Company: UHS
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-027785
Chunk: 36

Company: UNIVERSAL HEALTH SERVICES INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 36
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 Guide which provides details on access to the benefits, resources and support tools available to employees throughout our organization.

In 2024, the UHS Foundation continued to support employees and their families who suffered losses due to natural disasters across the country, including tornados in Arkansas and Tennessee, Hurricane Beryl (in Texas) and Hurricanes Debby, Milton and Helene (in Florida). 

Environmental

We have implemented environmentally sustainable practices and we comply with applicable legal and regulatory environmental standards to protect our patients, visitors, staff and local communities. Our environmental stewardship includes following best practices when managing energy usage, constructing and designing new builds and/or major renovations and protecting the local environment.  

•Smart building technology and automation are used across our enterprise to monitor and inform energy management decisions. Centralized Utility Billing Management System effectively monitors energy usage across our U.S. facilities, signaling significant deviations from normal usage consumption patterns. Automatic fault detection and diagnostics software is implemented in approximately 75% of our acute care hospitals to monitor the efficiencies of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning operations. Most of these facilities also utilize retro-commissioning and monitoring-based commissioning. 

•All of our newly built facilities, or those undergoing major renovation, are required to meet, or exceed, all federal, state and local energy efficient codes, use mechanical-electrical-plumbing systems to optimize energy efficiencies and water conservation and be equipped with 100% emergency back-up generators, with 96 hours of fuel.New construction or major renovation projects costing at least $20 million are required to be assessed for Green Globes® and/or U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certifications. All newly constructed acute care facilities are also expected to achieve an ENERGY STAR® Portfolio Manager Score of 90 or higher. 

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•Our facilities have policies and procedures that are compliant with the applicable laws from the Environmental Protection Agency, local departments of health and other regulators who oversee the responsible disposal of pollution and waste. Our Water Management Program (“WMP”), which is co-managed jointly by a third-party company specializing in water safety, oversees programs for potable and process water (e.g., surgical instrument processing) as well as utility water (e.g., cooling tower, boilers) through active management and hazard control validation. The WPM is designed to ensure safe water throughout our buildings and meets ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 188 (Legionellosis: Risk Management for Building Water Systems). The WPM recently incorporated current ANSI/AAMI ST108: 2023 Water standards