State Sen. Gene Yaw, R-Loyalsock Township, and state Rep. Lynda Culver, R-Rockefeller Township, recently toured Evangelical Community Hospital, according to a news release.

While on tour, hospital staff discussed the new 750-ton magnetic bearing chiller, a higher quality, more efficient chiller that will increase capacity, provide redundancy and provide chilled water to the hospital under emergency power.

The tour comes after both Yaw and Culver supported state funding through two separate grants totaling $900,000 for Evangelical’s effort to increase its energy efficiency, the news release said.

Both grants, which are products of the Office of the Budget’s Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program, are in the process of being fulfilled to fully receive the promised funds.

The grant expands the Hospital’s $1.9 million Efficiency Initiative, a project to reduce the campus’s energy consumption by more than 394,000 kWh annually.