Facility Executive
Reducing cleaning costs is a common goal for facility managers and cleaning contractors. Traditionally, the focus is on minimizing labor expenditures, but reducing cleaning supply costs can also prove to be a major savings.

The Joint Commission
After years of The Joint Commission advocating for this change, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will begin surveying to the 2012 version of the National Fire Protection Association’s 101 Life Safety Code as of July 5.

CleanLink
A sustainability initiative is one in which an organization's emphasis shifts from short-term economic gains to a long-term approach with a balance among economic, social and environmental considerations.

Carl Weinschenk, Energy Manager Today
Good and deep data is the key to energy efficiency.

Matt Poe, American Laundry News
Laundry managers and supervisors value certain employee traits, while the managers and supervisors need the skills to deal with employees lacking those qualities.

American Laundry News
"More and more, I’m hearing about laundries and infection control. How concerned should I be about this? Are there steps I can take to, as much as possible, ensure my textiles are clean?"

Jamie Morgan, Health Facilities Management
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) awarded 11 local health departments with grants of up to $25,000 as part of its Lessons in INfection Control (LINC) initiative.

Paige Minemyer, Fierce Healthcare
Electronic monitoring tools may help promote hand-hygiene compliance, but ensuring that the habit sticks will require leaders to fully commit to enforcement, a study has found.

Shannon Barnet, Becker's Infection Control & Clinical Quality
Newark, Del.-based Christiana Care Health System implemented the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program to considerable success.

Shannon Barnet, Becker's Infection Control & Clinical Quality
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore assessed the efficacy of using ultraviolet light to disinfect high-touch areas in patient rooms in a recent study published in the journal Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

Avery Roth, Fortune
It’s no longer just about expertise and experience.

Forbes Coaches Council, Forbes
There’s "Go" and then there’s "Let’s go."

Plan your education for 2016. Visit AHE’s brand-new 2016 ENGAGE site to learn more about educational courses, podcasts, webinars, and events.

AHE is gathering input from environmental services departments across the country to identify baseline staffing productivity standards. The results of this data gathering will be used in building staffing models and providing metrics for environmental services directors. You can be a key player in identifying and establishing these important staffing criteria for our industry.

Release Date: Tuesday May 24, 2016 at 1:00 PM CST (LIVE Webinar)
Cost: Complimentary for Members; Non-members $59.00
During this webinar, participants will be exposed to the core elements of hand hygiene best practices for both the healthcare provider and support team as well as strategies to engage patients in the hand hygiene program.
Speaker: Dr. Hudson Garrett Jr., PhD, MSN, MPH, FNP, CSRN, PLNC, VA-BC, Industry Liaison, Board of Directors, Association for the Healthcare Environment

EXCHANGE 2016 will be held on September 25-28, at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, PA. This year, EXCHANGE attendees can look forward to:
• Preconference Workshop
• CHEST Preconference Workshop
• CMIP Preconference Workshop
• Micro Sessions
• Extended Sessions
• Healthcare Marketplace

If interested in contributing to EXPLORE by authoring a best-practices article, email Russell Underwood, EXPLORE editor, for more information. The magazine covers all aspects relevant to health care environmental services professionals.

The AHE Innovation Award has been developed and designed to recognize and increase awareness of Products, Processes, and Technology Advancements that empower individuals to improve measured outcomes in caring for the healthcare environment. AHE recognizes the importance of being inclusive in its efforts to recognize the "best and brightest" as we look to challenge the existing expectations of performance, behavior, engineering, and quality outcomes through innovation.

Innovations must be commercially available or otherwise already in the public domain as this award is intended to increase awareness of available solutions.

This application requires a nominal application fee of $300 at the time of application.

Interviews with Gary L. Dolan, Pam Toppel, J. Hudson Garrett, Jr., Lea Beach, Lisa Ford, Doug Rothermel, and Brad M. Winnie

Creating a Career Portfolio; Empowering Employees