What Do Healthcare Employees Want from Their Organizations?

What Do Healthcare Employees Want from Their Organizations?

Safety, location and company culture are among employees’ top concerns. The healthcare industry faces a few problems with its workforce, primarily that it is aging and getting ready to enter retirement. Attracting and retaining talent is going to be key to keeping healthcare facilities staffed properly so that patients and employees can stay safe. Compounded…

Technology Makes an Impact on Training for the Skilled Trades

Technology Makes an Impact on Training for the Skilled Trades

iPads can help facility managers streamline, standardize training programs. Trade schools aren’t just touting the terrific career opportunities available these days in the skilled trades and facilities management. Through technology, they are producing better-prepared workers for such opportunities. As the founder and CEO of the Connected Apprentice, Steve Metzman has played a role in the…

Managing an extended rodent season

Managing an extended rodent season

Facility and operations managers across the country are bracing for a new challenge this season: rodents staying active longer. Thanks to higher-than-normal temperatures and an unseasonably mild fall, what used to be a relatively predictable slowdown in pest activity after summer is now extending well into autumn — and even into winter — resulting in…

New Report Explores the State of Healthcare Facility Security

New Report Explores the State of Healthcare Facility Security

HID, an ASSA ABLOY Group brand and provider of identity solutions, has released its State of Healthcare Security Report. Based on input from more than 200 security and IT professionals working in a broad range of healthcare facilities, the report delves into the core concerns for the healthcare industry and upcoming innovations and technologies that…

Key Considerations and Challenges When Adding Solar Power to Existing Buildings

Key Considerations and Challenges When Adding Solar Power to Existing Buildings

Solar power emerges as top option for facilities to transition to cleaner energy sources. Renewable energy has experienced remarkable growth in the past few years with solar power emerging as a frontrunner in the transition to cleaner energy sources. In the last decade, solar power has experienced an average annual growth rate of 25 percent,…