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The AHE awards and recognition program acknowledges and elevates professionals who have demonstrated the highest level of excellence and leadership. Award recipients are those who work towards advocating and educating themselves on best practices and standards, developing new leaders within a hospital or healthcare facility, and promoting the environmental services profession.

Applications are due June 9, 2017.
 
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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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will host a May 23 webinar for hospital epidemiologists on resource management and priority setting during infectious disease outbreaks. Topics will include identifying stakeholders who should be involved in epidemic preparedness; recognizing areas of limited resources and anticipating needs in times of crisis; and establishing decision-making frameworks when faced with limited resources.
 
 
   
Eric Frederick, American Laundry News
Longtime columnist looks at pros, cons of room hamper stands in healthcare.
 
 
   
Heather Punke, Becker's Infection Control & Clinical Quality
New research in the Journal of Health Environments Research and Design reveals patients care most about privacy, accessibility and comfort when it comes to hospital rooms.
 
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The World Health Organization is investigating an Ebola outbreak in a remote northern area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the eighth in the African nation since the virus was discovered there in 1976.
 
 
   
Deva Rea, Health Facilities Management
Norovirus is known to cause gastroenteritis outbreaks worldwide.
 
Karen Weintraub, TODAYonline
The short answer is no one knows, because no one has studied whether hand sanitisers have cut down on the number of infectious diseases among the public at large.
 
 
   
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Gonzalo Bearman, MD, MPH, professor of medicine, and hospital epidemiologist, Department of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Virginia Commonwealth University, discusses a cost-effective way to control Clostridium difficile in the hospital setting.
 
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Education Resource
Make yourself indispensable and advance your career! Plan your education for 2017. Visit AHE’s 2017 ENGAGE site to learn more about educational courses, podcasts, webinars, and events. And make sure to check out AHE's 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!
 
To acknowledge the ongoing and outstanding sustainability efforts of healthcare facilities - and environmental service departments in particular - the AHE presents the Environmental Sustainability Certificate Program. This program not only provides guidance on efficient, effective and value-added environmentally sustainable healthcare operations, but also provides it in such a way that is achievable within all budgets.
 
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