Akanksha Jayanthi, Becker’s Infection Control & Clinical Quality
The goals, duties and responsibilities of infection prevention don't solely reside with infection preventions and clinicians focused on quality initiatives.

Bob Kehoe, Health Facilities Management
If it sometimes feels like your job is getting tougher, you're not alone. As with just about all positions within health care, many environmental services directors find themselves assuming ever-broadening responsibilities.

Heather Punke, Becker’s Infection Control & Clinical Quality
The concept of using ultraviolet light to disinfect isn't necessarily a new one, but it has gained more attention in recent years, thanks to the push for transparency around infection rates and the financial penalties attached to health-care-acquired infections and readmissions.

Tracey Hups, Facility Care
When a patient goes to a hospital for treatment, he or she deserves a safe environment. Facilities must continually evaluate their safety practices to ensure they are doing everything they can to safeguard patients from adverse events such as medical errors, health-care-associated infections and further injuries.

Heather Punke, Becker’s Infection Control & Clinical Quality
Earlier this year, the ECRI Institute placed disinfection robots at the top of its 2015 Top 10 Hospital C-Suite Watch List, which highlights new and emerging technologies. Ultraviolet light robots fall under that category.

Cleanlink News
Transgender issues have dominated headlines in recent weeks, but there is one issue in particular that would be of interest to facilities professionals—which restroom do they use? Officials at the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) are working to answer this question.

Jay Greene, Crain's Detroit Business
St. Joseph Mercy Health System in Ann Arbor has taken advantage of low fuel oil and gas prices the past year and saved more than 20 percent through advanced bulk purchases.

Henry Powderly, Healthcare Finance
Hospitals don't have to be scary places. Actually, many are quite beautiful. A new survey by Soliant Health, in fact, has named the Top 20 Most Beautiful Hospitals of 2015, highlighting a mix of facilities from across the country.

Infection Control Today
This slide show offers a summary of data from the 2014 Leapfrog Hospital Survey, presented by The Leapfrog Group and Castlight Health.

Infection Control Today
Metal alloys containing copper can destroy* human norovirus, according to a paper published online ahead of print on May 15, in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology.

Infection Control Today
Simple handwashing is the best known way to prevent hospital infections, but according to a report released today by nonprofit hospital watchdog The Leapfrog Group, nearly one-quarter (23 percent) of hospitals surveyed have not implemented all the safe practices and policies recommended for proper hand hygiene.

Shannon Barnet, Becker’s Infection Control & Clinical Quality
Researchers conducted a study to determine the effect of transfers of patients between different hospitals on the rate of Clostridium difficile infections in a hospital, the results of which were published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

Healthcare Facilities Today
A recent UK study found that 44 percent of nursing staff washed their uniforms below the recommended temperature of 60˚C, according to an article on the Nursing in Practice website.

Andrew M. Carton, Harvard Business Rev
When leaders communicate a vision of their organization’s future, they tend to emphasize ideals and ideology—the importance of "success," "stewardship," or "sustainability." Leaders are likely to emphasize this type of abstract rhetoric more as businesses become increasingly digital.

Anne Fisher, Fortune
If there’s one thing almost everyone in corporate America can agree on, it’s that traditional once-a-year evaluations are a waste of time.

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!