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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!

Kelly Dean, WBKO
Today, The Medical Center Franklin surprised Attendant worker, Valarie Masey with a national award from the Association for Healthcare Environment (AHE) of the American Hospital Association (AHA).

Jim Bistolas, Healthcare Facilities Today
Infection control practices are shaping today’s healthcare environments.

Matt Poe, American Laundry News
More laundries being proactive to curb dangerous situation.

Peter Teska and Jim Gauthier, Healthcare Facilities Today
It’s no surprise that patient environments of care need to be hygienic.

Infection Control Today
It lurks in hospitals and nursing homes, surviving the cleaning crew’s attempt to kill it by holing up in a tiny hard shell.

Infection Control Today
Researchers have discovered an inherited genetic variation that may help identify patients at elevated risk for severe, potentially fatal influenza infections.

Healio
In an experiment, multiple strains of Candida auris survived for 7 days on moist or dry surfaces, supporting a hypothesis about one of the ways the emerging and often drug-resistant fungal pathogen can spread, researchers said.

Marty Fukuda, Entrepreneur
The best leadership teams contain a healthy dose of in-house talent, where leaders have developed institutional knowledge that only comes from rising up within the company.

Ross Tsakas, Forbes
"Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality," according to a famous quote by Abraham Lincoln.

By Randy Barnes

By Ed Barr, 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 that provides the requisite knowledge for a "trained" professional in infection prevention and control specific to the clinical environment of care.