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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 16, 2017.

Patti Costello, Health Facilities Management
Do you know anyone who doesn’t like to be acknowledged and appreciated for doing a job well? I don’t.

Amy Eagle, Health Facilities Management
High expectations among this demographic places more importance on HCAHPS and satisfaction scores.

Healthcare Facilities Today
A dirty or badly-maintained washroom reflects badly on how a healthcare facility is managed and ultimately the care provided to patients, according to an article on the European Cleaning Journal website.

Corinne Zudonyi, CleanLink
Hand dryers have come a long way since they were first introduced.

Thomas A. Peck, Health Facilities Management
Environmental services (ES) professionals have new tools available to combat health care-associated infections (HAIs) by incorporating ultraviolet (UV) disinfecting technology into their cleaning protocol.

Jamie Morgan, Health Facilities Management
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lays out recommended preventive strategies that facility managers can use to prevent Legionnaires' disease from occurring in health care facilities.

Anuja Vaidya, Becker's Infection Control & Clinical Quality
A study, published in the Journal of Hospital Infection, investigated the transfer of Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria from a contaminated cleaning-cloth to tap outlet fittings.

Infection Control Today
Half of all people who avoid the flu shot do so because they question its importance and effectiveness, a new study from the University of Waterloo reports.

Ed Krow, Forbes
What is a true leader?

Mandy Gilbert, Financial Post
Holding a leadership role is no easy feat.

By Hank Carbone and Angela Becker

By Tom Mattice, 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!

To acknowledge the ongoing and outstanding sustainability efforts of healthcare facilities - and environmental service departments in particular - the AHE presents the Environmental Sustainability Certificate Program. This program not only provides guidance on efficient, effective and value-added environmentally sustainable healthcare operations, but also provides it in such a way that is achievable within all budgets.