Zack Budryk, FierceHealthcare
A new site that aims to become the hospital equivalent of Yelp premiered this week, TIME reports. Unlike its less specialized counterpart, the new site, analyticsMD, bases ratings not on reviews by the public, but on quality data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Alison Bryant, Greenhealth Magazine
HPRC and Practice Greenhealth present key results from a survey on plastic packaging and products recycling in U.S. hospitals.

Ronnie Garrett, CleanLink
This is the first of a four-part article on how to identify infectious/medical waste and recommendations for proper disposal.

Healthcare Facilities Today
Reducing hospital infection rates will require a range of new practices and procedures, including procedures designed to minimize infections transmitted through health care workers’ hands, according to a white paper on the Essex Electronics website.

Luc Lenaerts, The Guardian
Hospitals are increasingly recognizing the role of sustainability in nurturing the planet and in helping to provide an unrivalled standard of care.

NRG Business, Health Facilities Management
After your initial foray into benchmarking energy performance, you notice that most of your health care facilities fall below the 50th percentile compared to similar buildings nationwide and some are even in the bottom quartile. Now what?

Justin Skeesuck, Medical Construction and Design
Life has become increasingly difficult for me over the past 23 years, as different parts of my body have stopped functioning. I live with a progressive neuromuscular disease, which has forced me to use braces, a cane, a manual wheelchair and, most recently, a power chair for mobility.

Shannon Barnet, Becker’s Hospital Review
Making hospitals more environmentally friendly may have once seemed like a trendy notion or expensive luxury that would fall by the wayside, but that's not been the case.

Leslie Small, FierceHealthcare
Long before superbug outbreaks tied to a specialized medical scope sickened and killed patients across the country, infection control has been a major priority for hospitals.

Brian Currie, MD, MPH, Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News
The past 20 years have seen a dramatic change in the epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) in the United States and on a global basis.

Zack Budryk, FierceHealthcare
The World Health Organization (WHO) has unveiled a new strategy to tackle the global issue of antibiotic resistance.

Becker’s Hospital Review
Roughly 1.7 million hospital-associated infections occur annually in acute-care hospitals, which result in tens of thousands of patient deaths and cost billions of dollars to the health care system.

Heather McLarney, Infection Control Today
In an age when advanced technology rules every aspect of our lives, how we monitor hand hygiene compliance should not be left behind.

Chris Fussell, Harvard Business Review
When Fredrick Winslow Taylor designed the world’s first modern assembly line and forever changed industry, persuasion was the last thing on his mind. Taylor believed assembly line workers simply needed clear direction on how to execute prescribed tasks.

Rock Jensen, Health Facilities Management
It's not unusual for environmental services managers to oversee additional services and functions that supplement the core task of cleaning their facilities.

Megan Headley, Facility Care
The essay nominating Robert Meyer, senior associate with Cannon Design, for the 2014 George Pressler Under 40 Award, one of the Symposium Distinction Awards presented by the Healthcare Facilities Symposium and Expo, noted Meyer’s leadership skills, collaborative spirt and vision to make a meaningful difference on his project teams. In their comments, the judges agreed that Meyer represented a "good example of project leadership at a young age."

Albrecht Enders, Forbes Leadership Forum
Creating value is not of much use to a business unless the business can capture a significant part of that value as profit. The same is true for you as an individual. To thrive in your career, you must attend to both sides of the value ledger, just as if you were a business.

New Technologies for Surface Cleaning and Disinfection - UV Light
Thursday, June 18
The use of ultraviolet (UV) light technology is rapidly becoming one of the most effective adjunct cleaning technologies in the fight against health care associated infections. Scientists and engineers are continuing to develop this technology as a means to combat pathogens such as MRSA, Ebola, and C-diff in health care facilities. This webinar will explore:

1. How UV light technology is being used as a protocol for surface decontamination;
2. Use guidelines that are currently being developed; and
3. How environmental services leaders can begin to build a business case for the technology.

New this year includes a Certified Healthcare Environmental Services Technician Workshop, Express Labs, and exciting pre-conference events. Open registration is available until July 31, 2015.

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!