Maintaining a clean environment in a medical facility is critical. A clean facility reduces the risk of Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI) to patients and allows your staff to work in a safe and healthy environment. A clean medical facility has higher ratings, which can lead to more business and profitability. Our staff is specially trained to meet the standards of maintenance and cleaning in health care facilities. You can trust the staff we put in your facility will be knowledgeable in the following areas specific to medical facilities.
If you are an essential business still operating at this time, keeping your workplace safe and free from infection is likely a primary concern. This is true both to prevent illness in the facility and preserve peace of mind for all occupants, so they know all steps are being taken to keep them safe. Additionally, at this point, it is clear that individuals can be asymptomatic and still transmit COVID-19 (more data here), resulting in necessary actions being taken across every organization that has its doors open.
As a result, many organizations are taking steps to keep their facilities sanitized, such as wiping down areas with disinfecting wipes and cleaning more regularly than normal. We believe that these steps are essential but not sufficient to maintain a safe work environment amid an epidemic.
We strongly recommend professionally disinfecting your facility as a way to keep your employees and occupants safe and to keep essential personnel working in this time of crisis. Here are three of the reasons why:
- Nightingale Group Limited utilizes a different quality of sanitizing product. Off-the-shelf products can effectively address coronavirus, but they will not have the efficacy of a higher-strength disinfectant.
- Professional sanitizing can reach all corners of the facility. Applying disinfectant using a combination of techniques—including fogging, surface wiping, and spraying—areas of the building are addressed that would otherwise be missed by ordinary cleaning.
- By not using your employees or staff to clean and disinfect the premises, you keep them safe and out of harm’s way. Professional crews such as ours are trained to wear the proper personal protective equipment (PPE) and clean in such a way as to minimize risk to themselves. If you are using your staff to wipe down and clean areas, they may not know how to protect themselves adequately.
- We believe that every important business should be regularly conducting professional cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting for each of the reasons above. When the time comes to have sanitizing work done, we have several recommendations, found here.
- Regulations and Standards
Only authorized and qualified workers are assigned to a customer’s property. Our employees go through background checks in addition to our extensive training. While healthcare laws and regulations vary, our staff is trained for the state they work in. Our entire company is in strict compliance with health care regulations. You hear products being promoted as “hospital grade” or “industrial grade.” These are purely marketing terms and do not represent anything about the quality of the product. That said, there is a distinction between professional-strength cleaning products such as the ones that Nightingale uses and off-the-shelf products you would buy at the store.
Moreover, whenever you decide to clean, sanitize, and disinfect, Nightingale is here for you and happy to help.