In this article published in Infection Control Today, UMF Corporation CEO George Clarke says one of the most cost effective the healthcare industry can affect change in reducing HAIs is to recognize the critical role that ES, the first line of defense, plays in mitigating the risk of HAIs.

Could it be that many in healthcare fail to recognize and admit that there is a science to cleaning and disinfecting and that environmental services (ES) performs both the 1) clinical function of removing and inactivating/killing HAI producing microbes and 2) a practical function of cleaning?

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