Healthcare Facilities Today
Invariably, cleaning workers focus on cleaning chemicals, equipment, and tools to perform their tasks, but safety equipment often takes a backseat.

Healthcare Facilities Today
Hospital leaders must involve the healthcare facility staff in safety initiatives, according to National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) President and CEO Tejal Gandhi, M.D.

Becker’s Infection Control & Clinical Quality
Healthcare organizations face a suite of evolving threats, many of which are invisible.

CleanLink
Industrial and Institutional (I & I) cleaning products are experiencing external pressure of bringing products that are easily biodegradable and help waste water after cleaning to be more environmentally friendly and less toxic.

Jeff Ferenc, Health Facilities Management
As the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) becomes clearer to health care facility professionals and hospital administrators, they are much more optimistic about the future of health care than just two years ago.

Infection Control Today
The impact of sink location on handwashing compliance after contact with patients with Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is poorly understood.

Nicole Shen, MD, Becker’s Infection Control & Clinical Quality
Antibiotics are a crucial weapon in the fight against a wide variety of diseases.


Drs. David Niesel and Norbert Herzog, Medical Discovery News, Huffington Post
In the past several years, we have heard a lot about infectious microbes threatening the public health of all Americans.

Brent Gleeson, Inc.
Business leaders sometimes make the assumption that if they have succeeded as a leader in one field of battle that they can simply replicate that strategy across all types of teams.

The Muse, Forbes
Even the best leaders get invited to work on projects or teams in which they are not in charge.

Plan your education for 2016. Visit AHE’s brand-new 2016 ENGAGE site to learn more about educational courses, podcasts, webinars, and events.

AHE is gathering input from environmental services departments across the country to identify baseline staffing productivity standards. The results of this data gathering will be used in building staffing models and providing metrics for environmental services directors. You can be a key player in identifying and establishing these important staffing criteria for our industry.

EXCHANGE 2016 will be held on September 25-28, at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, PA. This year, EXCHANGE attendees can look forward to:
• Preconference Workshop
• CHEST Preconference Workshop
• CMIP Preconference Workshop
• Micro Sessions
• Extended Sessions
• Healthcare Marketplace

If interested in contributing to EXPLORE by authoring a best-practices article, email Russell Underwood, EXPLORE editor, for more information. The magazine covers all aspects relevant to health care environmental services professionals.

sponsored by Greater Philadelphia AHE
A founding member of AHE, James Wolfbrandt was always available to mentor and lead his colleagues and would often seek out opportunities to help others learn from his successes and failures. Applicants to this award must follow in Mr. Wolfbrandrs footsteps and be actively involved in mentoring as well as educating and guiding colleagues, peers or staff members in the profession.

Who should Apply/Be Nominated:
• people who are mentors
• people who strive to help others become better
• people who exemplify leadership in environmental services

General Information
• Candidates may be nominated by an AHE member or non-member or may nominate themselves.
• The current AHE Recognition Committee will select award winners based on submitted nominations. The committee may request additional information if needed.
• All submissions become the property of AHE.

Joe Tye, EXPLORE magazine

Brenda Marks, BN, MBA, Explore magazine