Environmental services (EVS) staff are essential in providing a clean and safe environment for staff, patients, and visitors at healthcare facilities. Their crucial role includes cleaning and sanitizing public and private areas to eliminate viruses, germs, and hospital-acquired infections.
Every day, EVS personnel across the country work on the frontlines to create a healthy and safe environment for patients, residents, staff, volunteers, and visitors. However, even now, after two years of a pandemic, these unsung heroes are often overlooked.
Cintas is once again recognizing these healthcare heroes with the Cintas C.A.P.E. Award (Cleaning to Advance the Patient Experience), which aims to identify acute and long-term care EVS techs who display kindness and courage, and spend countless hours maintaining facilities to prevent infection.
Healthcare professionals, family members, and others are invited to nominate acute and long-term care EVS technicians with inspiring stories for the chance to win a cash prize and a donation to their healthcare institution. Nominees must be 18 years or older, a legal resident of Canada (excluding Quebec and Saskatchewan) or the U.S, and have been employed for a minimum of one year with the same acute or long-term care healthcare facility (e.g., hospital, home health care).
Ten winners will receive a $2,500 cash prize and a $2,500 donation on their behalf to their healthcare institution or charity of choice. Winners will also receive a Rubbermaid charging bucket with products inside. Cintas, in partnership with The Association for the Healthcare Environment (AHE), will provide one scholarship to the designated trainer of their institution (typically an EVS director, manager, or supervisor) to attend one of AHE’s signature series Train the Trainer programs (T-CHEST, T-CSCT, T-CNACC), plus the technician will receive a scholarship to be trained and certified in the AHE program (CHEST, CSCT, CNACC) at their facility.
Nominations for the 2022 Cintas C.A.P.E. Award are open now through August 8.
