In an article which first appeared in Canadian Healthcare Facilities, the monthly magazine of the Canadian Healthcare Engineering Society (CHES), Michelle O’Brodovich and Etienne deMuelenaere, of independent, ISO-certified, energy efficiency specialist, Ecosystem (which has offices across the US and Canada).
Describe a wide-ranging energy conservation programme, involving 29 different measures at four hospital sites, currently being implemented for Lakeridge Health in Ontario, Canada.
Like so many other Canadian hospitals, Durham Region’s Lakeridge Health (LH) – one of Ontario’s largest community hospitals, comprising four hospital sites and three emergency rooms – was feeling the squeeze of the healthcare cash crunch. The hospital needed to reduce spending, yet also fund urgent infrastructure upgrades, all while maintaining its commitment to excellent patient care.
“We knew that if we didn’t do something to cut our energy costs, we were going to be in operational trouble,” said Neil Clarke, director of Engineering and Infrastructure at Lakeridge Health. “We were kind of in a pickle where we couldn’t move forward, with a lack of capital investment funding, and our infrastructure was failing.”
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