Infection Control Today
Sirane has joined forces with MTP Innovations to market and further develop DiffX – a simple-to-use yet effective cleaning and disinfection solution which not only delivers infection prevention, but can also contribute to significant financial savings.

Jennifer DuBose and Ross Westlake, Healthcare Design magazine
U.S. health care systems are moving away from episodic care delivered in silos to coordinated, team-based care that improves population health.

Bobby Floyd, Facility Care
If your housekeeping team is motivated only by a paycheck, they most likely will not be inspired to complete much more than the minimum status quo.

Kristin D. Zeit, Healthcare Design magazine
The May 2015 issue of Healthcare Design offers a lot in terms of lessons learned, on how the past informs the future of health care systems and inspires physical buildings that will serve their patients, staff, and communities better than it ever could before.

Amy Eagle, Health Facilities Management
Ten to 20 years ago, health systems generally considered innovation something outside entities would bring to an organization, says Joseph Jankowski, senior advisor to the chief innovation officer, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit. Today, "innovation has to be a core principle of the health care institution," he says.

Alexander Pieri, ConstructionWeekOnline.com
According to a recent survey produced by Informa, patient care and sustainability practices were listed a lead priority in MENA hospital design and construction.

Heather Punke, Becker’s Hospital Review
Many health care provider organizations (64 percent) require employees to clean some uniforms in their home, but 45 percent of employees in those organizations receive no training on how to do so properly, according to research from TRSA.

Geraldine Chua, Architecture & Design
Flooring contributes to the design of health care facilities in a multitude of ways, contributing aesthetically to the overall look and feel of a facility, providing comfort for patients and staff, and working as a way-finding tool to designate areas.

Pacific Standard magazine
Global climate change is a major and unprecedented public health threat. Unlike infectious pandemics such as last year’s Ebola outbreak, which has killed more than 10,600 people in West Africa, climate change ignores HAZMAT suits and geographic borders.

Robert Lee Hotz, The Wall Street Journal
In a new approach to reducing the scourge of hospital-acquired infections, a team of scientists has been testing thousands of microbe samples from a Chicago hospital to learn how a medical building might make patients sicker.

University of Michigan Health System
Nearly half of American hospitals aren’t taking key steps to prevent a kind of gut infection that kills nearly 30,000 people annually and sickens hundreds of thousands more – despite strong evidence that such steps work, according to a new study.

Shannon Barnet, Becker’s Infection Control & Clinical Quality
Health care workers under direct observation perform hand hygiene events nearly three times more often every hour than those not under observation, according to a study published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.

Leslie Small, FierceHealthcare
As controversy continues to swirl around superbug outbreaks in U.S. hospitals, a new study sounds the alarm that shortages of key antibiotics could make drug-resistant bacteria an even bigger threat to patients.

Infection Control Today
Following last week's Clean 2015 show, the Healthcare Laundry Accreditation Council (HLAC) is reporting increased interest in the importance of health care laundry accreditation and standards as part of a hospital's infection prevention strategy.

Dan Beckham, H&HN Daily
The first obligation of a leader is, of course, to lead. But leading always begs a question — toward where? The quality of leadership ultimately must be judged by the degree to which followers arrive at an intended place that's worth going to.

Tamara Rosin, Becker’s Hospital Review
Executives and managers serve in complex roles. They must exhibit resiliency and determination in their mission to guide their organization toward success, while at the same time be compassionate mentors to their employees and team players to their colleagues.

Rob Asghar, Forbes
Do you want to be happy, or would you prefer to be a leader? Don’t decide too quickly. And if you are already a leader, do you know if you’ll able to do the one thing that could allow you to be content when it’s all over?

Tamara Rosin, Becker’s Hospital Review
By nature, humans have a propensity to keep busy, even when it is counterproductive. Sitting idle is uncomfortable, especially in a time crunch, so the tendency is to keep moving and working, though this often does not result in better performance.

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.

Lock in the low rate by registering for EXCHANGE 2015 on or before April 30. This year’s EXCHANGE will be hosted at the beautiful Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas. Register today!

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!

Steve Benen, MSNBC
When the Affordable Care Act’s Republican critics were making all kinds of dire predictions about the inevitable "failures" of "Obamacare," one of the charges was that American consumers will end up hating the coverage they receive through the reform law.

Dan Heyman, Public News Service
After years of general disapproval, more people now say they like the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, than dislike it.