CHICAGO | The American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE), a professional membership group of the American Hospital Association, has announced the winners of its 2026 Energy to Care Awards, recognizing healthcare facilities that have significantly reduced their energy use and emissions and advanced their sustainability goals.
This year, 70 healthcare facilities across 13 healthcare organizations have earned the Sustainability Champions Award, the program’s highest distinction, for demonstrating strong leadership in pursuit of reducing healthcare’s environmental footprint and using saved resources to support patient care. The winners represent just 1.4% of the total facilities participating in ASHE’s Energy to Care program, which enables organizations to track, benchmark and reduce their energy usage.
The following hospitals and healthcare systems will be recognized at ASHE’s Health Care Facilities Innovation Conference taking place Aug. 2-5 in Minneapolis:
- Advocate Health, representing 23 winning facilities
- Ascension Healthcare, representing 11 winning facilities
- Bon Secours Mercy Health, representing 8 winning facilities
- Children’s Hospital Colorado – Anschutz
- Hawaii Pacific Health, representing two winning facilities
- Memorial Hermann Health System, representing nine winning facilities
- OhioHealth, representing two winning facilities
- OSF HealthCare, representing two winning facilities
- Parkland Health
- Prime Healthcare, representing seven winning facilities
- Sutter Health, representing two winning facilities
- UF Health Shands South Campus
- UPMC Northwest
The program also recognizes past Energy to Care Award winners who have continued to meet their sustainability goals by maintaining or further reducing annual emissions and energy use intensity. This year, 328 facilities earned the Sustained Performance Award, accounting for less than 7% of the total facilities participating in the Energy to Care program.
ASHE congratulates these Sustainability Champions and Sustained Performance award winners. In addition to these awardees, ASHE recognizes its other 2026 Energy to Care Award winners, who cumulatively represent 2.8% of facilities enrolled in the Energy to Care Program. All 140 winning facilities have earned ASHE’s Energy to Care Award by demonstrating a 10% or greater reduction in energy use intensity over the previous year or 15% over two years, as tracked by reporting verified energy and water consumption data in the Energy to Care Dashboard.
In addition, through the Energy to Care Program, ASHE Chapters can participate in a challenge to demonstrate the highest reductions in energy consumption. Seventeen ASHE Chapters participated in the Energy to Care 2026 Chapter Challenge. ASHE congratulates the winners of the 2026 Chapter Challenge and thanks all participants for their commitment to saving energy.
- Large Category Winner: North Carolina Healthcare Engineers Association
- Small Category Winner: Healthcare Facility Managers Association of Delaware Valley
The Energy to Care Program has grown significantly since its inception in 2006. Enhancements to the program since 2018, including the introduction of new awards categories, have led to a 600% expansion in participation; to date more than 4,900 facilities have participated in Energy to Care. Throughout the life of the program, healthcare facilities have seen a combined savings of over $550 million reallocated to patient care, showing strong evidence for investing in energy reduction.
View the complete list of 2026 Energy to Care Award winners, including all Sustainability Champions and Sustained Performance award-winning facilities, at energytocare.org/
