Midland Memorial Hospital upgrades facility, now named recipient of 2024 Energy to Care Award

MIDLAND, Texas (KMID/KPEJ)- The Midland Memorial Hospital was announced as a recipient of the 2024 Energy To Care Award by the American Society for Health Care Engineering after MMH added upgrades to its facility.

The Vice President of Facility Services for MMH, Abraham Bejil, said that the upgrading process began in 2020. “We decided to do is make major infrastructure upgrades to our facility, both at our main campus and our F. Marie Hall campus,” said Bejil.

According to Bejil, the update includes a new boiler, updating lights, and an automation system that will supposedly lower the Hospital’s electrical bills. “We have sensors in rooms. So that when a room’s not being occupied, the flow of the light shuts off, so we’re not utilizing any type of utilities while it’s not being occupied.”

MMH also added a negative-pressure system in every room on the hospital’s ninth floor. Bejil said that when patients are in these rooms isolated, the negative pressure system will help prevent the air they are breathing spread to staff areas.

Bejil said that the negative-pressure system makes the air so that it is “being kept isolated, then filtered, and expelled throughout the facility.”

Midland Memorial Hospital stated that it is one of the 102 facilities to receive the award, which focuses on sustainability.

The American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE) is the largest association that works to optimize health care built environments and according to the ASHE organization website, the Energy to Care Award is given to facilities that accomplish several goals that improve and support healthy environments.

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