Michelle Faust, WXXI News
The click, click, click of a hospital privacy curtain echoes through the room as Jeanna Hibbert pulls it down to be laundered.

Craig Sailor, The News Tribune
A light saber-wielding robot with a passing resemblance to R2-D2 is fighting deadly pathogens at St. Joseph Medical Center.

Kristie Garcia, Las Cruces Sun-News
A laboratory in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at New Mexico State University is home to ongoing research on bed bugs and their resistance to certain insecticides.

Mike Elswick, Pittsburgh Morning Sun
It was all done with an eye on saving lives, caring for disaster victims and creating a coordinated network of emergency workers should a real need arise in a disaster situation.

Shannon Barnet, Becker's Infection Control & Clinical Quality
The emergence of bacterial resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics poses a serious challenge to the treatment of various infections, particularly so if bacteria are spreading through the air in hospitals, according to a study in the American Journal of Infection Control.

Infection Control Today
Rice University students and their mentors have created a sterilization station for surgical instruments that can help minimize risk of infections to patients anywhere in the world.

Stephanie Pappas, Live Science
Ah, spring — time to get out of the house and be on the go.

Jim Burger, Outpatient Surgery
These are most likely to saddle you with a CMS citation.

Dan Schawbel, Forbes
I spoke to Bob Burg, an international speaker, bestselling author and sales genius, about his idea of a go-giver leader, the difference between taking leadership and giving it, how leadership has changed since he was starting to grow his career, the criteria for hiring a successful leader, and his best advice to future leaders.

Benjamin Hardy, Observer
What does the environment around you look like?

AHE is gathering input from environmental services departments across the country to identify baseline staffing productivity standards. The results of this data gathering will be used in building staffing models and providing metrics for environmental services directors. You can be a key player in identifying and establishing these important staffing criteria for our industry.

Plan your education for 2016. Visit AHE’s brand-new 2016 ENGAGE site to learn more about educational courses, podcasts, webinars, and events.

This new and intensive 20-hour certificate program will provide Environmental Services leaders and professionals with the requisite knowledge to meet the CMS requirements for a "trained" professional in infection prevention and control specific to the clinical environment of care.

EXCHANGE 2016 will be held on September 25-28, at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, PA. This year, EXCHANGE attendees can look forward to:
Infection Prevention Certificate of Mastery Preconference Program for Environmental Services Leaders Preconference Workshop
CHEST Preconference Workshop
Micro Sessions
Healthcare Marketplace

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

Started in 1987, the Phoenix Award is the highest honor bestowed upon an AHE member. The Phoenix Award recognizes a professional who has made an unselfish, lasting impact as well as outstanding contributions to the growth and professionalism of AHE, the membership, and to the professionalism AHE and environmental services.
Applications Due June 17, 2016.

Joe Tye, EXPLORE magazine

Brenda Marks, BN, MBA, Explore magazine