Insights

One of the biggest ques­tions fac­ing EVS Direc­tors today is: how do you retain your EVS employ­ees? Tak­ing a peo­ple-first approach––taking the time to check in reg­u­lar­ly with your team, encour­age their growth, and rec­og­nize […]

Smart Facility’s QR Code Tech­nol­o­gy keeps every­one con­nect­ed with envi­ron­men­tal services––ensuring that your EVS team has eyes on every cor­ner of the facil­i­ty, no mat­ter where they are in the build­ing.  QR codes can be […]

As we enter the fourth year of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, hos­pi­tals and the broad­er pub­lic are more aware than ever of the impor­tance of envi­ron­men­tal ser­vices (EVS) and infec­tion pre­ven­tion (IP) teams. As we nav­i­gate […]

As 2022 draws to a close, we want­ed to once again cel­e­brate the amaz­ing work of all of the EVS Teams that make up our com­mu­ni­ty. Ear­li­er this year, we reached out to EVS Depart­ments […]

How you man­age facil­i­ty clean­ing data can make or break an EVS Depart­ment. That’s why it’s so impor­tant to find the right EVS soft­ware. As we men­tioned in our recent webi­nar, the Roadmap to Under­stand­ing […]

Meet­ing Envi­ron­men­tal Ser­vices goals requires a plan, and a soft­ware, unique to your facil­i­ty. Smart Facil­i­ty Soft­ware is the orig­i­nal spe­cial­ized soft­ware built for your unique EVS work­flow. As a hos­pi­tal leader, you know bet­ter […]

This EVS Week, we’re rec­og­niz­ing the heroes of Hos­pi­tal Envi­ron­men­tal Ser­vices. We sat down with EVS Team Mem­bers from SFS user Kaiser Per­ma­nente South Bay Med­ical Cen­ter to talk about how they took care of […]

Envi­ron­men­tal ser­vices staff fight on the front­lines of infec­tion every day: while med­ical staff fight infec­tions in the body, EVS techs fight infec­tion in the build­ing. So this EVS week, we are thrilled to cel­e­brate […]

This EVS Week, we’re rec­og­niz­ing the heroes of Hos­pi­tal Envi­ron­men­tal Ser­vices.   We sat down with two House­keep­ing Head Aides from Kaiser Per­ma­nente Valle­jo Med­ical Cen­ter and their man­ag­er to talk about what it was […]

Every year, near­ly 1.7 mil­lion Amer­i­cans con­tract hos­pi­tal-acquired infec­tions, which are trans­mit­ted pri­mar­i­ly via high-touch sur­faces. One of the most com­mon­ly touched sur­faces? Cubi­cle cur­tains. Almost every sin­gle health­care work­er who comes into a patient […]