STUDYING AND PROVIDING ENERGY CONSUMPTION MODEL PROPORTIONAL TO CHARACTERISTICS OF SANANDAJ TOHID HOSPITAL, RELATED TO KURDISTAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES1

Hospitals are the most expensive and most widely used public and service organizations that have received little attention in the field of energy consumption and this is while the most controllable costs in hospital are these types of costs. The aim of this study is to determine the energy consumption management model appropriate for Sanandaj Tohid hospital with seven-year process 2007-2013. This study is applied and sectional- descriptive research. For this study, data related to energy consumption is obtained from water, electricity and gas bills and data related to number of beds, number of patients, Inpatient Bed Occupancy Rate and hospital infrastructure area is obtained from statistics of Sanandaj Tohid Hospital were collected at each study years and then energy consumption was determined annually and based on inpatient bed day, bed occupancy day, infrastructure square meters and number of patients who refer hospital and it was analyzed using statistical software Minitab 17 and using statistical analysis and correlation coefficient. Mean water consumption was 1.15 and electricity consumption was 5.23 to 8.27 times the global standard consumption and mean gas consumption per bed day was 10.4 m3. There was positive correlation between some of variables related to bed and electricity, water and gas consumption, but there was not positive correlation between variables related to hospital services and energy consumption. According to study results, using methods such as corrective measures and completing facilities, establishing Energy Committee, appointing posts and employing a special expert for energy, using innovative proposals related to issue, training and cultural building of employees and hospital officials seem necessary and therefore, using building energy management modeling systems is in line with services provided to patients.

Consumption Standards, Energy Consumption Management Modeling, Kurdistan