NAFA Names Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare Clean Air Award Recipient for 2006

For Immediate Release: 9/22/2006

(Louisville, KY) -- The National Air Filtration Association (NAFA) has announced 21 recipients of the Clean Air Awards for 2006.  Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare (JHSMH) was the only Kentucky recipient.  The Clean Air Award is presented each year to building owners and managers that take steps to significantly improve the quality of their indoor air by increasing the level of air filter efficiency and improving the protocol involving indoor air quality components of their HVAC system in 10 categories.  Recipients must accumulate a total of at least 52 combined points in the categories.

"We are proud of our partnership Koch Filter Corporation who helped to provide leadership to the project which enabled us to receive this award,” said Stephen French, vice president of Facilities Development & Engineer Services at JHSMH.  “We want to assure our patients that our air quality is excellent during the construction and renovation stages of the new Frazier Rehab and Neuroscience Center facility, taking it from five floors to 15.”
“During a recent renovation project involving 11 floors of the Frazier Rehab and Neuroscience Center, we installed MERV 7 prefilters and molecular phase filters to prevent cross-contamination and odor entrainment from the renovation area to the rest of the main hospital,” said Mark Shaughnessy, HVAC Systems Mechanic with JHSMH.  “The final filters were then upgraded to MERV 11 pleats installed downstream of the coils and upstream of the 99.97% HEPA filters.”
Candidates are nominated by both NAFA members and members of the facility management community for the award, and must submit detailed and specific steps taken towards cleaning the indoor environment.  A NAFA Certified Air Filter Specialist qualifies the submissions.  Awards are judged by the NAFA Clean Air Award Committee and each recipient receives a custom designed trophy and recognition for their efforts.

Awards were presented at the NAFA Annual Convention in Boston, MA, September 20-22, 2006.

                                               
An award presentation to JHSMH will take place on Friday, Oct. 27 at 4:30 p.m. at the Rudd Heart & Lung Conference Center, 201 Abraham Flexner Way.   






The other 2006 recipient companies that utilized “best air filtration practices” in their buildings are:

Blanchard Valley Regional Heath Center, Finley, OH
Boston Police Department Headquarters, Boston, MA
Boston Properties, Waltham, MA
City of Phoenix Municipal Buildings, Phoenix, AZ
Crescent Real Estate-Fulbright Tower, Houston, TX
Cushman & Wakefield-AIG American General Center, Houston, TX
Department of Forensic Science-Commonwealth of Virginia, Richmond, VA
Eisai Research Institute, Andover, MA
Falmouth Public Schools, Falmouth, MA
Glendale Arena, Glendale, AZ
Highwood Properties, International Place, III, Memphis, TN
Hines Property Management, Phoenix, AZ
Intertek Caleb Brett-Westport Technology Center, Houston, TX
Progressive Insurance-Austin Call Center, Austin, TX
St. Vincent Hospital/Worcester Medical Center, Worcester, MA
Toyoda Gosei-Texas, San Antonio, TX
Tuft’s University-Jaharis Building, Boston, MA
University of Texas-Southern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX
Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, MA
Williams International, Ogden, UT
 
About NAFA
The National Air Filtration Association (NAFA) is the trade association for heating, ventilating and air conditioning air filter manufacturers and distributors around the world.  NAFA has over 650 members and provides educational programs on the benefits of clean indoor environments through their membership.  NAFA also publishes The NAFA Guide To Air Filtration and the Installation, Operations and Maintenance of Air Filtration Systems.  NAFA accredits individual members through their Certified Air Filter Specialist and NAFA Certified Technician programs, and products through the NAFA Certified Products program.

About JHSMH
Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's HealthCare (JHSMH) in Louisville, Ky., is a regional health care network that includes 70 health care facilities and 1,900 patients beds in Kentucky and southern Indiana.  JHSMH provides a complete array of health care services to this region and beyond, including: hospitals, emergency air ambulance services, outpatient care, nursing home care, occupational health, psychiatric care and rehab medicine.  JHSMH provides home health care to families in 41 Kentucky and southern Indiana counties, occupational health mobile services to 30 Kentucky counties and employs a network of physician practices that provide both primary and specialty medical care.  The organization employs more than 8,100 people. 

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