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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Add data to your exper­tise. As an EVS Direc­tor, you’re an expert on the EVS process. When you also become an expert on your hospital’s EVS data, you become a pow­er­ful resource who knows both […]

Whether you’re refresh­ing a site inven­to­ry, or doing one for the first time, the accu­ra­cy of your data will have long last­ing effects on your department’s suc­cess. In a pre­vi­ous arti­cle, we talked about the […]

Man­ag­ing with­out one is like sail­ing a ship with­out a rud­der. If you are an Envi­ron­men­tal Ser­vices Direc­tor, you know you need a detailed, accu­rate data­base of every clean­able space in your facil­i­ty — includ­ing […]

With HAIs on the rise, it’s even more impor­tant for EVS direc­tors to have vis­i­bil­i­ty through­out the facil­i­ty, and for customers––both inter­nal and external––to have access to the EVS team so they can report any […]

We are so proud of the envi­ron­men­tal ser­vices work­ers who fight on the front­lines of infec­tion every day. This week, we’re cel­e­brat­ing some of the peo­ple who keep their EVS teams run­ning and their hos­pi­tals […]

When it comes to staffing analy­sis, reports based on actu­al data from the unique facility––instead of benchmarking––makes all the dif­fer­ence. Most EVS Direc­tors have expe­ri­enced this phe­nom­e­non: a staffing analy­sis bench­mark­ing report comes back with […]