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Environmental Services Resources
At Smart Facility Software, we’re always examining ways to make it easier for facilities to effectively manage environmental services. These articles are designed to help directors communicate management concepts unique to EVS with hospital administration, fostering a greater understanding and more productive relationship.

Three Ways Harnessing ES Data Justifies Your Staffing and Supports Your Decisions
April 4, 2019Hospitals 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.
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EVS Software Case Study: Woman’s Hospital — Baton Rouge
December 7, 2018ES 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. […]
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Five Software Updates: Do More in ES Optimizer Mobile
September 23, 2018We are always working to make the software easier and faster for you to use. Here is the latest round of additions bringing us closer to our goal of making the software effortless. 1 New […]
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Why an Admission, Discharge & Transfer System CANNOT Replace Environmental Services Software
August 13, 2018The Admission, Discharge, and Transfer (ADT) software is the backbone IT system in the hospital. It manages the most important activity: admitting and discharging patients and getting paid for the services. A hospital does much […]
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Customers Send Instant Service Requests – Now via Text!
August 7, 2018In 2017, Smart Facility Software introduced Service Optimizer, an add-on to ES Optimizer that makes the entire ES Staff mobile – Technicians as well as Managers. Technicians receive their daily assignments on a mobile device […]
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EVS Software Case Study: OhioHealth
July 23, 2018OhioHealth System Creates Environmental Services Efficiencies with ES Optimizer OhioHealth’s daunting facility metrics required an Environmental Services Software solution. ES MANAGERS HAVE MORE TIME FOR QUALITY AND TRAINING Long considered the cleanest facilities in our […]
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HCAHPS: Just the Facts
July 14, 2018What is the HCAHPS survey? The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS, pronounced h‑caps) survey is a national, standardized, and publicly reported survey completed by a random sample of adult patients between […]
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Smart Facility Software at AHE EXCHANGE 2017
August 18, 2017Smart Facility Software will be at the 2017 EXCHANGE AHE Conference & Solution Center in Orlando, Florida from September 17–20. Come see us at booth 813, take part in a hands-on demonstration of our software, and […]
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Try Our Software Today!
May 28, 2017No Experience with our Software? No Worries, We Can Train You… We know the ins and outs of our software, and we will communicate in a language you will understand. Our software support specialists provide individualized […]
Read MoreHow Our Tune-Up Services Help You
May 11, 2017Our expertise is leveraged to build out all the ES modules. We all know that busy schedules place demands on the Environmental Services management team that doesn’t necessarily allow time for setting up their program […]
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