We need YOU! 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.

Bob Kehoe, Health Facilities Management
Patients who perceive hospital cleanliness in a negative light often do more than give low scores on HCAHPS surveys.

Healthcare Facilities Today
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published final preparedness requirements that providers and suppliers must meet in order to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs, according to an article on the National Review website.

Corinne Zudonyi, CleanLink
There are industry standards that break down how long it should take workers to complete specific cleaning tasks.

Facility Executive
OSHA has issued a final rule updating walking-working surfaces standards and establishing personal fall protection systems requirements.

Sarah Anwar, Contagion Live
Everyone can agree that 2016 has been a very difficult year, but as it comes to an end so do many of the things that made it so, like the elections and the international public health threat caused by the Zika virus.

Georgiaree Godfrey, WTOC.com
Meet Violet. She is a germ-zapping robot that uses UV light to kill lingering infections.

Marie Claire Dorking, Yahoo Lifestyle
Washing your hands after you’ve been to the loo has been one of those must-dos drummed into us since toddlerhood.

Anuja Vaidya, Becker's Infection Control & Clinical Quality
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control data found last-line antibiotics may be losing their efficacy.

Katie Ferguson, The Belltower
Once again, it is that time of the year where everyone you know is catching a cold, the flu, and other seasonal illnesses.

Rick Lash, The Globe and Mail
Several years ago, I was coaching Tracy (not her real name) who was an up-and-coming performer working for a major pharmaceutical organization in New York.

Jeff Boss, Forbes
I had an incredible opportunity to speak with Lee Ellis, leadership coach and consultant, author of Engage with Honor: Building a Culture of Courageous Accountability, and former Vietnam POW about leadership.

By Patti Costello

By John Scherberger

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

The designation of AHE Fellow (FAHE) recognizes current AHE members for reaching the highest level of education and achievement in both the Association and in the environmental services field. Only presented to Certified Healthcare Environmental Services Professionals (CHESP), FAHE status is given to active members who have excelled in specific areas and have submitted an acceptable, original, unpublished paper on a current aspect of environmental services.