Dive Brief:
- Over recent years, studies have demonstrated that assist healthcare sustainability investments are good not only for meeting a hospital admission but also the bottom line.
- For example, a study by architecture firm Perkins + Will showed that hospitals that pursue Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) benefit from energy savings without adding much to capital construction costs.
- According to John Orsini, CFO at two-hospital system Cadence Health based in Winfield, Ill., executives are increasingly factoring in sustainability and greening when they spend on infrastructure, seeing these qualities as an offset to today's increasing financial pressures.
Dive Insight:
Going green and attaining LEED certification are strategies that work anywhere in the U.S. and add greatly to the physical environment in which patients receive care. What's great about these strategies is that they also offer some payback on the capital invested in going with a sustainable architecture. This sounds like a win-win for patients and hospital administrators.