ASHE celebrates top members, facilities and organizations

The American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE) celebrated the outstanding achievements by members to improve the health care physical environment with its annual member awards at the Health Care Facilities Innovation Conference™ (formerly the ASHE Annual Conference & Technical Exhibition) on July 21-24 in Anaheim, Calif.

They are featured in this special cover story section of Health Facilities Management (HFM) magazine.

The section begins with interviews with Daniel J. Campbell, CHFM, FASHE, regulatory compliance officer at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, who received the Crystal Eagle Leadership Award, considered ASHE’s lifetime achievement award; and George “Skip” Smith, SASHE, of Hilliard, Ohio, who received the ASHE President’s Award, which is given at the discretion of the sitting ASHE president to an individual who goes above and beyond to optimize the health care physical environment.

The following pages of the section include ASHE Fellow (FASHE) and Senior (SASHE) recipients; Emerging Regional Leader Award recipients, who are recognized from each ASHE region for their demonstrated commitment to the field and their interest in developing further leadership skills; and ASHE Chapter Award recipients, who are recognized for outstanding achievements and contributions to optimizing the health care physical environment.

Following those awards is a roundup of ASHE’s Energy to Care^® awards, with profiles of 21 Sustainability Champions Award winners recognized for demonstrating leadership in sustainability on an annual basis. Additionally, the section includes awards listings for Sustained Performance, which celebrates accomplishing sustainability goals supporting healthy, equitable and resilient environments and communities; Energy to Care^®, which recognizes facilities accomplishing sustainability goals that support healthy environments and communities over time; and the Chapter Challenge, which is awarded to ASHE-affiliated chapters.

The final article in this special section is a profile of Boston Medical Center Health System, winner of ASHE’s 2024 Excellence in Health Care Facility Management Award. This award recognizes the system’s extraordinary efforts in establishing the Brockton (Mass.) Behavioral Health Center, which converted an out-of-service nursing home built in the 1960s into an 80-bed, state-of-the-art behavioral health facility that provides crucial access to inpatient behavioral health care in Brockton and the greater Boston area.

[In addition to this cover story section, the winners of the Vista Awards, presented annually by ASHE to celebrate outstanding achievements in health care construction, renovation and infrastructure, were profiled in the May/June issue of HFM. Those winners were Inova Fairfax Medical Campus in Falls Church, Va., and Hackensack (N.J.) University Medical Center.]

Accomplishments and contributions

ASHE is a professional membership group of the American Hospital Association. More than 12,000 members rely on ASHE as a critical source of professional development, information and advocacy, including representation on key issues that affect their work in the health care physical environment.

ASHE members have a significant impact on the health and safety of patients and the field of health care facilities management. Through ASHE awards and recognition programs, individuals and organizations are recognized for key accomplishments and their contributions to the health care facilities management field.