EH&E Offers Free Webinar on Environment of Care Compliance Management for Hospitals

NEWTON, MA – September 15, 2006 – EH&E, a leading provider of health & safety and engineering consulting services, will sponsor a free webinar entitled “A New Concept in Environment of Care Compliance Program Support.” The featured speaker for this event is the Director of Environmental Affairs at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Massachusetts.

In January of 2006, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) implemented its new policy of unannounced inspections. This policy clearly puts added pressure on healthcare institutions to strengthen their programs and processes to ensure they are always ready for a compliance audit.

The wide range of areas covered by the Environment of Care (EC) standards represents one of the most difficult compliance challenges for healthcare institutions, considering the multidisciplinary input required and the extensive data collection and reporting requirements.

The speaker will outline the process he and his colleagues at EH&E used to identify potential weaknesses in EC programs that might be barriers to maintaining continuous compliance. He’ll then review tested solutions to these issues, including a demonstration of a cost-effective and user-friendly system to ensure continuous compliance.

This on-line event will focus on some of the key issues faced by EC groups including:

• Providing instant access to program documents and data.
• Managing program continuity during organizational changes.
• Gathering and managing program metrics efficiently (e.g., Hazard Surveillance Rounds).

Additional Information
For more information or to register for this FREE webinar, visit http://www.eheinc.com/news_workshops/healthcarewebinar.htm

About EH&E
EH&E (www.eheinc.com) has provided an extensive range of environmental and engineering consulting services for over 18 years. Our team consists of more than 60 experts with an outstanding record of providing business-focused solutions for issues that affect the built environment. EH&E has a depth of knowledge and credibility

unmatched in the industry and our wealth of readily-accessible information has become a powerful resource for our clients.

Our new series of eH&E web compliance solutions is just the latest example of our continuing effort to provide our expertise to a wider range of companies. These solutions provide much of EH&E’s compliance expertise to smaller organizations through a web-based portal, and in a very affordable way. The solutions provide a complete outline of a comprehensive EH&S compliance management program, and includes tools, databases and document templates to facilitate easy program development and maintenance.