Insights

Man­ag­ing EVS 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 — […]

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 […]

Stud­ies show that paper­less hos­pi­tals are bet­ter for both patients and staff, mak­ing hos­pi­tals safer, more effi­cient, and more sus­tain­able. But it’s not just patient health records that are going dig­i­tal: envi­ron­men­tal ser­vices can ben­e­fit […]

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 […]