What urgent care can teach hospitals about low cost energy management
You don’t need an Emergency Room to diagnose a cold. ERs are for life threatening treatment with highly trained physicians who can treat anything and available 24/7. As a result, EDs are very expensive places to go if you have a cold. Urgent care clinics are more appropriate for low-acuity, primary care services.
Just like you don’t need an ED to treat a cold, you don’t need expensive engineers for all energy audits. Hospitals do NOT need to call mechanical engineers for routine energy assessments. It’s too expensive. My mechanical engineer friends agree. I know hospitals who had to get grants to afford a mechanical engineer audit. That is silly. You can get the same diagnosis and use the money you would have spent on engineers to reduce your energy waste with SION60’s ultra-low cost energy audit.
Think of SION60 as your low-cost urgent care clinic for energy assessment and reduction. SION60 is a certified energy auditor by the Association of Energy Engineers. We auto-calculate energy savings for the top 18 most common retrofit projects. We use AI-enabled technology to show you where your building is wasting energy and how to save money every day with a color-coded list!
Here’s some data: 1.4% of a hospital’s revenue is spent on energy, but it’s increasing from electricity costs. That alone will reduce margins. 76% of hospital electricity use is on lighting, HVAC and tech, 86% of natural gas is on heating. Our on-site assessment interviews and touches the equipment with your facility team- the people who really know your building’s problems and where energy is wasted. We assess major energy uses like: lighting, heat, boilers, cooling, air handling units, kitchen, radiology, ICU, OR, leaks, neglected preventive maintenance, the building envelope, local energy regulations and utility rebates. We build a simple budget, recommended solutions and ROI
Our ClearPath Audit is $7500 and gives you a strategic roadmap for energy savings, utility cost management and a sustainability plan. We also help you complete these projects so you avoid stalled implementation due to staff turnover and budget cycles. How do you fund this ultra low-cost assessment? Hold 1.0 FTE open for 1 month. Done.
SION60 is disrupting energy management with our ultra low-cost platform and projects so every health organization can do it. We help you take care of PatientEarth and your bottom line.
