Jamie Morgan, Health Facilities Management
Is your health system's environmental services department trained to help improve patient satisfaction?

CleanLink
This is part two of a three-part floor equipment roundtable. Are machines that can perform multiple tasks as effective as machines designed for one use? For example, some orbital machines can be used on carpet as well as hard flooring, but are these machines as effective on carpet as an extractor?

Julia Sims, WRAL.com
Shawn Davis doesn't have a degree, and he doesn't practice medicine. But if you visit the fourth floor of the North Carolina Cancer Hospital in Chapel Hill, you'll see – and hear – the effects of the housekeeper's work.

European Cleaning Journal
The concept of hygiene for health is never more relevant or more critical than in the health care sector itself.

Robert Kehoe, Health Facilities Management
The 2015 Sustainable Operations Survey revealed a few simple concepts that can help health facilities become greener.

By Linda Chipperfield, Facility Care
Many health care facilities managers (FMs) are watching the trend toward sustainable cleaning programs closely.

Heather Punke, Becker’s Infection Control & Clinical Quality
In a year when quality and infection control in health care has been top-of-mind for health care executives, as these two elements are increasingly tied to their organizations' bottom lines, it was difficult to choose just five events to highlight in this "year in review" piece.

Jayne O'Donnell, USA TODAY
Infections and other health problems caused by hospitals dropped 17 percent from 2010 to 2014, which prevented 87,000 deaths and saved $20 billion in health care costs, federal health officials said Tuesday.

Infection Control Today
Clinical workstations within hospital intensive care units (ICUs) may get overlooked during routine cleanings and could therefore harbor more dangerous bacteria than regularly cleaned objects in patient areas, according to a pilot study published in the December issue of the American Journal of Infection Control.

Heather Punke, Becker’s Infection Control & Clinical Quality
According to an infographic produced by Man & Machine, pathogens like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus aureus and Acinetobacter baumannii live on most keyboards in medical facilities, including hospitals.

Ekaterina Walter, Forbes
Very few managers are leaders. The difference between the two? Manager is someone who has people reporting to him. A leader is someone who people will follow, even if they don’t report to him. What separates the two is trust and respect of his people.

Emma Seppälä, Kim Cameron, Harvard Business Review
Too many companies bet on having a cut-throat, high-pressure, take-no-prisoners culture to drive their financial success.

Thursday, December 10
In the program participants evaluate the safe use of chemical, with a focus on OSHA, safety profiles, SDS, and staff training.

Cost
AHE Members: Free; Non-Members: $59

Deadline: December 4, 2015
AHE invites those interested in presenting at its EXCHANGE 2016 to submit a proposal for review by the Conference Planning Committee.

If interested in contributing to EXPLORE by authoring a best-practices article, email Heather Williams, EXPLORE editor, for more information. The magazine covers all aspects relevant to health care environmental services professionals.

How environmental services, infection prevention, and health care laundry can enhance linen stewardship and awareness.
Chad Basham, MBA, CHESP, Nellie League, MSN, RN, NE-BC, and Lynn Moreau, BSN, RN, EXPLORE magazine

25 essential considerations for evaluating the health care laundry.
Gregory Gicewicz, EXPLORE magazine