Robert Kehoe, Health Facilities Management
Hospital CEOs, CFOs, and other senior leaders are expected to be good financial stewards, assuming fiduciary responsibility for sustainable organizational success. A similar expectation has been evolving when it comes to environmental stewardship.

Jamie Morgan, Health Facilities Management
In the wake of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, Health & Human Services (HHS) sent out a notice from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to the health care and public health community urging them to review their security plans with employees and revise where necessary.

Michelle Mader, HC+O News
In the optimization of the operating room (OR), every minute counts. Small improvements in OR efficiency over the course of a year add up to a substantial time and cost savings for a health care organization.

Bob Kehoe, Health Facilities Management
Infection prevention and control (IPC) leaders say their facilities are more prepared today than a year ago to handle a patient with a highly infectious disease like the Ebola virus, but ICP leaders are concerned that many organizations are not providing adequate manpower resources to protect patients and health care workers.

TRSA
Societal shifts – coupled with advances in technology – are driving changes in the way health care is delivered in the United States, said Dr. Thomas Royer, in a keynote address at TRSA’s recent healthcare conference in East Brunswick, NJ.

Matt Poe, American Laundry News
What does it take to improve the productivity, efficiency, and profitability of a laundry?

Infection Control Today
Patients have difficulty deciphering complex numeric data on healthcare-associated infections used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to help consumers choose hospitals, according to a new study published online in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology
APIC has created two new fliers on the "do’s and don’ts" for wearing N95 respirators and procedure masks.

Chelsea Huffman, AGTS, CRCST, Infection Control Today
As health care professionals we often wonder how much difference we truly make in the lives of our patients. I often wonder if I am doing everything that I possibly can to create a safe environment for every person around me — not just patients but my team as well.

Lise Moloney, Becker’s Infection Control & Clinical Quality
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), many of which are caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, impact one in 25 patients – approximately 722,000 people – and cost the industry between $36 and $45 billion each year.

John Patrick Pullen, TIME
The last time you visited the bathroom, you washed your hands, right? You don’t have to tell me — you know the answer. And soon, so might the cloud.

Dana Santas, CNN
As wonderful as it is to devote an entire day to celebrating gratitude, Thanksgiving shouldn't be the only time we reflect on reasons to give thanks.

Zahra Barnes, Fast Company
You don't have to give up 2015 yet. Here are some tips to make the last few weeks of the year super productive.

Thursday, December 10
In the program participants evaluate the safe use of chemical, with a focus on OSHA, safety profiles, SDS, and staff training.

Cost
AHE Members: Free; Non-Members: $59

October 08 – December 4, 2015
AHE invites those interested in presenting at its EXCHANGE 2016 to submit a proposal for review by the Conference Planning Committee.

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.

Gabriel Boardman, EXPLORE magazine
As we observe the latest trends in health care, two of those trends are glaringly prevalent: our growing concern over infection and cross contamination, as well as our renewed interest in the greening of our industry. And these two trends are the fruits of an over-encompassing trend: The greying demographics.

EXPLORE staff, EXPLORE magazine
During EXCHANGE, AHE announced the recipients of the 2015 Recognition Awards for excellence in caring for the environment, volunteer service, mentorship, and environmental sustainability.