Eskenazi Health’s main campus has achieved Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) Gold certification, making it among the first and largest new hospital campuses in the United States and first in the state to achieve this recognition.
Nearly two years after the opening of the Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital and Eskenazi Health campus, which includes the one-of-a-kind sky farm on the rooftop of the Outpatient Care Center and The Commonground, an open-air outdoor plaza, Eskenazi Health has built a reputation for its commitment to creating a cleaner, healthier, more energy-efficient environment.
Our focus at Eskenazi Health is on promoting health in all its dimensions. Our priority remains the overall health of our community in the broadest possible terms,” said Dr. Lisa Harris, CEO of Eskenazi Health. “We view this environmentally friendly hospital campus as a statement of our commitment to those we serve now as well as generations to come.”
With the recognition as LEED Gold by the U.S. Green Building Council, a third-party verification that recognizes buildings designed and constructed using strategies aimed at improving performance in energy savings, Eskenazi Health has now surpassed its own original goal for the project. In 2010, the system had announced it was seeking LEED Silver certification. Other criteria that go into LEED certification include, water efficiency, improved indoor air quality, stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts. The decision to reuse an old urban site was also one of the many credits the new facility achieved for its environmental sustainability.
Our sustainability initiatives were a major aspect of the planning and design for the Eskenazi Health campus. We owe a responsibility to our children and our children’s children to protect our environment,” said Matthew Gutwein, president and CEO of Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County, which operates Eskenazi Health. “We remain committed to being an environmental steward so that Indianapolis becomes a more livable and sustainable city.”
The Eskenazi Health campus was recognized for its use of green space, a parking program for low-emitting and fuel-efficient vehicles as well as for those who choose to carpool to work, water-efficient fixtures, the material used during the build, how construction waste was disposed of and many other elements.
The Eskenazi Health campus is on 37 acres at the western end of the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus, between Michigan Street and 10th Street in downtown Indianapolis. The 1.3 million-square-foot facility includes a 315-inpatient bed hospital with 19 operating rooms and four interventional labs, 12 labor and delivery rooms, a 100-bed treatment room emergency department with a 16-bed clinical decision unit, and more than 200 ambulatory clinical exam rooms, one of only two adult Level I trauma centers in the state, and the only adult burn center serving Central and Southern Indiana. The hospital links functionally and operationally to the adjoining Outpatient Care Center, which houses primary and specialty care. The Fifth Third Bank Building, co-developed by Duke Realty/Browning Investments, also links with and supports the Outpatient Care Center and hospital, housing faculty and support functions, as well as related entities serving and supporting Eskenazi Health. Citizens Energy Group owns and operates a central boiler and chiller plant that is on the campus. The campus also includes a 2,700-car parking garage, the second largest parking garage in the state, which also serves as the canvas for the “May/September” public art installation that faces Michigan Street on the southern edge of the campus.
CONTACT: Todd Harper
Phone: 317.880.4785
Pager: 317.310.5972
Email: todd.harper@eskenazihealth.edu