The ASHES 22nd Annual Conference and Healthcare Marketplace is not far off. I hope you are making plans to attend this blockbuster event on Sept. 30 through Oct. 4 in St. Louis.
We are very honored and excited to have the National Association for Healthcare Transport Management (NAHTM) colocate their annual conference with ASHES. Members of both organizations are certain to benefit from the expanded educational content and growth in conference attendance.
This alliance demonstrates the critical roles ES and patient transporter professionals play in supporting the National Patient Safety Goals, particularly as they relate to handoff communications, patient identification, the environment of care, infection control and patient fall prevention. The ASHES and NAHTM partnership will foster recognition that the support services professional is, in fact, an equal partner and stakeholder with the clinical professional in the quest for excellence in the health care environment.
Our members will be given opportunities to create unique collaborative relationships that will be a model for other support services professions. Together we can become a presence in health care to be reckoned with: to be the one voice that is heard loud and clear in the interests of our patients and visitors. Together we can set the bar for excellence.
Join all of the ASHES partners at this years’ program: AFFLINK, U.S. Army Medical Command, NAHTM, Sodexho Healthcare Environmental Services and VA Environmental Management Service.
Be on the leading edge and expand your professional possibilities. Join us in St. Louis for a dynamic, exciting, educationally fun and rewarding experience!
Rose Hamann, CHESP
Director, environmental services and security
Blessing Hospital
Quincy, Ill.
Update
ASHES summer publications sale
ASHES publications are available for 25 percent off through Aug. 31. To order online, go to www.ahaonlinestore.com and click on “Environmental Services” under “All Products” in the left column; to order by phone, call (800) 242-2626.
Celebrate ES week with ASHES
Celebrate 2007 Healthcare Environmental Services Week with ASHES on Sept. 9-15 with the theme “Environmental Services: Partners in Quality, Patient Safety, Excellence.” The event provides an opportunity to show support for ES staffs. For more information on ES week, visit www.ashes.org and look for the ES week logo; to view the ES week product line, go to www.jimcolemanltd.com/esweek.
Recognition Toolbox available
Written by ASHES members for ASHES members, the Recognition Toolbox contains proven ideas, programs and strategies to recognize ES staff. This 80-page guidebook also includes a CD-ROM with templates to create your own certificates, awards, newsletters and more! It is available to ASHES members for $69 and to nonmembers for $99. To order, log on to https://www.associationstores.org/OA_HTML/ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?section=10160&item=172.
ASHES membership awards nominations
Nominations are being accepted for the 2007 ASHES membership awards, including the following:
• 2007 Member Awards: Phoenix Award (sponsored by AeroWest-West Sanitation), J. Owen Flynn Memorial Award (sponsored by Wexford Labs) and James Wolffbrandt Mentor Award (sponsored by the Greater Philadelphia ASHES Chapter).
• Member Choice Awards (selected by membership votes): Environmental Stewardship Award (sponsored by Thomas Fitzgerald III, CHESP, and Family), Innovator Award (sponsored by Walsh Mobile) and Recognition Program Award (sponsored by Sodexho Healthcare).
• 2007 Affiliated Society Awards: Excellence in Communication Award, Excellence in Education Award and Networking for Professionalism Award.
Log on to www.ashes.org for additional information.
This article first appeared in the July 2007 issue of HFM.
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