-For-profit hospitals, medical offices, and nursing homes can boost earnings per share by a penny by reducing energy costs just 5%.

-Every $1 a non-profit healthcare organization saves on energy is equivalent to $20 in new revenues for hospitals or $10 for medical offices.

Health Care Facilities Are Energy-Intensive Environments
In today's competitive health care environment, hospitals and medical centers are challenged both to reduce operating costs and to improve patient care and comfort. Health care energy costs are staggering—medical facilities spend $5.3 billion annually on energy, and rank second only to the food service industry in intensity of energy usage.
Many health care facilities have aging, poorly insulated buildings that are subject to air infiltration and heat loss and gain. These buildings often house older equipment that consumes more energy and requires a higher level of maintenance than new equipment. Yet rising health care costs and competition for patient health care dollars make it difficult to prioritize the capital investments needed to reduce energy consumption and operations and maintenance costs. More info

Schools are Going Green
According to USGBC, America’s schools are registering for the USGBC LEED certification program at a rate of one per day. “When you consider the fact that 50 million young people spend 8 hours a school day in a school building, we should do everything we can to make that environment work for them, not against them.  Parents, teachers and school board officials understand better than anyone the link between child health and learning; and the fact is that children in green schools have fewer sick days and better test scores,” said Michelle Moore, Senior Vice President, USGBC. More Info

 

Healthcare Leaders Benefit by Superior Energy Management
EPA, through its ENERGY STAR program, provides partners with guidelines for superior energy management built on the practices of industry leaders. Use these guidelines to lower your operating costs and reinvest the savings in patient care. You will also demonstrate your organization’s environmental commitment by reducing pollution and the emissions that contribute to global warming. More info

 

Filtrete™ Commercial HVAC Filters to be used in the Olympic National Stadium in Beijing
3M and The Penn Air Group join forces to help improve air quality in Bird’s Nest Suites

The Penn Air Group was selected by the Chinese government due to their broad expertise at optimizing HVAC systems and their growing presence in Asia. According to The Penn Air Group’s executive vice president, John Lee, “The cost to benefit ratio far outperforms competitive products when one weighs the high degree of filtration efficiency, quality of construction, long life and low energy/operational costs.” More Info

 

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