Since 2019, Ruth has worked and contributed to the mission of helping patients in our communities. As an environmental health services technician at Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center, Ruth is able to fulfil her mission to care.
What does an environmental health services cleaner do? Ruth shares what it means to her to have a fulfilling career in Maryland hospitals and health systems. Ruth admits she appreciates and feels satisfied by the end of the day.
Watch Ruth’s experience on YouTube.
Day in the Life of Ruth, a Environmental Health Services Cleaner
Video Transcription
My name is Ruth. I work in the environmental services. I clean, I do cleaning, and this is what I use for cleaning.
I have worked here since the year 2019, July the 8th. That is when I was hired. I taught in my country, Kenya, in Africa, East Africa, and I was a teacher of English language and literature in English.
In our mission, there is the issue of our healing physically, mentally, and spiritually. I just realized that as a cleaner, we actually help people to mentally prepare them. If you walk into a clean place, you will mentally start healing. So, the environmental department contributes to one bit of that mission. So while the doctor will be working on the physical, and while the chaplains pray, they are working on their spiritual, my team, our team, in environmental is working on the mental preparedness, so we all combine.