The CDC’s 6 Core Components for Cleaning
The CDC’s 6 Core Components of Environmental Cleaning: A Checklist for EVS Leaders Your disinfectant isn’t what prevents infections. Your...
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...
Where to Find Your Next Leader
My thoughts on promoting from within. #EnvironmentalServices #Leadership #Mentoring #Recognition #Joy
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Invisible Impact
What people see in a patient room is a clean environment. No visible soil. Everything in place. A perfect picture....
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....
