Harrisburg, Pa.-based UPMC Pinnacle is switching vendors for environmental services and food service, affecting hundreds of hospital workers, officials confirmed to Becker’s Hospital Review. The ...

As hospitals across the nation celebrate Environmental Services Week, it’s time to recognize the often-overlooked contributions of the men and women who play a vital role in keeping health care ...

Hospitals should be safe havens for healing, not breeding grounds for infection. Yet, one in 25 patients—that’s 1.7 million – contract hospital associated infections (HAIs) every year in the U.S.

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This is where HR can help, primarily by lifting the profile of cleaning staff with other hospital employees. "Building that bridge between administration and infection preventionists and environmental ...

Paul Barach, MD, MPH, Maj. (ret.) has received research funding from including: NIH, AHRQ, HRSA, DOD, American Heart Association; Cardiomyopathy Foundation; European Union FP-7/Erasmus Plus; Norwegian ...

The indiscriminate use of non-sterile gloves in hospitals and clinics is significantly adding to environmental pollution, ...

The City of Pensacola has officially acquired the former Baptist Hospital campus, completing a two-year effort to secure ...

The developers argued the hospital is a better service to the public than another apartment complex. Carolina Forest is a fast-growing area and Horry County expects hundreds of thousands of new ...

"It is already a challenge given the fact that throughput is such an issue – the quicker they can turn the room over for the next patient. There is pressure on environmental services to do that. If ...