Make yourself indispensable and advance your career! Plan your education for 2017. Visit AHE’s brand-new 2017 ENGAGE site to learn more about educational courses, podcasts, webinars, and events. And make sure to check out AHE's new EXPRESS Learning Courses. EXPRESS is a mobile learning platform that offers educational podcasts delivered by environmental services and infection prevention thought leaders. You asked for learning opportunities that require less of a time commitment and we delivered!
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AHE is looking for our best and brightest members to serve as boots on the ground, and the tip of the spear on one of our six committees assigned with the task of guiding AHE in hitting the bullseye this year. The application deadline is January 18.
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AHE has started this initiative to encourage professionals in the field to begin, or continue to refer to the departments and the personnel caring for the healthcare environment as environmental services professionals rather than as housekeepers, janitors and custodians. The staff and management teams responsible for maintaining the clinical environment of care require different skills and competencies from those needed in the commercial cleaning and general maintenance industry and it's time we address this critical distinction. Please help us redefine healthcare environmental services!
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Join us February 27-March 1 at CaroMont Regional Medical Center in Gastonia, North Carolina.
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Jamie Morgan, Health Facilities ManagementAmerican Hospital Association (AHA) President and CEO Rick Pollack has laid out the association’s health care priorities as it enters a new year and prepares for a new White House administration.
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Mickey Crowe, CleanLinkWater consumption and chemical usage is a great topic in this age of sustainability and green cleaning.
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facilities.netFrom cleanliness and accessibility to heavy wear, wayfinding, and promoting a healing environment, hospitals face a unique, stringent set of challenges with flooring. It’s a crucial part of creating a quality care setting.
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Melanie Waddell, McKnight's Long-Term Care NewsHealthcare professionals recognize that long-term care facilities should be a safe haven for healing, not a breeding ground for germs.
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Heather Punke, Becker's Infection Control & Clinical QualityFour new states reported widespread flu activity during the week of Dec. 25, bringing the total number of states with wide geographic spread of the virus to 12, according to the CDC's most recent FluView update.
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Infection Control Today
The Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Health Administration’s campaign to limit healthcare facility-associated infections (HAIs) of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) continues to make significant progress, according to a study published in the January issue of the American Journal of Infection Control.
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Alvaro Liceaga, M.D.; Elvin Mercado, C.S.T.; Mary Narcaroti R.N.MSHA; Lisa Liceaga B.S., Becker's Infection Control & Clinical QualityHand hygiene is of greatest importance because the most common mode of transmission of pathogens is through the hands, especially in settings such as hospitals, operating rooms, medical offices, specialty clinics, therapy centers and outpatient surgery centers.
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Kelly M. Pyrek, Infection Control Today2017 promises to present a number of continuing and new challenges for the infection prevention and healthcare epidemiology community.
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Maureen Metcalf, ForbesIn times of uncertainty, resilience is one of the most important skills for us.
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Sabina Nawaz, ForbesAs a leader, you can’t accurately predict the future, but you can increase the capacity of your organization to deal with an uncertain one.
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By Cindy Nuesslein, RN, MBA, FACHE
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The AHE Seal of Review and Recognition Program is designed to be a comprehensive review and formalized recognition process aimed at assisting healthcare professionals in selecting training and in-service programs that promote quality, safety and the most favorable outcomes for the healthcare environment and its related disciplines.
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We need YOU! 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.
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