Care Team Operations for Environmental Services release notes

  • Release version: Zurich
  • Updated July 31, 2025
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    Summary of Care Team Operations for Environmental Services Release Notes

    The Care Team Operations for Environmental Services application, introduced in the Zurich release, streamlines the reporting and fulfillment of facilities-related issues within healthcare operations. This application enables healthcare organizations to automate environmental support requests, manage them efficiently, and integrate with Field Service Management for work order handling. It is available for installation from the ServiceNow Store.

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    Key Features

    • Environmental Services Support Requests: Users can create support requests directly from the Care Team Portal or Care Team Mobile using pre-configured catalog items tailored to environmental services.
    • Case and Work Order Synchronization: Environmental services cases automatically sync with work orders and work order tasks, enhancing coordination and tracking when Field Service Management is installed.
    • Role Management: New responsibilities such as Support Department Agent and Support Department Manager allow for more precise user access control. These roles can be assigned via the Edit Member related list within healthcare organizations.

    Activation and Integration

    To deploy Care Team Operations for Environmental Services, customers must request installation through the ServiceNow Store. This application integrates with Healthcare Operations Core, which provides foundational capabilities including the Care Team Portal, and complements other Care Team Operations applications for Healthcare IT, Biomed, and Facilities. Additionally, Care Team Mobile supports mobile reporting and issue management for hospital care teams.

    The ServiceNow® Care Team Operations for Environmental Services application contains case types to report and fulfill facilities issues as part of Healthcare Operations. Care Team Operations for Environmental Services is a new application in the Zurich release.

    Care Team Operations for Environmental Services highlights for the Zurich release

    • Automate healthcare operations by enabling environmental support request creation and fulfillment.
    • Create environmental services support requests from directly within the Care Team Portal or Care Team Mobile.
    • Gain full visibility into reported environmental services support cases while enabling environmental service support teams to manage and fulfill them as work orders or work orders tasks when Field Service Management is installed.
    • Assign roles and responsibilities more efficiently with a streamlined user configuration processes.

    See Care Team Operations for Environmental Services for more information.

    Important:
    Care Team Operations for Environmental Services is available in the ServiceNow Store. For details, see the "Activation information" section of these release notes.

    Care Team Operations for Environmental Services features

    Healthcare Environmental Services case

    Expand Healthcare Environmental Services cases to support custom support requests for your organization’s environmental services support department.

    Create environmental services support requests

    Request support from your organization’s environmental services department with pre-configured catalog items.

    Healthcare Environmental Services case and work order synchronization

    Care Team Operations for Environmental Services automatically syncs environmental services cases with work orders.

    Setting up roles and responsibilities in Care Team Operations for Environmental Services

    Roles and responsibilities are updated to allow for more selective user access.

    The following responsibilities were added:
    • Support department agent
    • Support department manager

    Users can be assigned these responsibilities in the Edit member related list within healthcare organizations.

    Activation information

    Install Care Team Operations for Environmental Services by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store. Visit the ServiceNow Store website to view all the available apps and for information about submitting requests to the store. For cumulative release notes information for all released apps, see the ServiceNow Store version history release notes.