Environmental Sustainability

Risk and Crisis Management

To protect the safety of patients and employees, FEMH established the “Risk and Crisis Management Committee” and adopts the risk analysis tool “Hazard Vulnerability Analysis” to conduct various key hazard and risk assessment on disaster, climate change, and the geographic environment near the hospital, according to ISO 31000 and 2018 Risk Management Framework each year. The analysis of FEMH 2019-2021 crisis incident and the evaluation of the external environment and other factors have classified (1) Climate Change, (2) Information Security and (3) High-Risk Infection as the key disclosure items of the report.

Climate Change

01

Information Security

02

High-Risk Infection

03

Climate Change

Global climate change threatens the health of humans while hospitals serve as the sites operating 24 hours a day and are one of the high power-consumption industries. Hospitals also bear the burden to protect public health and need to implement energy saving and carbon reduction in daily operations. FEMH established the Energy Saving and Carbon Reduction Project Team to propose improvement actions for all power consumption systems, in attempt to fulfill corporate social responsibility, save energy and reduce carbon emission for the earth.

Energy and Resource Control Procedures

The team develops the “Energy and Resource Control Procedures” to manage six dimensions, including air conditioning, lighting, water consumption, gasoline consumption, steam, and electronic appliances, with the proposal of intermediate to long-term goals.

Energy and Greenhouse Gas Management

The main energy of consumption for FEMH is electricity outsourced, natural gas and diesel. In 2021, the total power consumed by FEMH was 49,153,600kWh, natural gas consumed was 912,098m³ and diesel consumed was 10,000L. Moreover, electricity accounts for more than 93% of hospital-wide energy consumption. The expansion of Phase II campus construction drove to the increase in energy consumption, and FEMH installed a frequency-variant air conditioning system, heat pump systems, ice storage, and second steam recycling system as well as the power modulating measures for peak/off-peak air conditioning, leading to the drop in energy usage index after expansion (hereinafter referred to as EUI), which lowered from the 346.52kWh/m²/year before expansion to the 253.26 kWh/m² /year after expansion. The carbon emission also lowered from 39,000 tons /year to 30,000 tons/year. FEMH is scheduled to introduce ISO 50001 by March 2022 and shall validate in November to assure the actual implementation of the lasting mechanism of energy management.

Power-Saving Measures

The clinic lobby is installed with LOW-E glass to effectively insulate thermal conductivity and effusion of air conditioning. During the day, the glass can fully introduce light to reduce the use of lighting fixtures in day time. The region without personnel is installed with Infrared sensing lights while the outdoor lamp posts are scheduled through computer control, which is incorporated with LEF lighting to save approximately 323,033 kWh in power consumption each year. The “water-based heat pump” applies the energy conversion and power-saving effect of the heat pump by transferring the chilling system and thermal energy of the computing room to the ice barrel for storage and use by the hospital. A total of 10 heat pumps are available in the hospital, which reduce carbon emission by approximately 7,850,290kg per year. Between 2019 and 2021, FEMH was devoted in various power-saving plans by phasing out old equipment, improving lighting/air conditioners and other items, saving approximately total power consumption by 3,198,033 kWh.

Water Resource Management

The source of water for FEMH is Taipei Feitsui Reservoir, which goes through Bansin Water Treatment Plant-Puqian pressure for water supply. The water quality is relatively clean and stable. The Water Resource Agency of Ministry of Economic Affairs points out that all counties/cities of Taiwan will face with severe water shortage issues by 2030, if the issue of climate change could not be alleviated. FEMH has developed the “Tap Water System and Water Pumping Equipment Management Regulations.” FEMH inspects the total number of tap water consumed weekly while the central control room monitors the water supply and discharge pump operations with the installation of abnormal alert report. Statistics show that the water consumption for 2021 was down 4.03%, compared with previous year. The “recycling and reuse” and “water reduction” strategies are adopted to conduct water resource management, with the establishment of rainwater, RO water, and condensed water recycling system. The waste water amount recycled each year is approximately 17,520m³, which saves about NT$222,760. The waste water recycling and reuse is both environmentally green and energy saving.

Waste Management

The “Regulations Governing Waste Management” were developed in accordance with “Environmental Protection Act,” along with the formulation of waste classification table for the execution of waste classification, reduction and recycling. Due to the advancement in recycling and sterilization technology, some biomedical wastes could be recycled, treated, and reused, in order to reduce the production of biomedical wastes. FEMH produced a variety of wastes in four categories, including: 1 general wastes, biomedical wastes, recycling and reuse of biomedical wastes from the hemodialysis room, and recycling, were all committed to the government accredited professional waste treatment companies, adopting high-temperature incineration treatment, recycling and reuse. FEMH strives to make contribution to the environment by proactively promoting waste reduction:

FEMH advocates for the recycling treatment and reuse of some biomedical wastes, in order to reduce the production of biomedical wastes. The weight of biomedical waste plastics has increased annually, up 9.3% in 2021 compared with previous year. Between 2019-2021, the service capacity of all medical services for FEMH emergency room and hospitalization has grown drastically. After FEMH has addressed the specific measures of waste reduction,the average monthly treatment volume for the recycling of biomedical waste plastics have significantly grown, up by 445KG in 2021, compared with previous year. The average monthly general waste produced in 2021 was down by 5,833 KG in 2021, compared with the previous year, lowering as high as 6.50%.

Information Security

Pursuant to the Cyber Security Management Act and the matters /protection standards stipulated by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, and the ISO 27001 standards, the “Information Security Management Committee” was established as a dedicated organization to promoting information security protection. Additionally, the “Information Management Committee” was established to periodically follow up the matters related to information security. The Security Operation Center (SOC) monitors and handles immediately 24 hours a day with periodical vulnerability scanning, executing the examination of information security.