Safety Awareness for Environmental Services Part 3 of 4
Safety Awareness in EVS, Part 3 of 4: When the Danger Is a Person, Not a Task I went deep...
Leadership
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...
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...
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...
Developing Future Leaders
Developing Future EVS Leaders It’s not always a staffing shortage. We have a leadership development vacuum. If a paycheck is...
Stoic Self Confidence Overview
Below is a nine minute overview of my book "Stoic Self Confidence" You can learn more or get it here.
How to Hold Employees Accountable With Trust
Most advice about holding people accountable quickly moves to progressive guidance. Set the expectation, document the gap, escalate to discipline....
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...
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...
Hardship has at least two phases
Misfortune hurts. That is not weakness, it is being human. The pain has to be endured before it can be...
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...
