AHE Presents its 2019 Innovation Award
The Association for the Health Care Environment (AHE), of the American Hospital Association, announces the recipient of the 2019 AHE Innovation Award.
This award recognizes and increases awareness of products, processes, and technology advancements that empower individuals to improve measured outcomes in caring for the health care environment. AHE looks to challenge the existing expectations of performance, behavior, engineering and quality outcomes through innovation.
This year's recipient of the AHE Innovation Award is Ecolab, for their Scrub Free Bathroom Cleaning and Disinfecting System. Ecolab's Scrub Free Bathroom Cleaning and Disinfecting System provides environmental services technicians with a fast-acting combination bathroom cleaner and disinfectant, applied through an ergonomic foamer, which reduces the time and effort of cleaning and disinfecting surfaces.
All awards will be presented at Exchange 2019 August 21-24 in San Antonio, Texas.
Source: Association for the Health Care Environment (AHE)
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