HEALTHCARE
ENVIRONMENTAL
HYGIENE NETWORK

  • Connecting stakeholders & leading experts from around the world
  • Making hospitals safer through improved environmental and hand hygiene
  • Benefiting public health by lowering rates of healthcare-associated infections, reducing antimicrobial resistance, and protecting hospital patients and staff as well as the larger environment

Clean Hospitals Day 2026

Interactive Healthcare-Associated Infection Dashboard

Healthcare environmental hygiene Self-Assessment Framework

Spring & Summer Newsletter

Activities

FOCUS AREAS

Environmental Cleaning & Disinfection, Hand Hygiene, Air Quality & Control, Water Control, Medical Device Reprocessing & Sterilization, Waste Management, and Sterilization/Device Reprocessing

Clean Hospitals Day
20 October 2026

Improving environmental hygiene practices

Clean Hospitals Day is celebrated each year on the 20th of October to raise global awareness of healthcare environmental hygiene (HEH) and increase engagement of healthcare facilities (HCFs) around the world.

The theme for Clean Hospitals Day 2026 is “Empowerment”

Download the toolkit to celebrate!

How We Work

  • Regular stakeholder meetings
  • Specialized working groups
  • Individually tailored trainings
  • Expert meetings
  • Lectures, international conferences & events
  • Opportunities for consulting
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Time for Collaboration

Academia
Key Opinion Leaders
Hospitals
Industry
Governmental Bodies