Insights

EVS acknowl­edged for life­sav­ing work dur­ing COVID-19 pan­dem­ic Updat­ed Sep­tem­ber 13, 2021 Envi­ron­men­tal ser­vices depart­ments have been receiv­ing due praise from hos­pi­tals and local news across the coun­try since the advent of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic. […]

Three Charts to Shape the EVS Pro­duc­tiv­i­ty Con­ver­sa­tion Pro­duc­tiv­i­ty is a dai­ly top­ic in hos­pi­tals, both for oper­a­tions and for clin­i­cal staff. The goal is to make the most of your human resources on duty, […]

  We are con­stant­ly updat­ing our soft­ware to expand its func­tion and usabil­i­ty. In the field con­stant­ly with our clients, we see their devel­op­ing needs first­hand and cre­ate solu­tions. We put those into action as […]

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 […]

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 […]