Another prominent Arizona institution has chosen to install energy-efficient, sustainable LED lighting. In 2008, The Phoenix Children’s Hospital began a $588 million expansion to the facility, which includes an 11-story tower for the young patients, along with the hospital’s six centers of excellence. Another part of the expansion is installing LED lighting to the 770,000 square-foot hospital. Hubbell Lighting will be replacing old fluorescent lighting throughout the facility, including recessed downlights, LED exit signs, and LED outdoor garage lighting. Also, thanks to exterior LED lighting, people will be able to see the hospital from 25 miles away in any direction. As Arizona’s only children’s hospital, and one of the 10 largest children’s hospitals in the United States, the people behind the expansion plan were sure to keep their youthful patients in mind. In the atrium, LED lights were installed on the floor so children could watch the floor change colors as they jumped from panel to panel.

LED lighting is a safer and energy-efficient alternative to traditional lighting fixtures in hospitals. Hospitals are similar to parking structures in the way that both of their lights burn 24 hours every day, so why not install the most energy efficient lighting possible? Hospitals also won’t have to worry about their lighting breaking and having a mercury contamination in the hospital because LED lighting does not contain mercury. The LED’s bright, white light is perfect for illuminating operating rooms and care units so doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals can see what they are doing.

Hawai’i Pacific Health has retrofitted the lighting in its four non-profit hospitals and 44 outpatient clinics and service sites around Hawai’i. HPC will be saving $10,000-$12,000 each month from the LED lighting installed in one of its parking structures. Combined with the lighting retrofitted in hallways, waiting areas, cafeterias, and offices, the HPC will be saving $1.2 million and seeing a return on their investment in 15 months. The American Hospital Lighting Company, LLC illustrates an example on their website of savings hospitals can take part in if they switch to LED lighting. A hospital with 500 two-lamp 40-watt four-foot fixtures and 500 four-lamp 40-watt fixtures uses 8,000,000 kilowatt-hours over five years. If the hospital replaced their lighting with T8 LEDs, they would only consume 2,000,000 kilowatt-hours over five years and reduce energy and maintenance costs by $628,847.