Hidden Frontline: Why Cleaning Is The First Step In Clinical Care
The Hidden Frontline: Why Cleaning is the First Step in Clinical Care Intervention: an action taken to prevent, treat, or...
Infection Control
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...
The Invisible Impact
What people see in a patient room is a clean environment. No visible soil. Everything in place. A perfect picture....
Dilution is Easy Until It’s Not
Mixing stations introduce variables that many cleaning programs don't account for. Water pressure fluctuates throughout the day and across different...
The Certification Nobody Talks About
Most hospital leaders cannot tell you where EVS fits in the chain of infection. The answer is the environmental reservoir....
Staff Training: The Four C’s
I have developed a full staff training on the Four C's that we will be rolling out next week. These...
Know Your Microbial Targets: Choosing the Right Disinfectant for the Pathogen
Part 2 of the Choosing the Right Disinfectant Series By John Michael Weir | Environmental Services Professional In the first...
Choosing the Right Disinfectant: A Guide for EVS Professionals
By John Michael Weir Selecting the right disinfectant is one of the most consequential decisions an EVS professional makes, and...
Terminal Cleaning of the Operating Room
When you think of the word "clean," you might picture a sparkling kitchen counter. But in a hospital operating room,...
Confronting the Ghost in the Room: Why Candida auris Demands Aggressive Disinfection
In my 27 years of experience in Healthcare Environmental Services (ES), few pathogens have proven as mysterious or as resilient...
6 Microbial Secrets That Will Change How You See the World
Introduction: The Invisible Universe This article pulls back the curtain on this hidden world. We will uncover the story of...
