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Sept. 17-20, 2017 • Rosen Shingle Creek • Orlando, FL

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.

Jaime Morgan, Health Facilities Management
It's no secret that baby boomers are retiring later. According to the Population Reference Bureau, a growing share of Americans are working beyond their 65th birthdays, which is a trend that started about 25 years ago and is largely linked to financial security.

Angie O'Connor, American Laundry News
Lint and fibers in the operating room (OR) can enter the surgical wound, creating an opportunity for surgical site infection (SSI) and other complications.

Jacqueline Belliveau, Rev Cycle Intelligence
Despite a possible Affordable Care Act repeal, healthcare executives still plan to stay the course with value-based purchasing implementation and healthcare cost reduction initiatives, a recent BDC Advisors survey reported.

Ben Walker, CleanLink
In most cleaning situations that require us to kill pathogens, a disinfectant product gets the job done. - See more at: http://www.cleanlink.com/hs/article/Products-That-Effectively-Target-Pathogens--20845#sthash.C9AHkk7t.dpuf

Henry L. Davis, The Buffalo News
At sunrise on a recent morning, several dozen people gathered in an unused unit at Women & Children's Hospital and surveyed the beds, monitors and equipment in five rooms.

Heather Punke, Becker's Infection Control & Clinical Quality
In an attempt to quell the spread of germs, two UCLA Medical Centers instituted so-called handshake-free zones in their neonatal intensive care units and published findings on the effects of the change in the American Journal of Infection Control.

Infection Control Today
We all know that washing our hands can keep us from spreading germs and getting sick; however, a new Rutgers-New Brunswick study found that cool water removes the same amount of harmful bacteria as hot.

Healthcare Facilities Today
A MRSA outbreak in a California hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit has infection control experts are rethinking their strategy to prevent superbug infections, according to an article on the Fierce Healthcare website.

Infection Control Today
Genetic analysis of samples collected as the Zika virus (ZIKV) spread throughout the Americas after its introduction in 2013 or 2014 has shown that the virus circulated undetected for up to a year in some regions before it came to the attention of public health authorities.

Maja Mrsic, Inman
Rosalynn Carter once said that a leader takes people where they want to go and that a great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

Stephanie Pappas, Live Science
If you're looking to get into a management role, you might want to aim to boost your charisma ... just not too much.

By Jim Henry, CHESP, Master T-CHEST

By Carl Solomon Sr., MBA, FAHE, CHESP

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!

CMIP, the Certificate of Mastery in Infection Prevention for Environmental Services Professionals (CMIP) is a robust certificate program which requires online pre-work and an in-person training session, along with an optional post-session capstone project/assessment. This intensive 30-hour certificate program provides Environmental Services professionals with the requisite knowledge to meet the CMS requirements for a "trained" professional in infection prevention and control specific to the clinical environment of care.