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...
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 it also helps hospitals run more efficiently, reducing costs...
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...
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...
Nora Revolorio joined Servicon as a cleaning technician in 2018 at the suggestion of a friend who worked for—and recommended—the company. She liked her job, her supervisor, and her coworkers. But she couldn’t use the construction skills she had learned while helping...
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...
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 and its Delta and Omicron variants, can linger in the air for several hours, if not longer. It can also infect people at distances of up to 6 feet; in some “preventable circumstances,” such as in enclosed spaces with...
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...
Elizabeth Fernandez wears a necklace that reads, "She believed she could, so she did." It's her personal mantra—but it wasn't always. "Before I began working at Servicon, I was in a bad situation," Elizabeth confesses. "I was unemployed, pregnant, and in an unhealthy...
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...
When Michelle Luna agreed to do a favor for a colleague, she didn't realize she was making a career move she would never regret. "One day, my friend Mark, who I worked with in the past, called and asked me if I could work part-time for Servicon overseeing a client's...
People often ask, "Why should I outsource cleaning services?" or "Can commercial janitorial services save you money?" These are good questions. Equally important is the answer provided by a professional commercial cleaning services company you are considering hiring....
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is an infectious disease that hospital environmental services (EVS) and other hospital cleaning services must be familiar with to help prevent its spread. Facts EVS for Hospitals Should Know About MRSA MRSA is a...
For many people, the recent holidays didn’t feature the large family get-togethers they did in years past. In fact, for many, it felt like a replica of December 2020, when even masks and social distancing weren’t enough. Meanwhile, for those specializing in commercial...