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A healthy efficiency: Hospitals cut costs on their emergency usage
The latest technology at a hospital here has nothing to do with medicine, yet administrators say it will help them deliver better healthcare.
Deborah Heart & Lung Center has completed an almost $2 million upgrade of its heating and cooling systems — a utility-funded project that’s expected to cut the hospital’s power bill by some $200,000 a year.
“That’s real dollars and cents to us,” Deborah executive Joseph Manni said of the savings. “That money now can be used for what’s really important, and that’s patient care.”
Deborah is one of three South Jersey hospital operators to boost energy efficiency through a $79 million program funded by PSE&G, the state’s largest utility. In Camden, Cooper University Hospital is making $3.9 million in improvements. Lourdes Health System earlier this year completed a $1.69 million upgrade at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, Camden, and Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County in Willingboro. (Walsh, Gannett)