EVS as a First Line of Defense
Environmental Services (EVS) work ties directly to patient safety and to the way patients experience the hospital. Careful cleaning reduces…
ATP Testing
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: someone looked at it, someone marked it, or someone tested it. Only one of those three is actually capable of seeing what matters. The human eye can only ever catch visible soil. It has no way to see pathogen load, because pathogen load isn’t visible. Whatever a person can see with their own eyes was never going to be the whole picture, and the research bears that out again and again.
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…