NEHES Monthly Digest

NEHES News

Great Teambuilding Idea: Test Your Code Knowledge Game

Are you on top of your game when it comes to healthcare facility code expertise? This e-learning course, disguised as an arcade game, will show you how to level up! In this free game for ASHE members, unlock all the code rooms by successfully answering compliance code questions. Each room covers a different set of codes, but to be in compliance you must unlock all 13 rooms! Unlock all the rooms and be eligible to receive 1.5 CECs.

Other games include Whack-a-MEP, Treasure Hunt Energy Management, To the Rescue Fire Protection and Infection Prevention Parachutes.

Check out the ASHE Arcade Now!

ASHE Calls for Abstracts

Managing the Way Your Facility uses Energy is No Small Challenge – CPower Can Help.

CPower can help your organization monetize its energy assets, and manage your Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) - like energy storage, solar PV, fuel cells, wind generation, and more. To ensure your patient's high-quality care, your organization consumes a great deal of energy at all hours of the day. What if you could reduce your organization’s energy costs AND earn revenue for using less energy?

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Message from President

Make the Exchange to Hygiene

The Excel Dryer XChanger® Combo Kit makes it easy to upgrade to a hygienic hand drying solution that won’t make a mess in your facility. The XChanger allows you to completely retrofit your paper towel dispenser and waste receptacle with an XLERATOR or XLERATOReco® Hand Dryer with a built-in HEPA filtration system. Isn’t it time you threw in the towel?

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Membership

NEHES Member Spotlight

NEHES Welcomes New Members

NEHES welcomes the following 47 new members:

Michael Solak
CBRE Healthcare
Sr Director Project Management

Darrin Langlois
Heywood Healthcare
Facilities Supervisor

Marc Gregoire
Northern Light Mercy Hospital
Director of Facilities Management

ASHE Update

CMS finalizing Rural Emergency Hospital Rules

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) anticipates that Conditions of Participation for the new Rural Emergency Hospitals (REHs) designation will be finalized this autumn. CMS says this new provider type, effective January 1, 2023, will promote equity in health care for those living in rural communities by facilitating access to needed services.

The REH designation was established by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 to address the growing concern over closures of rural hospitals. The final rules will include several life safety and other physical environment requirements. For more information, please visit the CMS website by following the link below.

Environmental Rounding Tool

Facility managers are experts at mitigating life and patient safety issues, but many struggle to control infection risks in the hospital environment during construction or while performing maintenance and repairs. What if infection risk for facilities was treated the same way it is with patients, where infection is defined as the "invasion and growth of germs in the building system"?

The Environmental Rounding Tool released by ASHE in August helps facility managers apply infection control tactics of building system maintenance by identifying opportunities for infection risk during rounding. Todownload the tool and learn more, follow the link below.

ASHE Reinvents Member Volunteerism

Health Facilities Management
ASHE has developed a strategic plan to create career-enhancing volunteer opportunities for members to network, share expertise and make a difference in the field.

Sustainability

How to Make Modernization Projects Profitable and Sustainable

FacilitiesNet
Modernizing facilities to meet sustainability goals comes with costs as well as benefits. Utilizing data can help facility managers monetize their modernization investments to offset costs.

Facility Management News

Safeguarding Facilities During Severe Weather Events

Facility Executive
Hurricane season has arrived, but it is not too late to prepare. Now is the time to revisit the steps for keeping buildings safe during adverse weather events.

How to Prevent Mold Growth in Facilities

Healthcare Facilities Today
Water intrusion in a healthcare facility can cause a variety of problems, but mold often goes unnoticed until it has already had adverse effects. Learning how to prevent it is imperitive for the health of facility occupants.

Hospitals Overcome Challenges To Complete Construction Projects

Health Facilities Management
The COVID-19 pandemic came with many challenges, but in the wake of it health care facilities and construction professionals are benefitting from new insights and creative solutions born from meeting those challenges.

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