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This comprehensive presentation will teach you how to identify, evaluate, pay for, and implement sustainable solutions for healthcare facilities. Peter helped spearhead the “Health Care Leader’s Guide to Sustainability and Decarbonization” in conjunction with American Hospital Association and ASHE. His experience as an architectural engineer guides his approach to “activating ESG through facilities.” Don’t miss this important presentation for leadership teams, from c-suite to facility management.

Leveraging digital technology at home is a patient-friendly way to reduce healthcare’s physical and carbon footprints. Seth Gabarro will show how Best Buy Health is supporting healthcare organizations with care at home technologies in three areas:

• Wellness @ Home using smart home tech, medical devices, & fitness equipment

• Aging @ Home using emergency response systems, simple phones, Alexa devices and phone apps to maintain connectivity to caregivers and loved ones.

• Care @ Home using remote patient monitoring, telehealth, and patient engagement to manage chronic conditions or provide care beyond the hospital.

Jay West, representing the American Chemistry Council, chronicles the issues with “forever chemicals” in healthcare and the impact ongoing legislative actions have and will have on their use. Jay will provide an up-to-the-minute profile of New England States’ varying restrictions and regulations on the use of PFAS chemicals in the healthcare environment.

At a time when hospital infrastructure is often outdated and operating costs are at an all-time high, rural care centers must evaluate their energy consumption and find ways to upgrade aging infrastructure. Kailash will present examples of how regional institutions are leveraging Inflation Reduction Act Tax Incentives, Efficiency Maine, and other funding sources to help replace systems and reduce long-term operating costs.

Kailash will talk about what steps you can take to get to Net Zero. Decarbonization is viewed as expensive, but it is a necessity for the future and your stakeholders. Just as students want to study in a campus that does not burn fossil fuels, patients want the same at your hospitals. Decarbonization starts with energy efficiency. Resource-efficient decarbonization means we reduce, recover, and recycle before we go all electric.