Operations Related to Environmental Hygiene
ES NEWS
Hospitals focusing greater attention on reducing waste streams and using green cleaning products.
INFRASTRUCTURE NEWS
The 2015 Health Facilities Management Sustainable Operations Survey shows that hospitals and health care facilities are making slow progress in green activities.
ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES
Crestwood Medical Center identified four areas of improvement in environmental hygiene and operating room turnover time.
SPECIAL REPORT
Hospitals make fruitful progress toward sustainability as some take great strides and others stick to baby steps.
ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES
Eight steps for keeping spaces clean and free of patient dangers.
AHE PERSPECTIVE
How environmental services leaders can help to guide the future of health care.
INFECTION PREVENTION
Six academic medical centers receive $11 million to discover new facility-related methods to reduce health care-associated infections.
INFECTION CONTROL
Associations team up to battle health care-associated infections and promote International Infection Prevention Week.
NEWS
Also this week: EPA orders company to stop selling ineffective disinfectant, the Joint Commission eliminates rules office-based surgery practices and the FDA issues a Class 1 recall..
INFECTION PREVENTION
Literature review recommends new focus to determine best outcomes for environmental cleaning.