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July 1, 2025

ASHE recognizes health care facilities championing energy reduction efforts

CHICAGO — The American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE) of the American Hospital Association has announced the winners of its 2025 Energy to Care Awards, which recognize health care facilities that have significantly reduced their energy use and emissions and advanced their sustainability goals.

This year, 87 health care facilities across 12 health care organizations have earned the Sustainability Champions Award, the program’s highest distinction, for demonstrating strong leadership in pursuit of reducing health care’s environmental footprint and using saved resources to support patient care. The 87 winners represent less than 2% of the total facilities participating in ASHE’s Energy to Care Program, which allows organizations to track and reduce their energy usage.

The following hospitals and health care systems will be recognized at ASHE’s Health Care Facilities Innovation Conference taking place July 27-30 in Columbus, Ohio:

• Advocate Health, representing 27 winning facilities
• Ascension Healthcare, representing 10 winning facilities
• Children's Hospital Colorado – Anschutz
• Kaiser Permanente, representing 16 winning facilities
• Memorial Hermann Health System, representing 15 winning facilities
• Mercy Health, representing seven winning facilities
• Methodist Olive Branch Hospital
• OSF St. James – John W. Albrecht Medical Center
• Pali Momi Medical Center
• Parkland Health
• Prime Healthcare, representing six winning facilities
• UPMC Northwest

The program also recognizes past Energy to Care Award winners who have continued to meet their sustainability goals by maintaining or further reducing annual emissions and energy use intensity. In 2025, 267 facilities earned the Sustained Performance Award, accounting for 6% of the total facilities participating in the program.

ASHE congratulates these Sustainability Champions and Sustained Performance award winners. In addition to these awardees, ASHE recognizes its other 2025 Energy to Care Award winners, who cumulatively represent 2.2% of facilities enrolled in the Energy to Care Program. All 97 winning facilities have earned ASHE’s Energy to Care Award by demonstrating a 10% or greater reduction in energy use intensity over the previous year or 15% over two years, as tracked by reporting verified energy and water consumption data in the Energy to Care Dashboard.

In addition, through the Energy to Care program, ASHE Chapters can participate in a challenge to demonstrate the highest reductions in energy consumption. Fifteen ASHE Chapters participated in the Energy to Care 2025 Chapter Challenge. ASHE congratulates the winners of the 2025 Chapter Challenge and thanks all participants for their work to save energy.

• Large Category Winner: North Carolina Healthcare Engineers Association
• Small Category Winner: Kentucky Society of Healthcare Engineers

Participation in the Energy to Care Program has seen consistent growth since its inception in 2006. More than 4,400 facilities have participated since 2010, and in the entire life of the program, health care facilities have seen a combined savings of more than $550 million reallocated to patient care.

View the complete list of 2025 Energy to Care Award winners, including the names of all Sustainability Champions and Sustained Performance award-winning facilities, at ashe.org/energytocare/award-recipients.

About Energy to Care
Energy to Care is ASHE’s award-winning sustainability program that empowers health care facilities management professionals to add value to their organizations through an environmental sustainability focus. The program offers participants resources to help facilities management professionals reduce their organization’s energy consumption, improving operational efficiency while optimizing patient care. To learn more, visit energytocare.org.