Hospital Cleaning – Delivering the Highest Hygiene Standards

Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs) have been big news in the media in recent years, with infections from bacteria such as MRSA, C. difficile and the like representing a serious risk to the health of patients, staff and visitors at healthcare facilities. As a result, infection prevention and control are key priorities for the NHS and private medical facilities alike. The provision of highly effective healthcare cleaning services is paramount to ensure the risk of infection is reduced.

Control infection in hospitals with high standards

One of the essential key factors in the control and management of Healthcare Associated Infections is to ensure the highest standards of hygiene and cleanliness are achieved and maintained throughout the healthcare premises. These types of infections can cause a range of serious and sometimes fatal risks to individuals who come into contact with the diseases. Prevention is better than a cure so therefore ensuring infection does not happen in the first place should be a priority. In order for this to happen, cleaning standards should be correctly maintained. However, this requires specialist professional training and detailed knowledge.

Important factors of consideration when choosing a healthcare cleaning service

When choosing a cleaning partner for a healthcare environment there are several areas in which the selected cleaning partner should be able to demonstrate their knowledge and experience. These include:

• Using the correct protective equipment
• Safety and security
• Aseptic cleaning
• Disinfectant chemistry
• Preventable causes of disease transmission
• Abide by Care Quality Commission (CQC) standards to ensure the highest level of cleaning service is delivered

Healthcare cleaning professionals should also be able to display proficiency in the management and the use of correct cleaning systems, chemicals and cleaning materials while also being able to handle cleaning equipment and storage facilities in the right manner to follow rules and regulations.

Deep cleaning duties

As well as a regular cleaning schedule, hospitals and other commercial establishments must be deep cleaned. This thorough process consists of wards being emptied which gives cleaners easier access to clean every area of the room. This includes medical equipment, floors, walls, beds and other surfaces.

What commercial cleaners can offer

As hospitals are so large and contain a lot of people at any given time, who are generally unwell. This can make it tough to organise a ward to deep clean and therefore keep hygiene levels to meeting a high level of standards. However, failing to keep these hygiene standards risks outbreaks within wards which otherwise could've been avoided.

Hospital staff are also often overworked and extremely busy, so finding the hours to set up deep cleaning and carry it out would be too time consuming.

Well trained cleaners can work around your hospital's needs out the highest quality cleaning services and procedures possible to keep patients, staff and visitors all safe.

Expert hospital cleaning services for medical facilities from Jani-King

All Jani-King staff that clean in a healthcare environment are required to undergo full training including theoretical training that is compliant with national regulatory requirements and hands-on experience in the medical sector, helping reduce Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI’s). Our aim is for Jani-King’s cleaning team and staff to be an example that best practice application means success.

From hospital wards, to floors, walls, bathrooms and lobbies, we are equipped to offer you a full range of services to keep your hospital premises clean.

If you’d like to know how we can help you with your healthcare cleaning requirements, then please do get in touch.