Search Results
The default setting for search results displays All Content. If you prefer to see recent content only, please adjust the date filter.
Filter your results:
Types
Topics
121 Results Found
What are Healthcare Restrooms Telling Us?
Magazine & Journal Articles
When health care organizations recognize that it takes a combination of approaches to keep their restrooms clean, they can then build upon an effective strategy to maintain restrooms at a service level that not only meets the expectations of users but also helps to protect their health.
We ARE Environmental Services
Magazine & Journal Articles
Environmental services in hospitals and health care facilities fight to control the spread of pathogens and improve patient outcomes.
Navigating the Economic Storm: A Prescriptive Approach for Healthcare Supply Chain Professionals
Magazine & Journal Articles
In this page, AHRMM recommends these 3 proactive activities in the event of economic downturn.
AHE Voices, Winter 2013
Magazine & Journal Articles
EXPLORE spoke with Candace Thompson, CHESP, and Lea Beach, CHESP, about infection control, their department’s working relationships with Infection Preventionists (IPs), the latest challenges, how they empower their staff, and best practices for hand-washing and PPE compliance.
AHE Voices, Summer 2014
Magazine & Journal Articles
EXPLORE spoke with Brian Tallmadge, CHESP, assistant chief, Environmental Management Services, at Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center in Charleston, S.C., about the latest technologies available for EVS professionals.
The Future of EVS
Magazine & Journal Articles
The future of health care is as clear and certain as the muddy windows you clean after a rainy day. We have certainly heard the doom and gloom, and yet we also hear the promise of improvement. In today’s health care environment, that means change. But, for you, the environmental services (EVS) professional, the future is marked by the necessity of change.
AHE CHESP Extended Review Workshop
Magazine & Journal Articles
CHESP is a premier credential designation demonstrating mastery of maintaining the environment of care.
An Era of Antimicrobial Resistance
Magazine & Journal Articles
Each year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that over 722,000 hospitalized patients contract a healthcare associated infection (HAI), resulting in over 75,000 deaths. In September 2013, the CDC released new evidence of emergent antimicrobial resistance threats and categorized them into categories of urgency.
Legionellosis, Part 2
Magazine & Journal Articles
Part one of this two-part article provided an overview of Legionnaires’ disease, the source of the bacterium in hospital water systems and aerosol vectors of infection. Part two focuses on the important role that a multidiscipline team plays in managing the legionellosis risk.