Lea Beach, CHESP

Lea Beach, CHESP, started working in environmental services in 1999 as an ES technician. She was quickly promoted to team lead and then supervisor at her facility. She is now a manager of environmental services at Mercy Health, Janesville, Wisconsin: a multi-hospital healthcare delivery system. Lea has worked on new construction, lean process and improvement and has worked in the military sector for healthcare environmental services.

She has been a member of AHE for many years and has served on several committees including the planning and recognition committees, as well as Education and Knowledge Management, and the Advisory Council.  She has successfully facilitated numerous online classes and published several articles in Explore and HFM magazines.

In 2016 Lea was appointed to the AHE’s Board. She is CHESP Certified, a trainer of the CHEST program and has earned a Certificate of Mastery in Infection Prevention (CMIP).

Lea believes that every environmental services leader has the responsibility to “send the elevator back down” if they have been lucky enough to do well in their career. She often says, “everything is about learning and teaching.”