Environmental Services (EVS)

What is EVS?

Horizon Health Network’s Environmental Services (EVS) team plays a critical role in keeping everyone safe. Our EVS workers support patient care by performing a variety of cleaning duties including:

• Cleaning throughout our facilities including floor surfaces, fixtures, furniture, equipment and washrooms;
• Disinfecting and cleaning rooms of discharged patients including making beds;
• Disinfecting and cleaning clinical treatment rooms, specialty rooms such as operating rooms (ORs), as well as public spaces using isolation procedures;
• Removing waste and ensuring proper disposal of waste by category (such as general, confidential and biomedical), and recycling where possible.

Our role in curbing the spread of COVID-19

Our EVS team members work behind the scenes to maintain a clean and safe health care environment. During the pandemic, their role is more important than ever. Enhanced cleaning practices are helping us fight the spread of COVID-19 throughout our facilities.