C. diff Doesn’t Care About Your Feelings
Clostridioides difficile forms a spore that survives almost everything you’re using to disinfect a room. Standard hospital-grade disinfectant, the quaternary...
Month: August 2026
Three Ways to Check If a Room Is Clean, and Three Different Answers
Ask an Environmental Services (EVS) program how it knows a room is clean, and you’ll get one of three answers:...
EVS Is Part Of The Infection Prevention Team
The Overlooked Heroes in Healthcare: Why the Housekeeping Team Saves More Lives Than Anyone Realizes A surgeon gets applause. An...
The CDC’s 6 Core Components for Cleaning
The CDC’s 6 Core Components of Environmental Cleaning: A Checklist for EVS Leaders Your disinfectant isn’t what prevents infections. Your...
Is Your EVS Program Ready?
2026 Guidance Puts Infection Prevention on Leadership. Is Your Environmental Services (EVS) Program Ready? For years, infection prevention conversations treated...
Where to Find Your Next Leader
My thoughts on promoting from within. #EnvironmentalServices #Leadership #Mentoring #Recognition #Joy
Low Budget Not Low Standards
Why Low Budget Doesn’t Mean Low Standard You don’t need a multi-million dollar capital equipment budget to lower your Hospital-Acquired...
Looks Clean is Not Clean
Looks Clean Is Not Clean A room can look spotless and still fail. I wrote yesterday about why a fixed...
Stop Asking ATP What Clean Is
Stop Asking ATP What Clean Is Most Environmental Services (EVS) departments that adopt an ATP (adenosine triphosphate) luminometer program start...
Lessons from the Trenches
Years ago, as a Supervisor, at a different medical center, I walked in and found nine callouts. Vacations already approved...
Washington hospital break enforcement remains an active leadership exposure
Washington hospital break enforcement remains an active leadership exposureClassification: Mandatory Washington requirement; not newly issued this week. Washington L&I’s hospital...