Facility maintenance has changed a lot in recent years. It still calls for ensuring the safety, security, and compliance of facilities. However, as buildings and society become increasingly complex and cleanliness remains in the post-COVID-19 pandemic spotlight,...
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...
LA’s Leading Commercial Cleaning Services Company Co-Hosts Community Service Day CULVER CITY, CA – Aug, 2022 – ServiconCares, the philanthropic division of Servicon, the award-winning commercial cleaning services company and healthcare environmental services (EVS) and...
Liz Sanders worked as an assistant director of a childcare network and pre-K teacher for more than 20 years. Yet it wasn’t until four years ago, when she started working as a custodial technician for Servicon, that she felt she had found her true calling. "Everyone in...
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...
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, most hospital environmental services (EVS) providers were able to respond with the appropriate cleaning and disinfecting protocols since most EVS technicians are trained in terminal cleaning. However, for many commercial cleaning...
Gabriel Uribe is no stranger to responsibility. When he was 19, his father died unexpectedly, leaving him to help support his mother, a brother, and a sister. "I had to mature quickly when my father passed," he recalls. "I had to buckle down and try to figure out what...
Jill Reynolds believes with hard work comes growth opportunities. "I guess it is in part based on how I grew up with a single dad for a while and a sister," she says. "Both taught me if you work hard and care about whatever job you do, it will pay off. And as a woman,...
"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...
If you recently hired a commercial cleaning services provider after not doing so for a while, you may have been shocked. It’s not like it was in the old days when providers of commercial janitorial services promised a thorough cleaning of everything for one low price....
Jesus Villegas started with Servicon in January 2019 in the healthcare sector as an Environmental Services (EVS) technician. A fast learner, he was soon promoted to serve as a lead for a complex commercial building overseeing 14 employees. His start in his new role...
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...
For Hattie Tatem, Servicon team lead at an aerospace facility in Virginia, joining the company was life changing. In 2017, Hattie left her job at a nursing home to open a travel business. Her husband retired in 2019 to open a broker business. Both he and Hattie became...
EVS Healthcare Relying on COVID-19 Tactics As the COVID-19 pandemic moves slightly out of center stage, hospitals and environmental services (EVS) providers are facing another mounting challenge: a surge in healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). HAIs: A Cause for...
From a young age, Juan Garcia knew he liked hospitals. "As a kid, I was sick and in hospitals a lot," he says. "They never had the effect on me they do on other people. I didn’t feel sad or sick. I liked the idea of making people feel good and knew I could be of help...
Not everyone who has a 2-1/2 to 3-hour one-way commute that starts at 3 a.m. and includes two buses and a train ride is happy to go to work every day. But not everyone is Maria Santana, an environmental services (EVS) technician who works at a leading Los Angeles...
Juanita Garcia believes finding a career she loves was partially due to luck. She worked at a supermarket but was looking for a career change when she met a Servicon supervisor, who said Servicon was hiring. She took a cleaning test, passed it, and one week later...
When the cleaning company Zoila Salguero worked for cleaning courtrooms lost the contract, she needed another job. Several of her peers who already worked for Servicon said they like the company and that management treats them well. They recommended she apply, so she...
When the contract with the cleaning company wasn’t renewed at the facility where environmental services (EVS) technician Ana Rodriguez worked, they offered her a position at another facility. The site was far from her home in LA, a city famous for its traffic, and the...
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...