Insights

Man­agers are putting their grat­i­tude into words. This year, dur­ing EVS Week 2025, we’re point­ing out the spe­cif­ic ded­i­ca­tion of four Envi­ron­men­tal Ser­vices staff mem­bers at Trin­i­ty Health’s Mount Carmel Health Sys­tem. The great and […]

Reflec­tions on the Amer­i­can Hos­pi­tal Association’s Lead­er­ship Con­fer­ence. The Amer­i­can Hos­pi­tal Association’s Lead­er­ship Con­fer­ence this week was not only a gath­er­ing of the industry’s bright­est minds, but also a plat­form for trans­for­ma­tive ideas in health­care […]

STANDARD THINKING MAY OVERLOOK KEY EVS REALITIES INTRODUCTION: Get­ting the most out of your human resources, as close to 100% pro­duc­tiv­i­ty as pos­si­ble. When it comes to hos­pi­tal Envi­ron­men­tal Ser­vices depart­ments, one of the most […]

AN ESSENTIAL CHECKLIST FOR HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATORS Most hos­pi­tals invest in their own team of envi­ron­men­tal ser­vices (EVS) pro­fes­sion­als to main­tain the high­est stan­dards of clean­li­ness and safe­ty. And, some hos­pi­tals part­ner with build­ing ser­vices con­trac­tors […]

If you’re an EVS direc­tor, you’re like­ly look­ing for bet­ter and faster ways to com­mu­ni­cate with your team. You should know there are three advances in Smart Facility’s EVS soft­ware that are rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing the ease […]

Tips for set­ting a course you can be excit­ed about in the new year Updat­ing your Envi­ron­men­tal Ser­vices Per­for­mance Improve­ment Plan? It’s the right thing to do – to main­tain high lev­els of clean­li­ness, patient […]

A Site Inven­to­ry: The Advan­tages of Hav­ing Your Actu­al and Unique Facil­i­ty Data Most EVS Direc­tors have expe­ri­enced this phe­nom­e­non: A staffing analy­sis bench­mark­ing report comes back with the poten­tial for sig­nif­i­cant savings—if its rec­om­men­da­tions […]

Add data to your exper­tise. As an EVS Direc­tor, you’re an expert on the EVS process. When you also become an expert on your hospital’s EVS data, you become a pow­er­ful resource who knows both […]

Whether you’re refresh­ing a site inven­to­ry, or doing one for the first time, the accu­ra­cy of your data will have long last­ing effects on your department’s suc­cess. In a pre­vi­ous arti­cle, we talked about the […]

Man­ag­ing with­out one is like sail­ing a ship with­out a rud­der. If you are an Envi­ron­men­tal Ser­vices Direc­tor, you know you need a detailed, accu­rate data­base of every clean­able space in your facil­i­ty — includ­ing […]