"Properly Cleaning Healthcare Facilities Is So Important"

With so much at stake, the cleaning needs of healthcare facilities are unique from many other institutions. They require the expertise of janitorial specialists dedicated to ensuring a thoroughly cleaned, sanitized and disinfected environment. At ServiceMaster Clean, we bring our extensive cleaning knowledge, utilizing methods and products, to help prevent cross contamination. With ServiceMaster Clean, you benefit from a national network that delivers consistent results across the complete range of healthcare cleaning needs.

Healthcare facilities need specialized cleaning including sanitizing and disinfecting.  It's important to utilize cleaning practices and products that will prevent contamination.

The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention states that there are nearly 1.7 million cases of healthcare associated infections (HAIs). Of these more than 98,000 patients, one in 17, die due to contraction of a HAI while at a healthcare facility. This makes HAIs the most common complication of hospital care and one of the top leading causes of death in the USA. Implementing better cleaning and infection prevention practices is estimated to save between $25 billion to $32 billion in medical costs.

Retro Clean, LLC makes sure that their  employees receive the proper education and training will decrease cross contamination, reduce the cases of HAIs and increase compliance.

Healthcare cleaners must know and use good hand hygiene, and correct cleaning and disinfecting procatices.  Training should include things like setting up the cleaning cart, how to properly put on personal protective equipment (PPE), and correct order to clean areas to ensure proper cleaning and disinfecting.

The patients in healthcare facilities have a much higher risk for contracting infections. With proper training and understanding of techniques required to clean and disinfect healthcare facilities, many infections and deaths can be prevented. 

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Finding a company that you can feel comfortable choosing is easy when you use the IJCSA Home Cleaning/Maid Service Directory. When you allow someone into your home and personal space you want to know that you are hiring a company you can trust.

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The proper cleaning of a healthcare facility is essential for the health of the employees, patients, and visitors. It is one of the key things to keeping infections from spreading.

Cleaning healthcare facilities takes proper training and routines to follow to making sure the job is done to the most detailed point. It takes the right procedures, PPE, and the right attention to detail.

Finding a qualified candidate for this type of job can be made easy by going to https://www.ijcsa.org/Janitorial-Service-Directory-Find-A-Janitorial-Service-JanitorialServices to make it easier for you.

          Proper cleaning is an important action to prevent infections and keep the environment safe for the staff, patients and visitors. Is very easy to spread germs around without even knowing.

          Cleaning employees have to be sure to use proper clothing, materials and have the proper kind of equipment, like the Personal Protective Equipment (P.P.E.), equipment like gown, face mask, eye goggles and gloves, especially when you’re using chemicals that could splash into your eyes. 

         Finding a IJCSA company using the Janitorial Service Directory Is also a good role to do your part in infection control.  Now days we have many diseases going on and a company’s who knows the value of properly cleaning is really a plus.

      Universal precautions are for everybody who deals with any kind of human body secretions. Universal precautions recommend that blood and certain body fluids from all patients be considered potentially infectious and that infection control precautions be taken to minimize risk of exposure.(Bloodborne Pathogens Standard 29 CFR 1910.1030(b) definitions).

        There are two main reasons why we use universal precautions;

        The first being is to protect all workers by teaching them about hand washing, probably the most important reason to wash your hands it stop the spread of exposure. When working in a janitorial environment it is useful if you use gloves and wash your hands after leaving every room changing gloves frequently and sanitizing in between and  after each task. This helps stop the spread to patients and others in your cleaning environment

         The second reason is to protect ourselves. when we wear protective gear to do our jobs we are protecting ourselves from potential exposure to blood borne pathogens. When we use universal precautions it makes the employee safe and the environment around them safe, it also lessen the probability of exposing your family to the pathogens. 

           There are specific recommendations for Universal precautions, 

          For example:  Nurses may only be required to wear mask and gloves during normal routine patient care, as a universal precaution the nurse then may donn a gown, boot covers, and outside gown, may use two pair of gloves.  Janitorial workers must follow universal precautions for their safety and the safety of others as well; 

          Universal precautions for custodians are a little different,

          Wearing rubber gloves,  do not pick up any needles or syringes with your hands always use some type of tongs or a broom and dustpan,do not use your hands to scoop trash out of one bag into another,(such as to make room in the bag), Use disinfectant or bleach (ratio:1 to 10)  when cleaning blood,always wash your hands after removing your gloves, 

Let me first take a moment to implore IJCSA members and customers to continue following official Government & CDC directives to safeguard themselves and their families.  We at Executive Office Cleaning Services, along with our fellow IJCSA Members, look forward to providing our current and future customers safe, effective, cost efficient, customer service driven services and products. Designed to help them maintain safe & healthy environments for themselves,their employees and their customers/clients. Every IJCSA Member understands that providing a great customer experience is an important part of the IJCSA ideology. 

Companies that strive to achieve the IJCSA green cleaning certification demonstrate to the consumer, that they are aware of the particular potential contaminants that affect the air quality and eventually the quality of life. IJSCA provide a Green Cleaning Service Directory. Consumers can locate companies in their area from the directory that have achieved the green certification. More and more consumers are aware of the health benefits of a green cleaning company. Consumers search for those establishments first given our present environmental state.    

In our ever changing environment the concept of a green society makes more sense now than ever. Being proactive exploring ways to implement a Green Cleaning Program to the mainstream, while some may not see the benefits they may experience the consequences. Potentially hazardous chemicals used in everyday homes have become far more dangerous when used improperly. Studies show the basic primary benefits of a green program, begin with selecting products that do not contain environmental contaminants which reduces the ecological footprints. Those chemicals have in a lot of cases end up in our drains which will ultimately enter our public water system. Cleaning practices that take the environment into account, has shown to improve air quality, productivity reducing sick days at the workplace and quality of life in homes.  

According to one recent workplace microbial survey, "desktop surfaces, computer keyboards, mouse and telephone receivers are more contaminated than restroom toilet seats."

Did you know that the average office toilet seat has approximately 49 germs per square inch? Desktops have almost 21,000 germs per square inch, and phones had more than 25,000 germs per square inch. Desks, phones, computer keyboards and your mouse are germ transfer points because people touch them so often.

Coughs and sneezes can leave a myriad of viruses that can be lost on these items for up to three days. 

Enclosed environments, where people are interacting closely with one another, are at a higher risk of the spread of germs. With people often going to work sick, this can quickly lead to outbreaks in workplace settings.

 Retro Clean, LLC realizes that our hands are responsible for the spread of 80% of common diseases with proper hand hygiene being recognized as the most cost effective means of infection control in the workplace. 

 "Health promotion or wellness programs have been shown to be effective at reducing absenteeism, health costs, workers compensation claims and turnover but often, forget to address infectious diseases.  Workplace infection control programs focusing on hand hygiene have been found effective at reducing absenteeism on average by around 40 %. An important component of prevention is hand hygiene training and supplies including soap, sanitizer, paper towels and tissues," comments Barry Michaels, an infectious disease expert.

And with all said isnt it just as important to transfer these same practices to our homes? 

Experienced cleaning companies can help you fight these germs and help your employees be happy and healthy. 

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This is why it is imperative to get a professional Mold cleaning service to remove severe cases of mold on your property.

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