Healthcare

The patient experience in the healthcare industry goes far beyond receiving medical care. From the standard of care to the setting in which it is delivered, it encompasses all facets of a patient's engagement with the healthcare system. Of all these variables, hygiene...

4 Tips to Identify If Your EVS or Commercial Cleaning Services Provider Is Truly Green As many of us in the healthcare environmental services (EVS) and commercial cleaning services industry are aware, greenwashing - “The creation or propagation of an unfounded or...

How the Right EVS Provider Can Help Reduce Costly Mistakes in Biohazardous and Other Medical Waste Disposal The post-COVID world has brought on many positive health-related changes, from a more intense focus on hand hygiene to an improved understanding of the...

As the best commercial cleaning services companies with cleanroom experience know, ensuring the cleanliness and maintenance of cleanroom storage areas is vital to current good manufacturing practices (cGMP) for pharmaceutical companies. Negligence in storage areas can...

Those working in hospital housekeeping jobs—or, as they are now referred to, environmental services (EVS) hospital jobs—have always been vital. EVS workers contribute significantly to patient care, and satisfaction and help reduce healthcare-associated infections...

The shift from hospitals to ambulatory care continues for reasons ranging from cost savings to convenience. Ambulatory, or nonemergency, care is provided in outpatient settings such as medical offices and clinics, hospital outpatient departments, outpatient surgery...

More than half of the contiguous United States was in some form of drought as of August 16, 2022, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. Most experts expect the trend to continue. Many states, such as California, already have implemented water usage restrictions with...

MONKEYPOX SAFETY INFORMATION (Sourced from CDC, DHS, EPA, CA Department of Health, LA County Department of Health, WHO) Monkeypox Virus (MPXV) is a zoonotic virus (a virus that originates in animals) that belongs to the same group of viruses as the Variola major...

What Employees and Providers Need to Know About Monkeypox With over 20,000 cases worldwide, monkeypox has been declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization, and last week the Biden Administration declared the outbreak a national health...

Massachusetts Department of Public Health officials have confirmed the first U.S. case of monkeypox in a traveler who returned to the states from Canada. The first suspected case was being investigated in California at the time of publication, while 260 cases in 22...

There are many areas in a hospital that it is essential for hospital environmental services (EVS) providers to properly maintain. ”One location that may be overlooked is the EVS cleaning services area, where EVS cleaning technicians store, prepare, and reprocess their...

"What is a dirty utility room?" Many people believe the answer is that it is where soiled linens go. But as environmental services (EVS) providers in hospitals and workers in other types of medical cleaning services know, this is not correct. A dirty utility room,...

Hospital environmental services (EVS) providers were once providers of hospital cleaning services. Today, however, as more patients seek help from urgent care or other outpatient medical facilities, an increasing number of EVS technicians may never set foot in a...

Note: This is the third in a series of how EVS providers and facility managers can help their hospitals become more sustainable. Environmental services (EVS) providers have more of a role to play in making hospitals more sustainable than many realize. As discussed in...

EVS & FM Working Together to Reduce Energy Consumption Note: This is the second in a series of how EVS providers and facility managers can help their hospitals become more sustainable. Sustainability in hospitals is essential from an environmental viewpoint, but...

How Hospital EVS Providers Can Scale Back Their Water Usage This is the first in a series of how EVS providers and facility managers can help their hospitals become more sustainable. The studies on hospital water usage are abundant—and alarming. Yet there are ways...

Most people consider hospitals a place of healing. Yet hospitals are one of the most hazardous places to work, and healthcare environmental services (EVS) providers face many unique dangers daily. The Risks for EVS Healthcare Workers In 2019, U.S. hospitals recorded...

7 Unique Challenges Today's EVS for Hospitals Face There is a lot for workers in healthcare housekeeping services to keep up with these days, starting with their name. Once referred to as janitorial or custodial services, this morphed into hospital or healthcare...

For hospital environmental services (EVS), being well-versed in infection prevention and infection control is vital to their safety and well-being and that of hospital patients, staff, and visitors. However, not all hospital cleaning services workers realize the...

It was once believed hospital cleaning services only needed to clean the floors in the facility once a day, and maybe not even that often, depending on the area’s use. In fact, in 2003, the CDC maintained, “Floors generally have low patient exposure (i.e., are...

Servicon recently completed a two-month study on the best cleaning methodology for hospital environmental services (EVS). The study compared three different cleaning protocols used by Servicon’s hospital EVS workers to determine which might be most effective. The...

What disinfectant is nontoxic, practical, available, and flexible enough for use by hospital environmental services (EVS for hospitals) in a wide variety of areas? OK, the article’s title might have provided a clue, but if you guessed hypochlorous acid (HOCl), you are...