/ en Thu, 08 May 2025 18:15:19 -0500 Fri, 16 Dec 22 16:46:29 -0600 /focusing-water-issues-through-ashrae-standard <p>A new standard is being developed by ASHRAE to help minimize the risks associated with building water systems. Standard Project Committee (SPC) 514P, Risk Management for Building Water Systems: Physical, Chemical, and Microbial Hazards, is designed to “establish practices to minimize the risk of disease and injury from physical, chemical, and microbial hazards associated with water systems in buildings,” according to ASHRAE.\</p> <p>The standard began its life as NSF/ANSI 444, Prevention of Injury and Disease Associated with Building Water Systems, which was transferred to ASHRAE in 2019. ASHRAE Standard 514P is built on the foundation of NSF/ANSI 444 and ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 188, which focuses on legionellosis.</p> <p><a class="btn btn-primary" href="https://www.hfmmagazine.com/articles/4397-focusing-on-water-issues-through-ashrae-standard" roll="button">Read More</a></p> Fri, 16 Dec 2022 16:46:29 -0600 HFM Article /building-automation-expands-hospitals <p>Building automation system (BAS) providers are tasked with helping health care facilities find ways to reduce their costs, increase staff efficiency and provide secure operational systems, all while ensuring resiliency and redundancy. </p><p>Hospitals pose many challenges to BASs, ranging from external factors such as changing regulatory requirements to internal factors such as resource constraints and staff shortages. </p><p><a class="btn btn-primary" href="https://www.hfmmagazine.com/articles/4401-building-automation-expands-for-hospitals" roll="button">Read More</a></p> Fri, 16 Dec 2022 16:46:22 -0600 HFM Article /developing-successful-sustainable-energy-program-0 <p>The best way to obtain the necessary knowledge and support for a strong sustainable energy program is to form a multidisciplinary team that brings together the expertise of several disciplines within the health system, including facilities staff, finance, supply chain/purchasing, public health professionals and a sustainability director.</p><p><a class="btn btn-primary" href="https://www.hfmmagazine.com/articles/4400-developing-a-successful-sustainable-energy-program" roll="button">Read More</a></p> Fri, 16 Dec 2022 16:46:16 -0600 HFM Article /environmental-equity-and-role-health-care-facilities <p>Devastating wildfires, deadly hurricanes, extreme heat, unprecedented ice storms, destructive flooding, crippling droughts. While such natural disasters are not new occurrences, the effects of climate change have exacerbated their impacts. The likelihood of more frequent and severe events means planning, preparation and recovery needs will only increase in the future.</p> <p><a class="btn btn-primary" href="https://www.hfmmagazine.com/articles/4363-environmental-equity-and-the-role-of-health-care-facilities" roll="button">Read More</a></p> Fri, 16 Dec 2022 16:27:06 -0600 HFM Article /developing-successful-sustainable-energy-program <p>The best way to obtain the necessary knowledge and support for a strong sustainable energy program is to form a multidisciplinary team that brings together the expertise of several disciplines within the health system, including facilities staff, finance, supply chain/purchasing, public health professionals and a sustainability director.</p><p><a class="btn btn-primary" href="https://www.hfmmagazine.com/articles/4400-developing-a-successful-sustainable-energy-program" roll="button">Read More</a></p> Fri, 16 Dec 2022 16:26:58 -0600 HFM Article /navigating-compliance-pandemic-era <p>The world’s concern over COVID-19 ebbs and flows as infections fluctuate and variants emerge, but from the perspective of American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE) advocacy experts, the illness continues to dominate conversations. </p> <p>The pandemic touches so many aspects of hospital facilities that its impact will be felt for decades. “We’ve realized that there are always going to be COVID-19 patients now,” says Jonathan Flannery, MHSA, CHFM, FASHE, FACHE, ASHE’s senior associate director of advocacy. “It’s something facilities managers are going to have to continually be addressing.”</p> <p><a class="btn btn-primary" href="https://www.hfmmagazine.com/articles/4394-navigating-compliance-in-the-pandemic-era" roll="button">Read More</a></p> Fri, 16 Dec 2022 16:26:51 -0600 HFM Article /member-tools-task-force-establishes-top-priorities <p>American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE) members contribute to association priorities in many ways; one key avenue is by being part of the �����Թ�Member Tools Task Force (MTTF). This group met via conference call in September to discuss priorities for 2022. �����Թ� 100 members were on the call, says Jonathan Flannery, MHSA, FASHE, FACHE, ASHE’s senior associate director of advocacy.</p> <p><a class="btn btn-primary" href="https://www.hfmmagazine.com/articles/4396-member-tools-task-force-establishes-top-priorities" roll="button">Read More</a></p> Fri, 16 Dec 2022 16:26:47 -0600 HFM Article /sustainability-fore-ashe-advocacy-efforts <p>The American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE) advocacy staff has spent much effort on sustainability, particularly how to define the terminology commonly used in that field.</p> <p><br /> Focusing on water issues through ASHRAE standard<br /> For example, the concept of minimizing carbon emissions is connected to terms such as “carbon neutral,” “carbon zero” and “carbon negative.” All of these terms mean somewhat the same thing but, without clear definitions, it’s difficult for a hospital to meet a particular carbon-related goal.</p> <p><a class="btn btn-primary" href="https://www.hfmmagazine.com/articles/4395-sustainability-to-the-fore-in-ashe-advocacy-efforts" roll="button">Read More</a></p> Fri, 16 Dec 2022 16:26:43 -0600 HFM Article /kaiser-reveals-next-steps-after-achieving-carbon-neutrality <p>With the necessary 24/7 nature of medical campuses, the health care field has become responsible for roughly 10% of U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. As the largest integrated nonprofit health system in the country, Kaiser Permanente has taken the call to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions seriously. In late 2020, the system achieved carbon-neutral status, eliminating its 800,000-ton annual carbon footprint. </p> <p><a class="btn btn-primary" href="https://www.hfmmagazine.com/articles/4125-kaiser-reveals-next-steps-after-achieving-carbon-neutrality" roll="button">Read More</a></p> Thu, 15 Dec 2022 11:02:02 -0600 HFM Article /ashe-makes-successful-return-person-conferences <p>The American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE) wrapped its 58th annual conference last week with its longstanding Just Ask �����Թ�forum. The six-person panel ended the four-day conference with a discussion on health care sustainability and decarbonization.</p> <p>The panel delved into the global shifts concerning environmental sustainability and how that impacts health care. It also fielded questions from the audience before capping ASHE’s successful return to in-person conferences since the beginning of the pandemic.</p> <p><a class="btn btn-primary" href="https://www.hfmmagazine.com/articles/4260-ashe-makes-successful-return-to-in-person-conferences" roll="button">Read More</a></p> Thu, 15 Dec 2022 11:01:53 -0600 HFM Article