Joint Commission Update Accreditation 360 For Environmental Services Series Recap
On January 1, 2026, Joint Commission’s Accreditation 360 replaced the Environment of Care (EC) and Life Safety (LS) chapters with…
Cleaning After an Incident on a Behavioral Health Unit
Cleaning After an Incident on a Behavioral Health Unit Routine cleaning on a behavioral health unit is usually that, routine.…
EVS as a First Line of Defense
Environmental Services (EVS) work ties directly to patient safety and to the way patients experience the hospital. Careful cleaning reduces…
Joint Commission Update Accreditation 360. Update 8 of 9
NPG #11: Creating a Secure and Safe Physical Environment A safe hospital is built out of small actions. A spill…
How Infection Travels Across a Hospital
Infection control becomes easier to understand once you stop picturing germs as mysterious enemies and start tracking movement. Microorganisms travel…
Cleaning on Behavioral Health Units: More Than a Standard EVS Task
Cleaning in an adult behavioral health unit requires the same disciplined infection prevention practices used throughout the hospital, but it…
More Than A Clean Room
The phrase hospital-acquired infection, or HAI, describes an infection that develops during or soon after a person receives care. Some…
The Physical Environment Update 7 0f 9
Three Questions Every EVS Technician Should Be Able to Answer National Performance Goal #5: Preventing and Controlling Infection A patient…
The People You Do Not See
When you walk into a hospital, you see the doctors and nurses. You notice the monitors, the uniforms, the bright…
PE.04.01.05: Water Management
PE.04.01.05 requires organizations to have a water management program that addresses Legionella and other waterborne pathogens, and it carries four…
The Data Doesn’t Lie: How Validated Surface Cleaning Directly Drives Down HAIs
When hospital leaders see Hospital-Acquired Infections climb, the response is predictable. Leadership calls a meeting, clinical educators refresh hand hygiene…
The Physical Environment 5 of 9
PE.04.01.01: Building Safety and Facility Management PE.04.01.01, one of the standards inside the Physical Environment (PE) chapter Accreditation 360 created…