ASHE, part of the American Hospital Association, honored the hospitals as part of its Energy Efficiency Commitment program. Hospitals that reduced their energy consumption by 10 percent or more over a 12-month period — or repeat honorees that reduced consumption by an additional 5 percent — were recognized:
• Advocate BroMenn Medical Center in Normal, Ill.
• Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Ill.
• Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago
• Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Ill.
• Aurora Sheboygan (Wis.) Memorial Medical Center
• Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center in Milwaukee
• Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tenn.
• Bethesda North Hospital in Cincinnati
• Bon Secours St. Francis Downtown in Greenville, S.C.
• Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee.
• Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati
• Memorial Hermann Westside Hospital in Houston
• Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfreesboro
• Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Tenn.
• St. Elizabeth Edgewood (Ky.)
• St. Elizabeth Ft. Thomas (Ky.)
• St. Elizabeth Florence (Ky.)
• Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston (west tower)
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