Sustained Performance Award
ASHE’s Gold Standard Awards for Health Care Facility Energy Savings
The Energy to Care Sustained Performance Award celebrates facilities accomplishing sustainability goals in their health care organizations to support healthy, equitable and resilient environments and communities maintained over time.
Criteria to win this award include:
- Facility MUST be tracking energy and water consumption, as well as Greenhouse Gas emissions in the Energy to Care Dashboard. Signature verification of data accuracy is required.
- NOTE: ASHE will verify award winners’ data for each award cycle.
- Facility must have an ENERGY STAR Score of 75 or above for three years consecutively (2023, 2024, 2025) OR weather normalized SOURCE EUI equal to baseline (2022) or lower for 3 or more years (2023, 2024, 2025).
How to WIN and be RECOGNIZED?
- The Energy to Care Sustained Performance Award is an application-only process. Applications will be available on the Energy to Care website no later than April 1, 2026.
- Winners will be notified no later than May 15, 2026.
- Winners will be recognized at the 2025 Health Care Facilities Innovation Conference (HFIC), Aug 2-5, 2026, Minneapolis, MN.
- PDF award certificate, award logos, letter of recognition, and information on purchasing award logo wear and physical award hardware will be sent to facilities teams by September 1, 2026.
For the full 2026 Energy to Care awards criteria overview, please download the PDF file at the bottom of this page.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Energy to Care Helpdesk at energytocare@aha.org.
Track Your Eligibility
All facilities participating in the Energy to Care Dashboard are eligible to win an award. Award Progress can be viewed on the home page of the dashboard through the following widget.
