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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.

COVID-19 Ultimate Test of Adaptability

Flexing with Fluid Work Assignments

The most suc­cess­ful envi­ron­men­tal ser­vices depart­ments are able to flex with change, both planned and unex­pect­ed. Dur­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, EVS depart­ments all over the coun­try have been endur­ing the ulti­mate test of their adaptability. […]

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Environmental Services Week 2020: Your Stories

    To cel­e­brate Envi­ron­men­tal Ser­vices Week, we asked EVS lead­ers to share sto­ries about their depart­ments and offer their praise. Here are the good vibes we received. — “It is dif­fi­cult to pin­point a […]

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Environmental Services: Celebrating Unsung Heroes

EVS acknowl­edged for life­sav­ing work dur­ing COVID-19 pan­dem­ic Updat­ed Sep­tem­ber 13, 2021 Envi­ron­men­tal ser­vices depart­ments have been receiv­ing due praise from hos­pi­tals and local news across the coun­try since the advent of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic. COVID-19 […]

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Talking Productivity in Environmental Services Departments

Three Charts to Shape the EVS Pro­duc­tiv­i­ty Con­ver­sa­tion Pro­duc­tiv­i­ty is a dai­ly top­ic in hos­pi­tals, both for oper­a­tions and for clin­i­cal staff. The goal is to make the most of your human resources on duty, […]

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Using ES Optimizer for Performance Improvement Planning

As an EVS Direc­tor, you are like­ly tasked with devel­op­ing per­for­mance improve­ment plans for your depart­ment on an annu­al basis. An ini­tia­tive could be decreas­ing the amount of reg­u­lar waste in haz­ardous waste con­tain­ers. Or, […]

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EVS Dashboard Provides Daily Progress at a Glance

Using tra­di­tion­al paper check­lists to assign dai­ly assign­ments and track­ing their com­ple­tion, EVS man­agers have to con­tend with a major blind spot — the team is spread out over a large facil­i­ty and paper checklists […]

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