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REPRINTED FROM SEPTEMBER 2012 VOL. 12, NO. 9 A VENDOME PUBLICATION<br />
F E AT U R E<br />
AFTER THE GOLD<br />
Two years later, Rockingham Memorial Hospital offers insights into the payoff<br />
of going green at the LEED Gold-certified level<br />
BY DEBRA THOMPSON<br />
When Rockingham Memorial Hospital (RMH) officials com-<br />
mitted to building their new facility in Harrisonburg, Virginia,<br />
as a “green” facility, they were largely forging new territory.<br />
At the time, no more than a handful of hospitals around the<br />
country had received certification from the nonprofit U.S. Green<br />
Building Council as LEED-certified facilities. Even today, fewer<br />
than 50 acute care hospitals (or portions thereof) have achieved<br />
LEED Gold or Platinum status, and Rockingham is one of the<br />
few possessing Gold.<b<a title="HCD31ET_LR page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f811b76f?page=1"> REPRINTED FROM SEPTEMBER 2012 VOL. 12, NO. 9 </a>
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