Environmental Services

Education Opportunities

Inspections

Environmental Services employees work very hard to keep the institution looking clean, and they take pride in their work. Cleanliness of the institution is important for everyone. Periodically, employees and patient areas are inspected for quality to ensure high standards are met in accordance with Joint Commission requirements.

Most employees want to improve the way they carry out their job functions. The evaluation looks at duties performed every day. This process is a means of evaluating employee performance and needs. It gives recognition to those employees and also helps everyone maintain the same standards of cleaning.

Environmental Services employees use the Environmental Services Computer Tool and BedTracking and the Electronic Timekeeping system to ensure quality and improve their job performance.

Software Systems to Learn

Environmental Services Computer Tool (ESCt) and BedTracking

ESCt is a tool that calculates daily workload. The computer program provides written assignments for each staff member. This program ensures that all assignments are productive and equitable. BedTracking is an automated paging system that interacts with the phone system for completing discharge cleaning in hospital patient rooms. (Learn about ESCt and BedTracking.

Electronic Timekeeping (ETK)

Electronic Timekeeping is an efficient and accurate system used to record the time for which an employee is paid. During orientation, new employees receive a card that allows them to record their time electronically into one of many Electronic Timekeeping Devices located throughout the downtown campus and St. Marys Hospital. All employees have access to activity they have recorded through the Electronic Timekeeping Device by accessing the information through a computer terminal in their work area.