Environmental Care

The purpose of Environmental Care (EVC) is to ensure a safe physical environment for our patients, visitors, and staff. EVC is responsible for cleaning the hospital, performing floor care, managing waste and recycling removal, and supervising medical and sharps waste.

Engineering Operations

• Buildings & Grounds

• Paint
• Zone Maintenance
• Life Safety Doors
• Locksmith
• Life Safety Walls and Doors (Fire Compartmentation and Portable extinguishers)
• Grounds
• Carpentry
• Furniture requests and repairs

• Electrical Services

• Receptacles, breakers, generators, substations, transformers, switchgears, elevators, escalators, pneumatic tube systems, non-clinical electrically-powered equipment
• Central paging, building monitoring & automation, medical air monitoring
• Fire Warning & Signaling - Manual pull stations, smoke and heat detectors Fixed Fire Suppression - Major extinguishing system agents (expansion foam, CO2, halon, dry chemical), spray heads

• Mechanical Services

• Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning, Refrigeration
• Supply/exhaust/recirculated airflow, thermostats, exhaust and isotope fans, fumehood exhaust, heating/cooling, HEPA filters, valves, ductwork, automatic doors, distilling systems, medical air compressors, pumps ice machines, refrigerators/freezers, Lieberts
• Plumbing
• Drinking fountains, steam, condensate, domestic water, restrooms, medical gas outlets, emergency shower/eyewash stations

• Power Plant

• Production and distribution of chilled water and steam (boilers, chillers, natural)

• Business Services

• Customer Service, Accounting and Finance, Engineering Administration

Clinical Engineering Services

Clinical Engineering Services (CES) primary responsibility is to repair, inspect, and maintain the safe and effective performance of the majority of the medical equipment at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Types of Equipment Serviced:

• Medical electronic equipment: physiologic monitors, clinical networks, infusion pumps, defibrillators, pulse oximeters, electro-surgical units, infant incubators, warmers, etc.
• Medical electro-pneumatic-hydraulic equipment: ventilators, anesthesia machines, surgical tables, ICU beds, suction pumps, etc.
• Medical electro-mechanical equipment: heart-lung bypass units, hypo-hyperthermia machines, pumps, card embosser / imprinter machines, operating room tables, clinical beds, sterilizers, washers, etc.
• Specialty equipment: lasers, ultrasonic imaging, surgical equipment, etc.

Other types of Equipment Serviced:

• Personal computers: IBM-compatible hardware and software
• Personal computer peripherals: monitors, scanners, etc.
• Office equipment: copiers, fax machines, etc.
• Laboratory equipment: microscopes, centrifuges, incubators, power supplies, etc.
• Video equipment: televisions, cameras, monitors, record and playback equipment, etc.
• Communication equipment: nurse call intercom systems
• Test equipment: oscilloscopes, multimeters, simulators, etc.

Services Provided:

• Repair, inspection, and preventive maintenance of equipment
• Telephone troubleshooting support
• User training
• Pre-purchase equipment evaluations
• New equipment installations
• Equipment design, modification, and special interfacing needs
• Equipment database construction and maintenance
• Equipment incident investigations
• Equipment management services