Operational Excellence

Read about the unintended consequences caused by the application of the Hawthorne Effect and how it impacted an environmental services department.
This webinar will review the building blocks to a successful EVS career ladder, utilizing AHE’s CHEST and CSCT programs, thus improving metrics and increasing departmental performance to the next level. 
Health care practices are always evolving due to new research and technology. It is important for health care workers to adapt a culture of continuous improvement and learning in order to keep up with new practices, implement change and impact all levels of staff. This webinar will examine how to…
The CMIP workshop provides EVS professionals with knowledge necessary to meet the CMS requirements for an infection preventionist.
Becoming a certified environmental services professional with CHESP certification shows that you know how to maintain health care environments.
This webinar will examine opportunities for overcoming budget cuts by standardizing spending, containing costs, or creating savings options for supplies, labor, operations, equipment, present value/future value, technology, chemicals, and leveraging partnerships with vendors and suppliers.
Collaborating with health care systems across the country who have CHEST trained and certified front line teams, AHE is collecting and analyzing data around key measures such as infection rates, HCAHPs scores, turnover, and employee engagement. In this program we will share data findings associated…
This webinar will review both the many ways EVS employees are important members of the patient care team, but also how we can continue to improve how patients experience care on a daily basis.
This webinar will provide an in-depth explanation of how organisms develop drug resistance, and what we can do to reduce this growth.
A close working relationship between Environmental Services and Infection Prevention leads to fewer infections. This webinar will discuss the  role of each department and methods for building effective working relationships.