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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 […]

It’s Envi­ron­men­tal Ser­vices Week 2019! To cel­e­brate, we asked envi­ron­men­tal ser­vices depart­ments: How do you have fun with your EVS depart­ment? What’s the best part of your work­day? How do you take pride in your […]

New Ways to Find EVS Effi­cien­cies In today’s hos­pi­tals, envi­ron­men­tal ser­vices depart­ments need to make data-backed deci­sions. This demand puts them at piv­otal point — to find and adopt tech­no­log­i­cal advance­ments to cap­ture and har­ness […]

ES Optimizer’s Qual­i­ty Man­age­ment mod­ule rev­o­lu­tion­izes rou­tine Qual­i­ty Inspec­tions so you can refine your cur­rent EVS process­es and con­tin­u­al­ly improve your depart­ment.  Once a room is select­ed for sur­vey, your inspec­tion list is auto­mat­i­cal­ly pop­u­lat­ed […]

The HCAHPS sur­vey is designed to make patient per­cep­tion of hos­pi­tal stays into mea­sur­able data. The sur­vey con­tains 32 ques­tions in total about the patient’s hos­pi­tal expe­ri­ence, and 21 core ques­tions about the most crit­i­cal […]

One of the most impor­tant things ES Opti­miz­er can help you with is doc­u­ment­ing Project Work. You can be ready with instant report­ing for Joint Com­mis­sion Com­pli­ance vis­its and any oth­er ques­tion on when work […]

While EVS depart­ments don’t gen­er­ate rev­enue, they are key to the suc­cess of rev­enue-gen­er­at­ing depart­ments. When hos­pi­tals look to decrease over­head, EVS depart­ments— with the sec­ond largest num­ber of peo­ple in the organization—are often first […]

When it’s time to present to the bud­get com­mit­tee, you can jus­ti­fy your EVS staffing lev­els with the most accu­rate and up-to-date data and ensure that you have ade­quate staffing using your ES Opti­miz­er Reports. […]

Hos­pi­tals are infor­ma­tion-based orga­ni­za­tions and data is cru­cial for all depart­ments. This is espe­cial­ly true for Envi­ron­men­tal Ser­vices Departments—who employ the sec­ond largest work­force in the hospital—where data is essen­tial to devel­op­ing the right staffing mod­el.

There are three key rea­sons you need to col­lect and use com­pre­hen­sive EVS data to get the staff you need, while prov­ing your employ­ees’ val­ue to hos­pi­tal admin­is­tra­tion.

ES Opti­miz­er Takes Woman’s Hos­pi­tal — Baton Rouge’s ES Depart­ment from Guess­ing to Know­ing The aver­age hos­pi­tal envi­ron­men­tal ser­vices depart­ment is respon­si­ble for the clean­ing and ster­il­iza­tion of hun­dreds of thou­sands of square feet dai­ly. […]