2025 Sustainability Champions Award

The Sustainability Champion Award recognizes facilities who demonstrate leadership in health care sustainability, paving the way for environmental stewardship, social equity and fiduciary responsibility in their health care organizations to support healthy, equitable and resilient environments and communities maintained over time.

About the Award

The Sustainability Champion recognizes facilities who demonstrate leadership in health care sustainability. Multiple facilities are eligible to win this distinguished award on an annual basis. Applications will be available on the Energy to Care website no later than February 21, 2025.


Criteria to win this award include:

  • Track energy, water and greenhouse gas emissions in the Energy to Care Dashboard. To learn more and begin tracking, click here.
  • Facilities are required to provide Professional Engineer (PE) verification
  • Facility must have an ENERGY STAR score 75 or above
  • Facility must be an ENERGY STAR Certified Hospital (must have been certified in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 or 2024).
  • Facility or system must have a published Sustainability Statement.
  • Facility or system must have a designated Sustainability Champion on staff or sustainability lead on staff.
  • Facility must have a designated Green Team


The winning facilities will be recognized at the 2025 ASHE Health Care Facilities Innovation Conference, July 27-30, 2025 in Columbus, OH.


Submitting this form to ASHE verifies that 1) your facility would like to be considered for the Energy to Care Sustainability Champion Award and 2) your energy, water and GHG data is up to date and accurate in the Energy to Care Dashboard.


Complete this application in its entirety. Incomplete applications will not be considered. APPLICATIONS ARE DUE APRIL 1, 2025.


Winning facilities will be notified by May 1st, 2025.


For more information contact energytocare@aha.org.


APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS


Applicants will need to collect the following prior to completing this application:

  • Facility Property Name as shown in the Energy to Care Dashboard
  • Facility Property Address as shown in the Energy to Care Dashboard
  • Facility Contact Name (must be an ASHE member)
  • Facility Contact ASHE Membership Number
  • Facility Contact Title and Department
  • Facility Contact phone and email
  • Weather Normalized Source EUI (2023)
  • Weather Normalized Source EUI (2024)
  • Verification of Water Tracking
  • Verification of GHG Emissions Tracking
  • ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager Score
  • ENERGY STAR Certification
  • Published Sustainability Statement
  • Designated Sustainability Champion or Staff Lead (name and contact)
  • Documentation verifying designated green team or similar


The Sustainability Champion Award requires PE verification. The name and contact information from ENERGY STAR Certification qualifies as PE verification of data.


All applications will be checked and verified through the review process including verification of dashboard information and accessing links and documentation.

Include the first and last name. The contact must be an ASHE member.

Sustainability Metrics

Data in this section should be obtained from your Energy to Care Dashboard Account.


IMPORTANT NOTE: The baseline year must be 2023 with a comparison year of 2024.

Accessing your Energy to Care Dashboard account, provide your source Energy Use Intensity for Dec 2023.

Accessing your Energy to Care Dashboard account, provide your source Energy Use Intensity for Dec. 2024.

By checking this box, you are verifying that your facility is tracking water usage on the Energy to Care Dashboard.

By checking the box, you are verifying that your facility is tracking greenhouse gas emissions in the Energy to Care Dashboard.

Accessing your Energy to Care Dashboard account, provide your ENERGY STAR score for Dec 2024.

Facility must be ENERGY STAR Certified (must have been certified in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 or 2024). Certification will be verified using ENERGY STAR Building Registry. By clicking here, you are verifying that your facility is an ENERGY STAR certified building:

Provide link to facility's or organization's published sustainability statement here:

Provide the name of the designated sustainability champion or sustainability lead on staff.

Provide email address of designated sustainability champion or staff lead.

Upload documentation verifying facility green team (e.g., team roster, newsletter, email correspondence, presentation, marketing materials, etc.)

Drag and drop files here or
Document Submission*

Along with the updates to the Energy to Care Dashboard, the ability to attach documents to properties using the Awards Verification tab enables operators to attach their Sustainability Champions "Green Team or Similar" documentation.


Please indicate below whether the "Designated Green Team or Similar" documentation is attached to this form or to the properties within the Energy to Care Dashboard.


Please note that in order to be eligible for the Sustainability Champions award, this documentation is required to be submitted in one of the two locations.

Verification of accuracy of information provided

Provide name of PE verifying the accuracy of information given. PE name from ENERGY STAR Certification is acceptable.

Provide full name here, verifying accuracy of information provided in this application.

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