Gotta tell you, I’m not sure we’ve ever had three closer competitors for cover story status. It was pretty much a pick ’em situation. The ASHRAE 170 update from Gary Hamilton is obviously right on target for a health care issue and useful info. Our well written actual cover story presents a type of close-timeframe, dual-project endeavor we haven’t covered before.
And of course, Stephanie Taylor’s feature about hospital-acquired infections (HAI’s) had been on the schedule for months, ever since her “part one” in an earlier issue. Then, as is older and hopefully less pervasive news by the time you read this, Ebola hijacked much of the nation’s attention in the U.S.