Beth Burmahl and Suzanna Hoppszallern, Health Facilities Management
Despite the slowly recovering economy and sea of health care policy changes implemented in recent years, salaries continue to rise for Health Facilities Management (HFM) readers—some modestly and others by more substantial margins.

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

Marie Thibault, Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry
The focus on preventing hospital-acquired infections has led to another problem: surfaces that are wearing out from repeated cleaning. One company has created a new plastic material that can stand up to harsh disinfectants.

Business Wire
Kenall Manufacturing today introduced Indigo-Clean™, a light fixture that uses continuous environmental disinfection technology to continuously kill harmful bacteria linked to hospital acquired infections (HAIs). The technology behind Indigo-Clean™ inactivates a wide range of micro-organisms that are known causes of HAIs, including MRSA, C. difficile, and VRE.

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Lisa Reisman, MetalMiner
A couple of weeks ago we identified a new metal war ready to be waged against hospital-acquired infections, aka health-care-associated infections (HAIs). And not surprisingly, only a few types of infections make up the majority of the problem, with the cost pegged at anywhere from $28 billion to $88 billion annually.

Emily Mongan, McKnight’s
Nursing homes will face more scrutiny based on a new key hazard list from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Jordan Fox, Pest Control Technology
PCOs and dogs have joined forces in recent years in successful business ventures aimed at detecting nuisance pests including bed bugs, geese, rodents, and termites.

Jim Burger, Outpatient Surgery Magazine
Infection preventionists are likely spending more time reporting on infections than they are on preventing them, says a case study presented at the recent Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) conference.

Infectious Disease Special Edition
Rhode Island Hospital has decreased its incidence of hospital-associated Clostridium difficile infections by 70 percent and reduced annual related mortality in patients with this infection by 64 percent, by successive implementation of five rigorous interventions.

Joanne Finnegan, Fierce Healthcare
The rates of C. difficile were 15 percent higher in hospitals that use reusable sharps containers than in hospitals that use single-use disposable containers, according to a new study presented this weekend at the 42nd annual conference of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.

Heather Punke, Becker’s Infection Control & Clinical Quality
It has been a busy start to 2015 for infection control and prevention professionals and patient safety experts, with several big stories dominating the news cycle so far this year.

Heather Punke, Becker’s Infection Control & Clinical Quality
Two posters presented at the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology Annual Conference demonstrated successful reduction of health-care-associated infections at two facilities with the use of Xenex's ultraviolet light room disinfection system.

Max Green, Becker’s Infection Control & Clinical Quality
Despite the national attention, need and financial incentives for preventing health-care-associated infections, a new study published in the American Journal of Infection Control concluded there are few apps on the market geared towards supporting HAI prevention, and the functionality of those that are available is very narrow and primarily limited to providing information.

Allison McNeely, Bloomberg
BlackBerry Ltd. may design a bacteria-free smartphone as it bids to become the secure mobile choice for the health-care industry, Chief Executive Officer John Chen said.

Glenn Llopis, Forbes
Most leaders shouldn’t be in a position to lead. At a time when innovation and initiative are at a premium, we need a new enlightened form of leadership that sees opportunities others don’t—can do what others won’t—and will keep pushing when prudence says quit.

Peter Economy, TIME
Many leaders are competent, but few qualify as remarkable. If you want to join the ranks of the best of the best, make sure you embody all these qualities all the time. It isn’t easy, but the rewards can be truly phenomenal.

Chris Groscurth, Gallup
When it comes to managing performance, managers have their work cut out for them. Few employees feel their manager excels at even the most basic performance management tasks.

July 6–August 24, 2015
The Essentials of Infection Prevention and Environmental Hygiene course is specifically designed to help non-clinical workers gain knowledge in epidemiology concepts, effective infection prevention and control methods, and recommended cleaning and quality monitoring practices.

Continuing Professional Education Credits: At the end of this course you will receive ten (10) continuing professional education (CPE) credits towards your CHESP renewal.

Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: AHE Members Free; Non-Members $259

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!