Bryna S. Hummel and John E. Wyand, The National Law Review
On August 31, 2015, the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") Administrator signed the proposed Management Standards for Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals rule outlining management and disposal standards for hazardous waste pharmaceuticals that are generated specifically by healthcare facilities.

Lee Ann Jarousse, Hospitals & Health Networks
The 2016 American Hospital Association Environmental Scan provides insight and information about market forces that have a high probability of affecting the health care field.

Kelly M. Pyrek, Infection Control Today
Environmental hygiene, at its best, follows a prescribed set of steps in an evidence-based protocol, and guided by best-practice recommendations. Deviate from this protocol, or worse yet, cut corners, and patient outcomes can be jeopardized.

Heather Punke, Becker’s Infection Control & Clinical Quality
Clorox Healthcare and Ultraviolet Devices have introduced the Clorox Healthcare Optimum-UV Enlight System, which can kill 31 pathogens and has advanced data collection and reporting capabilities.

Jamie Morgan, Health Facilities Management
When it comes to sustainable initiatives at health care facilities, energy-efficiency upgrades and water-saving measures typically top the list.

AHA News Now
The Environmental Protection Agency yesterday ordered sBioMed LLC to immediately stop the sale, use or removal of the pesticide products Steriplex SD Part A and Steriplex SD Activator Part B, the agency told the AHA’s Association for the Healthcare Environment.

WHO via Infection Control Today
The World Health Organization (WHO) is helping Sierra Leone to mobilize all its experience and partners to ensure that any new cases of Ebola are investigated and transmission of the disease stopped as rapidly as possible.

Holly Yan and Ben Brumfield, CNN
A Pittsburgh hospital has temporarily stopped organ transplants after three transplant patients contracted a fungal infection and died.

National Foundation for Infectious Diseases via Infection Control Today
With influenza season approaching, health experts at a news conference held at the National Press Club by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) reinforced the need for everyone six months of age and older to get vaccinated with updated 2015-2016 vaccine.

Healthy Facilities Institute®
HFI recommends sealed TV remote controls for hotel-guest and healthcare-patient rooms to enable better cleaning of these high-touch points to prevent devices from harboring and spreading infectious organisms.

Oxford University Press via Infection Control Today
Scientists in Korea have discovered that using antibacterial soap when handwashing is no more effective than using plain soap, according to a paper published today in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.

Paul B. Hofmann and Gary R. Yates, MD, Hospitals & Health Networks
The importance of humility is significantly underappreciated by health care leaders.

Travis Bradberry, Forbes
Ultra successful people delight themselves by blowing their personal goals out of the water.

Wednesday, Sept. 30
Complimentary for AHE members!
In this webinar our panel of experts will outline and discuss emergency preparedness strategy and tactics that include environmental services leaders’ evolving role, and lessons learned from the Ebola outbreak, now considered the worst health crisis to hit the world in 35 years.

EXPRESS is a mobile learning platform that offers educational podcasts delivered by environmental services and infection prevention thought leaders. You asked for a learning opportunities that required less of a time commitment, and we delivered!

Kimberly-Clark Professional via PR Newswire
Dorothy Huffman, an environmental services professional who has worked at Mercy Hospital in Fairfield, OH, for 36 years, has received the 2015 Heart of Healthcare Award in recognition of her exceptional efforts to protect and enhance patient health.

Kylee Sam, Infection Control Today
Environmental services professionals play a crucial role in helping to prevent the spread of infections in patients, and to boost their ongoing education and training, the Association for the Healthcare Environment (AHE) of the American Hospital Association (AHA) is introducing a new certification program for these frontline technicians that will enhance their competencies.

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

Michael Lee Stallard
The best culture in a health care organization is a "connection culture." "Connection" is defined as a bond based on shared identity, empathy, and understanding that moves individuals toward group-centered membership.

Karen Hill-Whitson
"Workloading" is not just an overused industry term. It serves a real purpose and, when implemented correctly, it has a profound positive impact on everyone including the client, front-line staff, middle management, financial overseers, and organization as a whole.