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The like­ly answer is “no,” says the data. BROAD RANGES IN FACILITY DATA SUGGEST THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS AN AVERAGE HOSPITAL Over 500 Dif­fer­ent Apples In an effort to test the pre­dictabil­i­ty of EVS […]

30 Years, Build­ing the Right Tech­nol­o­gy for EVS With 30 years expe­ri­ence in build­ing the right tech­nol­o­gy – specif­i­cal­ly for EVS – Smart Facil­i­ty Soft­ware works to stay on top of the best soft­ware plat­forms […]

Tips for set­ting a course you can be excit­ed about in the new year Updat­ing your Envi­ron­men­tal Ser­vices Per­for­mance Improve­ment Plan? It’s the right thing to do – to main­tain high lev­els of clean­li­ness, patient […]

By Don­ald Sipp, MBA, RESE, CHESP, CHTI‑2, CMIP, PMP Don­ald Sipp is the senior direc­tor at Ruck-Shock­­ey Asso­ciates Inc. and the own­er of Impact Train­ing Com­pa­ny, bring­ing over 20 years of exec­u­tive lead­er­ship expe­ri­ence across […]

Man­agers are putting their grat­i­tude into words. This year, dur­ing EVS Week 2025, we’re point­ing out the spe­cif­ic ded­i­ca­tion of four Envi­ron­men­tal Ser­vices staff mem­bers at Trin­i­ty Health’s Mount Carmel Health Sys­tem. The great and […]

Reflec­tions on the Amer­i­can Hos­pi­tal Association’s Lead­er­ship Con­fer­ence. The Amer­i­can Hos­pi­tal Association’s Lead­er­ship Con­fer­ence this week was not only a gath­er­ing of the industry’s bright­est minds, but also a plat­form for trans­for­ma­tive ideas in health­care […]

STANDARD THINKING MAY OVERLOOK KEY EVS REALITIES INTRODUCTION: Get­ting the most out of your human resources, as close to 100% pro­duc­tiv­i­ty as pos­si­ble. When it comes to hos­pi­tal Envi­ron­men­tal Ser­vices depart­ments, one of the most […]

AN ESSENTIAL CHECKLIST FOR HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATORS Most hos­pi­tals invest in their own team of envi­ron­men­tal ser­vices (EVS) pro­fes­sion­als to main­tain the high­est stan­dards of clean­li­ness and safe­ty. And, some hos­pi­tals part­ner with build­ing ser­vices con­trac­tors […]

If you’re an EVS direc­tor, you’re like­ly look­ing for bet­ter and faster ways to com­mu­ni­cate with your team. You should know there are three advances in Smart Facility’s EVS soft­ware that are rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing the ease […]

A Site Inven­to­ry: The Advan­tages of Hav­ing Your Actu­al and Unique Facil­i­ty Data Most EVS Direc­tors have expe­ri­enced this phe­nom­e­non: A staffing analy­sis bench­mark­ing report comes back with the poten­tial for sig­nif­i­cant savings—if its rec­om­men­da­tions […]