Today's perfect storm of higher costs and lower margins leaves most health facilities with insufficient margin to fund even their most-cost effective energy projects and their most necessary deferred maintenance. However, recent advances in accounting and financial practices provide a way to fund energy conservation, deferred maintenance, and infrastructure projects without drawing upon scarce capital resources. This session explores how combining an aggressive energy conservation program with a structured finance solution can result in lower costs, higher margins, and improved clinical outcomes.

This session will enable attendees to:

• Identify key health facility financial metrics, health facility cost structures, and elements of a health facility energy conservation program.
• Describe methods of financing energy conservation, deferred maintenance, and infrastructure projects including both conventional methods and more complex structured finance methods.
• Name potential benefits of combining energy conservation programs with structured finance solutions.
• List the technical and financial risks associated with energy conservation programs and structured finance solutions and identify the most cost-effective allocation of risk between the parties.