AHE CHEST: Why Certification
Through proper care and maintenance of the healthcare environment, healthcare environmental services technicians play an essential role in patients’ experience of care, as well as, ensuring patient safety and satisfaction. Today’s healthcare environmental services teams strive to go beyond cleaning, disinfecting, and caring for the environment. They seek to create clean and quiet healing atmospheres that lead to improved outcomes. But in order to achieve these quality outcomes, healthcare environmental services technicians must be well-trained and demonstrate competence in a number of key areas.
BENEFITS
Department
- Respect
- Earned credential recognized by the American Hospital Association
- Ability to perform and compete at the highest level for environmental services jobs
Frontline Environmental Services Staff
- Increased patient safety, efficiency, and professionalism
- Engaged environmental services staff
- Improved patient satisfaction
Patients
- Greater satisfaction
- Better experience of care
- Improved outcomes