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...
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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...
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...
Developing Future Leaders
Developing Future EVS Leaders It’s not always a staffing shortage. We have a leadership development vacuum. If a paycheck is...
What is Your Data Telling You?
Most of the data reviewed in healthcare operations meetings is historical. The reports look current, but the outcomes they describe...
Data Has Two Realities
There are two reasons to invest in data, and most organizations have only committed to one of them. The first...
Survive Budget Pressure with Data
The financial pressure in healthcare right now is not a temporary condition. Margins are thinner than they have been in...
Strategic Thinking Versus Reactive Thinking
It is 6:00 in the morning. You arrive at work and find out you have three call-outs. Your first instinct...
Seven Things You Can Do With EVS Data That Nobody Is Doing
Most EVS departments collect data the same way. Productivity reports go to administration. Attendance records go to HR. Patient scores...
Most EVS Leaders Are Flying Blind. Here Is What Changes When You Stop.
Walk into many Environmental Services departments in this country and ask the director what their average room clean time is....
The Office is a Trap: 5 Leadership Lessons
It is a seductive trap for the modern manager: the belief that leadership is a series of digital transactions—an email...
