Insights

While 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 […]

When 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. […]

Hos­pi­tals 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.

ES 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. […]

We 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 […]

The 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 […]

In 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 […]

Ohio 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 […]

What 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 […]

Smart 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 […]