Happy Environmental Services Week

ByJohn Weir

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Happy Environmental Services and Housekeeping week to all the very hard service workers in our industry.

In a department comparison test we:

Serve more people on a daily basis

Save more lives through infection control

Clean up the health care environment than any other

Talk with more patients each day

Handle hundreds more pounds of materials

Report more maintenance items

and the list goes on…

Thank you for all the hard work day after day. Without you, our hard-working staff, we would be nothing. I’m proud to work with such awesome individuals.

 

 

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