Insights

As an EVS Direc­tor, you are like­ly tasked with devel­op­ing per­for­mance improve­ment plans for your depart­ment on an annu­al basis. An ini­tia­tive could be decreas­ing the amount of reg­u­lar waste in haz­ardous waste con­tain­ers. Or, […]

Using tra­di­tion­al paper check­lists to assign dai­ly assign­ments and track­ing their com­ple­tion, EVS man­agers have to con­tend with a major blind spot — the team is spread out over a large facil­i­ty and paper check­lists […]

We are con­stant­ly updat­ing our soft­ware to fit our users’ needs.  We are in the field with you, tak­ing your requests. We put those into action as often as we can, some­times overnight, to make […]

As an Envi­ron­men­tal Ser­vices Pro­fes­sion­al, you are the front line in Infec­tion Pre­ven­tion in hos­pi­tal envi­ron­ments. You know how to pre­pare for and man­age virus­es in your facil­i­ty. Late­ly, you’ve like­ly been in extend­ed meet­ings […]

With 4,226 con­firmed coro­n­avirus (COVID-19) infec­tions in the Unit­ed States (as of 3–17–20), health­care facil­i­ties have been putting pro­ce­dures in place to man­age the virus should it dark­en their doorstep. When a dan­ger­ous out­break occurs, […]

In the envi­ron­men­tal ser­vices indus­try, it is not uncom­mon for a staffing analy­sis bench­mark­ing report to come back with a poten­tial for sig­nif­i­cant sav­ings if it can be suc­cess­ful­ly imple­ment­ed. At the same time, it’s […]

Respond faster to EVS ser­vice requests sub­mit­ted by any customer’s smart­phone. Any cus­tomer can sub­mit an instant ser­vice request by sim­ply scan­ning a QR Code or tex­ting a num­ber you post in a high traf­fic […]

In our pre­vi­ous arti­cle, HCAHPS and the Envi­ron­men­tal Ser­vices Depart­ment, we out­lined which ques­tions on the HCAHPS sur­vey are most rel­e­vant to envi­ron­men­tal ser­vice tech­ni­cians. Those ques­tions are: Ques­tion 8: Dur­ing this hos­pi­tal stay, how […]

An easy way to pri­or­i­tize crit­i­cal EVS tasks and define expec­ta­tions When you’re lim­it­ed on envi­ron­men­tal ser­vices employ­ees because of vacan­cies, unplanned absences, dai­ly call-offs, workman’s comp, FMLA absences, etc., essen­tial tasks can fall between […]

How does the Employ­ee Train­ing Mod­ule work? ES Optimizer’s Employ­ee Train­ing Mod­ule has over 30 pre­pop­u­lat­ed train­ing mod­ules. These are pre-set train­ing class­es that can be cus­tomized to your facility’s needs. Using the Employ­ee Train­ing […]