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Environmental Services Resources
At Smart Facility Software, we’re always examining ways to make it easier for facilities to effectively manage environmental services. These articles are designed to help directors communicate management concepts unique to EVS with hospital administration, fostering a greater understanding and more productive relationship.

The Costs of Not Investing in Your EVS Department
June 3, 2019While EVS departments don’t generate revenue, they are key to the success of revenue-generating departments. When hospitals look to decrease overhead, EVS departments— with the second largest number of people in the organization—are often first […]
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How to Use ES Optimizer Reports to Justify Staffing Levels at Budget Meetings
April 24, 2019When it’s time to present to the budget committee, you can justify your EVS staffing levels with the most accurate and up-to-date data and ensure that you have adequate staffing using your ES Optimizer Reports. […]
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Three Ways Harnessing ES Data Justifies Your Staffing and Supports Your Decisions
April 4, 2019Hospitals are information-based organizations and data is crucial for all departments. This is especially true for Environmental Services Departments—who employ the second largest workforce in the hospital—where data is essential to developing the right staffing model.
There are three key reasons you need to collect and use comprehensive EVS data to get the staff you need, while proving your employees’ value to hospital administration.
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EVS Software Case Study: Woman’s Hospital — Baton Rouge
December 7, 2018ES Optimizer Takes Woman’s Hospital — Baton Rouge’s ES Department from Guessing to Knowing The average hospital environmental services department is responsible for the cleaning and sterilization of hundreds of thousands of square feet daily. […]
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Five Software Updates: Do More in ES Optimizer Mobile
September 23, 2018We are always working to make the software easier and faster for you to use. Here is the latest round of additions bringing us closer to our goal of making the software effortless. 1 New […]
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Why an Admission, Discharge & Transfer System CANNOT Replace Environmental Services Software
August 13, 2018The Admission, Discharge, and Transfer (ADT) software is the backbone IT system in the hospital. It manages the most important activity: admitting and discharging patients and getting paid for the services. A hospital does much […]
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Customers Send Instant Service Requests – Now via Text!
August 7, 2018In 2017, Smart Facility Software introduced Service Optimizer, an add-on to ES Optimizer that makes the entire ES Staff mobile – Technicians as well as Managers. Technicians receive their daily assignments on a mobile device […]
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EVS Software Case Study: Ohio Health
July 23, 2018Ohio Health System Creates Environmental Services Efficiencies with ES Optimizer Ohio Health’s daunting facility metrics required an Environmental Services Software solution. ES MANAGERS HAVE MORE TIME FOR QUALITY AND TRAINING Long considered the cleanest facilities […]
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HCAHPS: Just the Facts
July 14, 2018What is the HCAHPS survey? The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS, pronounced h‑caps) survey is a national, standardized, and publicly reported survey completed by a random sample of adult patients between […]
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Smart Facility Software at AHE EXCHANGE 2017
August 18, 2017Smart Facility Software will be at the 2017 EXCHANGE AHE Conference & Solution Center in Orlando, Florida from September 17–20. Come see us at booth 813, take part in a hands-on demonstration of our software, and […]
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