or expansion facility to be energy efficient.
- Learn how to use Target Finder for your hospital addition (712KB).
- Learn how to use Target Finder for your hospital addition
- Use on-site renewable energy.
What Others Are Doing
- ASHE Energy Efficiency Commitment (E2C)
- ENERGY STAR Healthcare Partners
- Profiles of Healthcare Facilities that earned the ENERGY STAR
- Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council Launches New Energy Efficiency Improvement Program
- Labs for the 21st Century
- Healthcare Associations
- What Partners Are Saying
ENERGY STAR Success Stories
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital
- Providence Health and Services
- Making the Business Case
- Healthcare Success Stories Archive
Earn Recognition for Your Achievements
Join the growing group of organizations honored and recognized by EPA for their outstanding contributions to protecting the environment through superior energy efficiency.
- Apply for the ENERGY STAR for Your Buildings
- Tips for Low Cost Validations
- Earn “Designed to Earn ENERGY STAR” for your new building design
- ENERGY STAR Leaders
- ENERGY STAR Awards
ENERGY STAR Qualified Products
The ENERGY STAR label appears on over 60 different product categories. Use these products in your facilities to lower energy use, save money, and help protect the environment.
- Purchasing and Procurement
- Choose an ENERGY STAR Commercial Kitchen Package.
- Use the Quantity Quotes Web site for bulk procurement of select ENERGY STAR qualified products.
- Learn about FEMP-designated energy-efficient equipment.
