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July 28, 2025

2025 ASHE Awards recognize members’ outstanding contributions to health care facilities field

CHICAGO — The American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE), a professional membership group of the American Hospital Association (AHA), celebrates the extraordinary achievements by members to improve the health care physical environment with its annual member awards. Awardees will be recognized during the 2025 Health Care Facilities Innovation Conference taking place July 27-30 in Columbus, Ohio.

The Crystal Eagle Leadership Award, considered ASHE’s lifetime achievement award, is presented to Dave Lockhart, CHFM, CEM, CRL, FASHE, executive director for facilities operations and maintenance for Kaiser Permanente’s national shared service operations based in Oakland, Calif.

Lockhart’s record of distinguished leadership within ASHE includes serving as ASHE Advisory Board Region 9 Representative and as Sustainability Liaison for the California Society for Healthcare Engineering. Over the course of his 30-year tenure in facilities departments at Kaiser Permanente, Lockhart has championed reliability-centered asset management and energy performance practices for the system, spearheading partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR^® program during its early years. Regarded as a leading subject matter expert for reliability-centered asset management practices for the broader health care facilities management field, Lockhart has authored or co-authored several notable publications on the subject including the ASHE Reliability-Centered Maintenance Guide and serves as the chair of the ASHE Reliability-Centered Maintenance Task Force.

“Few individuals exemplify ASHE’s mission of optimizing the health care physical environment more so than Dave Lockhart. His career-long dedication to continuous improvement is evident in his tireless advocacy for energy reduction and reliability-centered asset management,” says Chad Beebe, AIA, CHFM, FASHE, ASHE’s deputy executive director. “What’s more, his dedication to the ASHE community and to mentorship has charted a path for others to replicate his successes to the benefit of hospitals and health systems throughout the country.”

ASHE President’s Award presented to Larry Newlands

The ASHE President’s Award, which is given at the discretion of the sitting ASHE president to an individual who goes above and beyond to optimize the health care physical environment, is presented to Larry Newlands, CEM, CEP, director of energy management for Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston.

Newlands’ three decades of experience in facilities management includes more than 15 years working in health care facilities, where he has consistently and enthusiastically advocated for building performance optimization. His efforts to benchmark building energy usage across Memorial Hermann Health System have enabled the system to reinvest millions in saved resources into patient care. As an active member of the Texas Association for Healthcare Facilities Management, Newlands has collaborated with other ASHE Chapters to share utility benchmarking and energy management strategies that have become best practice in the health care facilities field. One such initiative also gave rise to ASHE’s Energy to Care Chapter Challenge, which has now become a fixture of ASHE’s energy management programming.

“Larry’s involvement with many health care systems and with ASHE Chapters has not been about personal ego, growth or influence,” says ASHE President Michael Hatton, MBA, CHFM, FASHE. “Rather, he excels in providing tools to health care facilities professionals to implement their own performance improvement processes and reap the resultant improvements to the bottom line, whether in terms of resources, emissions or energy efficiency.”

New SASHE and FASHE members recognized

Additionally, ASHE recognizes members who attained Senior (SASHE) and Fellow (FASHE) status within ASHE this year at the Health Care Facilities Innovation Conference.
The FASHE designation is bestowed upon those who have been ASHE members in good standing for at least 10 years and have contributed to the field through education, leadership and written contributions. The following members are new 

FASHE recipients: 

• Lindsey Brackett, CHFM, CHC, Certified Health Care Physical Environment Worker, CHOP-B, CSSBB-HC, FASHE, Legacy FM, Phoenix
• Ron Henley, CHFM, CHSP, LSO, CHEPP, RIAQM, CHEC, FASHE, Baptist Health Paducah (Ky.)
• George Pankiw, P.Eng, CHFM, CHC, CCHFM, FASHE, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario
• Frank Rudilosso, M.Eng, PE, CHSP, FASHE, NewYork-Presbyterian, New York
• Ryan Schramm, CHFM, CHC, MECH, FASHE, Banner Health, San Tan Valley, Ariz.

The SASHE designation is bestowed on those who have been ASHE members in good standing for at least five years and have supported ASHE in terms of education and leadership. The following members are new SASHE recipients:  

• Mary Alcaraz, PE, LC, LEED AP, SASHE, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, West Chester, Pa.
• Joshua Ashlock, DBA, MBA, CHFM, CHC, SASHE, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Missouri City, Texas
• Jason Beers, MS, CHFM, CLSS-HC, CFI-I, SASHE, JLL Healthcare, Charleston, S.C.
• Marnie Boomer, AIA, ACHE, SASHE, HDR Inc., Olympia, Wash.
• Dino Coliano, MBA, SASHE, Avanzare Advisory Services, Naples, Fla.
• Scott Czubkowski, PE, CHC, CHFM, SASHE, Medxcel, Miramar, Fla.
• Brian Denhoff, CHFM, SASHE, McLaren Healthcare, Charlevoix, Mich.
• Dafronjise Ellington, MLS, CHFM, CHC, CFM, SASHE, UC San Diego Health, La Jolla, Calif.
• Eric Granzow, PE, FPE, HFDP, CEM, LEED AP, SASHE, Olsson, Omaha, Neb.
• Brady Housden, CHFM, CHC, CHOP-B, SASHE, Community Health Network, Fishers, Ind.
• George McFerron, CHFM, SASHE, Baptist Health System, Little Rock, Ark.
• Shane Meier, CHFM, SASHE, NMC Health, Newton, Kan.
• Mark Mochel, BSME, MBA, CHFM, SASHE, Brightly, A Siemens Company, Grand Rapids, Mich.
• Janet Pate, BSN, MHA, JD, SASHE, Director, UAB Medicine/University of Alabama Health Services Foundation, Alabaster, Ala.
• Brent Rutherford, CHFM, CEM, CBCP, SASHE, Texas Health Resources – Flower Mound, Wylie, Texas
• Angela Timperio, BS, CHSP, CHFM, CHFSM, SASHE, Life Safety Enterprises Inc., Willoughby, Ohio
• Sean Tracy, MHA, CHFM, SASHE, Advent Health, Denver

Emerging Regional Leader Awards recognize health care engineering, facility management excellence

ASHE’s Emerging Regional Leader Awards recognize 10 young professionals and individuals new to the field, one in each of ASHE’s 10 regions, for their contributions to the areas of health care engineering and facilities management; planning, design and construction; safety; clinical and biomedical engineering; and technical management. The following members are recognized as the recipients of this year’s Emerging Regional Leader Awards:

• Region 1: Everton Lynch, CHFM, Field Director, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York
• Region 2: Chris Zdon, CHFM, Maintenance Supervisor, Atlanticare, Atlantic City, N.J.
• Region 3: Josh King, CHFM, Vice President, Facilities Planning and Development, Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Lexington, Ky.
• Region 4: Andrew Williams, CHFM, Assistant Director, Health System Safety, USA Health, Mobile, Ala.
• Region 5: Kyle Cross, MHA, CHFM, Director of Support Services, Greene County General Hospital, Linton, Ind.
• Region 6: Walker Golubiff, Facility Manager, Mayo Clinic Health System, Menomonie, Wisc.
• Region 7: George McFerron, CHFM, Director of Facilities Management Metro Hospitals, Baptist Health System, Little Rock, Ark.
• Region 8: Brian Langlois, CHFM, CRL, Facility Manager, Children's Hospital Colorado – North Campus, Broomfield, Colo.
• Region 9: Joseph Brothman, Director, General Services, UCI Medical Center, Orange, Calif.
• Region 10: Rachelle Borja, Director – Support Services, Guam Regional Medical City, Dededo, Guam 

For more information on ASHE’s awards, visit ashe.org/awards.