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CleanLink News
This April, Braman Termite and Pest Elimination is proud to celebrate National Pest Management Month, a public observance formally recognized each year by the National Pest Management Association (NPMA) to acknowledge the pest management industry’s commitment to the protection of public health and property from household pest threats.
 
Denny Hammack, Becker’s Infection Control & Clinical Quality
Since 2006, the federal government has recognized Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems as a standardized survey that can help hospitals improve quality of care.
 
 
   
CMS.gov
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for the first time introduced star ratings on Hospital Compare, the agency’s public information website, to make it easier for consumers to choose a hospital and understand the quality of care they deliver.
 
Debra Beaulieu-Volk, FierceHealthcare
It's been seven weeks since my odyssey to heal a badly fractured wrist began, and I'm happy to report that it's just about over. Through this journey, I've made stops to numerous health care settings.
 
 
   
Lisa Rapaport, Reuters
Patients admitted to the hospital on weekends are more likely to get a preventable illness or injury during their stay than people admitted during the week, a large U.S. study finds.
 
Zack Budryk, FierceHealthcare
Patient satisfaction is a key agenda item for hospitals in the post-Affordable Care Act landscape, but the industry may place too much importance on the issue, argues The Atlantic.
 
 
   
Jeff Ferenc, Hospitals & Health Networks
A nurse and design consultant describes how to design patient-friendly and technology-friendly clinical spaces.
 
Dan Hounsell, FacilitiesNet
The thunderstorms that rolled through Southeastern Michigan on Aug. 11, 2014, took a heavy toll on the region. The storms dumped six inches of rain on the area in two hours.
 
 
   
Sea Coast Online
From single-sort recycling to renewable energy credits, York Hospital has been busy working toward turning "sustainability" into savings.
 
CleanLink
When it comes to carpet cleaning, time is money. Cost is based on the amount of area cleaned so the faster a job can be completed, the more profitable it is. This is especially true in commercial carpet cleaning.
 
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Infection Prevention
Brian Krans, HealthlineNews
Hospitals are changing how they clean their rooms as concerns rise about the spread of dangerous drug-resistant bacteria in medical facilities.
 
 
   
Erwin Duizer, PhD, MedicalResearch.com
The effectiveness of alcohol-based hand disinfectant has been shown for bacteria and enveloped viruses but their effectiveness in reducing transmission of non-enveloped viruses, such as norovirus, is less certain.
 
Kassandra Kania, CleanLink
Hospitals are more aware than ever of the need to safeguard patients and employees from infection outbreaks – thanks in part to the Ebola scare and recent Measles cases.
 
 
   
Infection Control Today
A team of French clinicians has diagnosed the first case of rabies in that country since 2003. Only 20 cases of human rabies had been diagnosed in France between 1970 and 2003.
 
Infection Control Today
World Immunization Week, celebrated in the last week of April, aims to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease.
 
Management & Leadership
 
   
Robert Hall, Huffington Post
The growing concern regarding disengaged employees reflects a simple truth: leadership requirements have changed, most leaders have not. Disengaged employees are part of a broader mega-trend: steep relationship decline across home, work, politics, and faith.
 
Peter Stark, Business 2 Community
Leadership is often messy and unpredictable. Leaders today are trying to do more with fewer resources, and in a shorter timeframe.
 
 
   
Maura Thomas, Harvard Business Review
Today, knowledge workers use devices and platforms we wouldn’t have dreamed of 15 years ago, in workspaces we probably didn’t see coming, either (goodbye, private offices; hello, telecommuting). But while work has changed, the training we get about how to manage our time looks pretty much the same as it always has.
 
Ian McAllister, Business Insider via Quora
This answer originally appeared on Quora as an answer to the question, "What are common mistakes that new or inexperienced managers make?" Below are some mistakes I made as a new manager or have seen other new managers make.
 
Educational Resources
 
   
Thursday, April 30
This webinar walks environmental services leaders through the maze of identifying, selecting and applying effective staffing standards for your facility.
 
 
   
Thursday, May 14
Panelists will discuss a plug and play strategy and toolkit to use during outbreaks.
 
AHE News
 
   
Take part in one of AHE's Train the Trainer workshops and return to your facility prepared to train your environmental services staff to become Certified Healthcare Environmental Service Technicians, CHEST... and start making significant contributions to the patient experience of care, the facility, the profession, and the community!
 
 
   
Bob Kehoe, Health Facilitates Management
With all of the challenges and pressures you face in leading your environmental services (ES) team, it sometimes can be difficult to find time to fully recognize and celebrate the group’s progress and achievements.
 
 
   
The AHE Innovation Award presents a tremendous opportunity for companies and organizations to be recognized for innovative and improved products, processes, and technology advancements. The award is open to AHE members and non-members and requires a nominal application fee of $300 at the time of application. Apply now!
 
ACA Updates
Lisa Stiffler, The Seattle Times
Much of the attention on the Affordable Care Act has focused on government-run insurance exchanges, but the law has had big impacts on other parts of health-care delivery.
 
 
   
Sean West, FierceHealthPayer
The percentage of Americans with a favorable view of the Affordable Care Act has surpassed the percentage of those with an unfavorable view for the first time since November 2012, according to the latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll.
 
Roger Smith, The Sacramento Bee
Five years after President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, chalk up a Mission Accomplished for one of the legislation’s three primary goals, access to insurance coverage.
 
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