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The AHE awards and recognition program acknowledges and elevates professionals who have demonstrated the highest level of excellence and leadership. Award recipients are those who work towards advocating and educating themselves on best practices and standards, developing new leaders within a hospital or healthcare facility, and promoting the environmental services profession.

Applications are due June 9, 2017.

Steve Willis, Facility Executive
Installing carpet can be a costly investment, especially when those carpets are sustainable.

CleanLink
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced it has designated June 12-18, 2017, as "Safe + Sound Week," a new nationwide effort that calls on organizations of all sizes in a wide range of industries to raise awareness of the value and importance of workplace safety and health programs.

AHA News Now
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will not update the overall hospital quality star ratings on Hospital Compare in July as scheduled due to data issues with three of the measures included in the safety group score, according to a QualityNet notice yesterday.

Eric Frederick, American Laundry News
As much as most of us hate change, especially when it is forced upon us, we must learn at times to embrace it.

Julius A. Karash, Health Facilities Management
Emory University School of Medicine is conducting a study to evaluate the effectiveness of monitoring systems to improve hand-hygiene compliance in health facilities.

AHA News Now
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today reported at least 85 healthcare-associated cases of Legionnaires’ disease, a serious lung infection, in 2015.

Heather Punke, Becker's Infection Control & Clinical Quality
Researchers in the Netherlands compared the effectiveness of four different products on killing distinctive Clostridium difficile PCR ribotypes and recently published their results in the journal Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control.

Infection Control Today
Although influenza vaccines are currently the best forms of protection to safeguard people against getting the flu, they are not effective in all cases.

Forbes Coaches Council
Employers and hiring managers don’t typically give much thought to onboarding new employees aside from giving them a general tour and assigning them a first task.

John Rampton, Entrepreneur
It's easy to just say that I get feedback by asking my team to tell me what they are thinking.

By Ed Barr, CHESP

By Lisa Ford, CHESP

Make yourself indispensable and advance your career! Plan your education for 2017. Visit AHE’s 2017 ENGAGE site to learn more about educational courses, podcasts, webinars, and events. And make sure to check out AHE's EXPRESS Learning Courses. EXPRESS is a mobile learning platform that offers educational podcasts delivered by environmental services and infection prevention thought leaders. You asked for learning opportunities that require less of a time commitment and we delivered!

The AHE Seal of Review and Recognition Program is designed to be a comprehensive review and formalized recognition process aimed at assisting healthcare professionals in selecting training and in-service programs that promote quality, safety and the most favorable outcomes for the healthcare environment and its related disciplines.