Insights

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 […]

In an increas­ing­ly dig­i­tal age, it’s tempt­ing to look for a soft­ware that can do every­thing for your facil­i­ty: from billing to ADT to envi­ron­men­tal ser­vices. But a one-size-fits-all approach has lim­its when it comes […]

Intro­duc­ing the Auto­mat­ed Task Assign­ment Deci­sion Engine As a hos­pi­tal leader, you make deci­sions all day, every day that affect the oper­a­tions of your facil­i­ty. Some deci­sions take time and atten­tion to make, while oth­er […]

Inter­op­er­abil­i­ty has become a buzz­word with­in hos­pi­tal facil­i­ties. But what does it mean for EVS Teams? Below, we dis­cuss how inter­op­er­abil­i­ty between soft­ware appli­ca­tions can stream­line bed turnover com­mu­ni­ca­tions between clin­i­cal and EVS teams, and […]

ES Opti­miz­er users have a gold­mine of data about their facil­i­ties at their fin­ger­tips. But, how do you get the most out of that data for your Envi­ron­men­tal Ser­vices Depart­ment? ES Opti­miz­er is a pow­er­ful […]

With over 47 mil­lion con­firmed coro­n­avirus (COVID-19) infec­tions in the Unit­ed States (as of 11–18–21), health­care facil­i­ties have been main­tain­ing pro­ce­dures to man­age the virus among their patient pop­u­la­tion and pro­tect their front­line staff. When […]

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. Since 2020 you’ve been fac­ing COVID-19 head […]