Environmental Services Overview at Community Hospital North
Paul Tarrant, Site Coordinator at Community Hospital North gives an overview explaining how Environmental Services cleans at this Indiana hospital.
Senator Jim DeMint states the following on his web site – In many ways, our health care system is broken. Even people satisfied with their own care are nervous about losing it, concerned about rising costs, and frustrated by the failure of government to bring about genuine reform. But the reason Congress has so far…
"BUT" is a word that usually signals negative speech. For example, "Jason is a nice guy, BUT he can’t get his work done." or "Robin is a good cook BUT I can’t stand her taste in clothing." When we speak negatively about another person we try to excuse ourselves by asserting the truth of the…
In the great work presented in Options for Evaluating Environmental Cleaning, December 2010 by Alice Guh, MD, MPH and Philip Carling, MD, objective monitoring of environmental surfaces was studied and presented as a necessary component of training. In view of the evidence that transmission of many healthcare acquired pathogens (HAPs) is related to contamination of…
We have our staff We love them so They scrub and clean To make things glow With smiles and cheer They take each task With hope their cleaning Is going to last They move the chairs And gurneys to Driving out dust bunnies With determination and care So to each one we do Say with…
I wrote about goals a few days ago and one question I received was “what are your department goals for this year? That is a great question because I make it a practice to write out what I call major objectives for the new year each December. These are sort of mid-range goals, not short…
The goal of any Environmental Services Department within a healthcare facility should be to prevent the spread of infectious agents among patients and healthcare workers by meticulous cleaning and appropriate disinfection of environmental surfaces. To reach this goal, the EVS department will need to have a comprehensive training program, the objective of which should be…