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Environmental Services: Taking on Impossible Tasks Every Day
It is Environmental Services Week – a time to recognize the teams of healthcare services professionals committed and dedicated to cleaning and disinfecting our healthcare facilities. And the truth...
Recalls of Medical Equipment Due to Cleaning Agent Damage Highlight Need for a Call to Action
The Association for Healthcare Value Analysis Professionals (AHVAP) continues to collaborate with the Healthcare Surfaces Institute (HSI) to improve the state of patient care through understanding...
Infection Control in the Digital Age: How to Keep Handheld Devices (and Your Hands) Clean
Thorough disinfection of mobile computers, tablets, and other devices is critical in workplaces and public spaces. But there is a right and wrong way to do it. When the pandemic started, many people...
HSI Announces New Board Member Ellen Turner
Ellen Turner brings diverse experience and expertise to the HSI Board of Directors We are thrilled to announce the addition of Ellen Turner to our board of directors. Her insight and contributions...
HSI Publishes New Article in Infection Control Today
We address how surface material and product damage caused by new advances in disinfection technology must be addressed for patient safety. Published in the May 2022 issue of Infection Control Today,...
How to Ensure that Electrostatic Sprayers Deliver Effective Disinfection
In the business of cleaning and disinfecting the patient care environment, the Environmental Services Department (EVS) is asked to perform processes that change a “soiled” room into a “patient...
FDA recalls medical devices damaged by incompatible disinfectants
Medical devices used in patient care are being recalled due to damage caused by disinfectants incompatible with the product’s surface material. There are many reasons why this is an issue. Medical...
INVZBL Partners With Healthcare Surfaces Institute to Bring UV-C Innovation to Surface Material Testing and Certification
INVZBL becomes Strategic HSI Partner through its donation to the non-profit focused on stopping healthcare-associated infections and the some 100,000 deaths per year AUSTIN, TX &...
Surface Disinfection Compatibility Part 3: Costs of “Incompatibility” in Healthcare
In Part 1 of this series, costs related to disinfection and surface incompatibility were reported as upwards of $4.1 million for one device at one hospital in a co-published case study. Part 2...
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