Healthcare News Archive
Hospital Cleaning in the 21st Century
It has been long known that hospitals are a place of healing and safety but for as long as hospitals have been known to heal diseases; they have been known to cause them as well. In the year 2000, nearly 103,000...
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Healthcare Cleaning-The Never Ending Battle
Healthcare facilities should be among the cleanest of buildings. To the naked eye, most hospitals and other healthcare facilities are just that, clean looking. But if you had eyesight that should show you the germs and bacteria infesting healthcare facilities, you would be wondering why hospitals...
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The Factors That Go Into Hospital Cleaning
Hospitals are a germaphobe's worst nightmare. Sick people are everywhere coughing and spreading their illnesses. Various tools are used from patient to patient, causing concern for what illness the previous user possessed...
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The Unique Sensitivity of Healthcare Cleaning
The need for cleanliness does not get much more serious than a healthcare facility. It is a sensitive cleaning environment different from most other commercial buildings. Here bacteria can be deadly. From the abundance...
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Professional Healthcare Cleaning Requires Extra Effort
Healthcare cleaning can be a matter of life or death. Healthcare Acquired Infections (HAI) are the cause of over 1.7 million infections each year and over 100,000 deaths. Although these numbers seem staggering ...
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Hospital Cleaning Can Save Lives
You clean your house. You scrub the floors. You dust the shelves. You clean it so that it will look tidy and organized; hospital cleaning is done to save lives. How clean is clean enough...
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Healthcare Cleaning Standards at Their Highest
As an industry leader Jani-King promotes awareness for healthcare cleanliness wherever and whenever possible. Their Clean Hands-Clean Surfaces program is Jani-King’s community awareness plan designed to educate every member ...
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Training and Experience Come First In Hospital Cleaning
Jani-King knows hospital cleaning goes beyond the sanitizing and disinfecting of materials and equipment and to help with hospital cleanliness they have developed a program to increase awareness. Clean Hands-Clean Surfaces...
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Healthcare Cleaning and the Power of Doing Something Well
There are many kinds of cleaning companies today, the majority being general office and office building companies that very successfully dust and vacuum, scrub bathroom sinks and kitchen floors. Others choose to operate specialty cleaning ...
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The Personally Rewarding World of Hospital Cleaning
Unlike general office cleaning, hospital cleaning requires extra precaution and adherence to cleaning protocols not necessary in general cleaning. Extra precaution must be taken with germs, viruses and blood-borne pathogens, brought in by ...
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Healthcare Cleaning—A Matter of Life and Death
Healthcare cleaning is one of the most important areas that Jani-King covers and they do not take this area lightly. The Center for Disease Control reports that healthcare associated infections (HAI’s) account for over 1.7 million infections each year and over 100,000 deaths. Jani-King franchise owners, who wish to clean a healthcare facility, whether it is a hospital, outpatient facility, medical office or surgery center, are required to complete Jani-King’s Healthcare Cleaning Certification Program...
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Hospital Cleaning Done Right Can Save Lives
You want to do the best job possible as a hospital cleaning company, and training your cleaning technicians is over half of the battle against HAI’s (healthcare associated infections). Jani-King’s healthcare cleaning team has gone through a rigorous training program to provide them with all of the necessary knowledge to clean hospitals...
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Healthcare Cleaning and a Better Way to a Germ Free Day
One place where cleaning must be close to perfection is at a hospital. The cleaning devices that are used in retail are basically the same that are used in a hospital. When providing healthcare cleaning, you must make sure that all of your cleaning devices are cleanly stored as to not spread any germs in a place that must remain constantly sterile...
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Hospital Cleaning and the Surprising Secret of a Positive First Impression
Just about everyone can agree that our first impression is usually the one that counts, whether it’s in looking for a car, buying a new house, or checking out a new restaurant. A great impression means the car is polished to perfection, the house is pristine, and the restaurant sparkles. Most favorable impressions are based on how clean everything looks, poor impressions, on how dirty a place is. And nowhere is this more evident than in a hospital...
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Hospital Cleaning Makes a Difference
Here are some unnerving statistics. According to the Center for Disease Control, 1.7 million infections are acquired each year as a result of hospitalization, resulting in 100,000 deaths. Bacteria and viruses can be transmitted by simply touching doorknobs, bedrails, elevator buttons, even trash. Environmental infection is the fourth major cause of death in the U.S, and it’s unfortunate. With correct hospital cleaning procedures, deaths like these may be reduced...
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Healthcare Cleaning and a Career in Saving Lives
At some point in everyone’s life, 99% of us have some reason to visit a hospital. For most, it’s a visit to the emergency room for a cold that has become a little something more, or a broken toe, or a bug bite. For an unfortunate few, it’s a little more serious. For everyone, though, the smell of disinfectant in the air reassures us that we are in a clean environment. Healthcare cleaning in a hospital or a medical facility has additional...
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Concerns in Hospital Cleaning and Solutions
Recent statistics regarding Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI) has drawn much attention to the processes and procedures used in hospital cleaning. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has reported that one in 20 patients contract HAI’s during their hospital stay. Administrators and leaders in the healthcare industry have begun further exploring cleaning for infection and control as well as the environmental impacts of current cleaning processes and products...
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Controlling for Infections with Healthcare Cleaning
An estimated $20 billion is spent annually in the United States to treat hospital acquired infections (HAI). The shocking announcement comes from the Center for Disease Control (CDC), which has studied the growing concern surrounding HAI’s. HAI’s are caused by various types of bacteria, fungi, and viruses while patients are in the hospital. Oftentimes, they have devastating and fatal consequences; and while these numbers have brought the issue to the forefront, there is more research to be done. The danger of HAI’s sheds light on its causes, prevention and healthcare cleaning...
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Shocking Stats Magnify Hospital Cleaning and Infections
In 2007, the happiest moment of one woman’s life quickly turned into one of her worst. During her hospital stay to give birth to her second child, her C-section wound became infected with a bacterium that invades the blood, muscle or lungs, and can cause severe diseases. She did not have the infection upon admission to the hospital. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that one out of every 20 hospitalized patients will acquire an infection there...
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Healthcare Cleaning and the Right Hospital
When patients enter a hospital, they usually assume that they’ll leave healthier than when they arrived. And they certainly shouldn’t expect that the facility will make them sicker. Unfortunately, due in part to poor healthcare cleaning, patients can contract Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI’s) during their hospital stay. In fact, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that one of every 20 patients contract an infection annually while hospitalized, 100,000 of whom will die from it. Clean and healthy hospitals make extraordinary efforts to prevent these infections, and it’s important that you find the ones that do...
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Jani-King’s Healthcare Cleaning Contributes to Healthy Communities
Our healthcare systems are extremely vital to the prosperity of our communities. Without them, the well-being of our neighborhoods would deteriorate and it would become nearly impossible for them to survive. The many hands that contribute to the functionality of these facilities are often overlooked; healthcare cleaning is one of them. Jani-King understands the stakes are higher when it comes to health, so they provide the very best, from the specialists to the equipment to the processes...
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Effective Hospital Cleaning helps Prevent Infection
Hospitals are where patients go to become better, not more ill. Unfortunately, due in part to less than superior hospital cleaning, hospitals harbor infections that can result in serious illnesses and even deaths of patients and workers. While effective hospital cleaning improves the facility aesthetically, its most important benefit is the role it plays in preventing such infections...
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Effective Healthcare Cleaning Can Change Lives
In the last five years, healthcare cleaning has become an increasingly important topic in the healthcare sector. Cleanliness in healthcare facilities is crucial for daily operation and prevention of HIA’s or Healthcare Associated Infections...
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Quality Hospital Cleaning Saves Lives
Did you know that many infections are contracted after a patient is admitted into the hospital? Cleaning methods in a hospital should be the most stringent of any commercial building to prevent the spread of such infection...
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The Importance of Healthcare Cleaning
Choosing the right cleaning professional can be the difference between life and death in the healthcare industry. Ineffective cleaning can lead to the spread of infections. As deaths contributed to Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI) have risen, cleanliness levels in the healthcare industry have been put under scrutiny. In fact, some states now require healthcare providers to make infection rates public. Administrators are on high alert for expert cleaning companies trained and equipped to meet and exceed government regulations. These are two characteristics experts in healthcare cleaning share...
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What Everyone Should Know about Hospital Cleaning
How clean is clean in a hospital? The faint scent of industrial strength chemicals and bright white floors may inspire confidence. However, what the eye can’t see often causes the greatest harm. Improper sanitization methods create a breeding ground for dangerous pathogens. Hospital cleaning that fails to meet industry standards and government regulation is at the root of high infection rates. Because infection can lead to death, cleanliness is a top priority for hospitals...
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The Necessity for Hospital Cleaning
Do you ever wonder just how clean the hospital you’re staying at is, or perhaps the fate of the last person who occupied the room you’re staying in? When considering these ideas does it ever cross your mind how often hospitals are cleaned and how often they are inspected? The severity of hospital cleaning is obvious, but how do we know we can trust the people doing the job?..
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Jani-King Handles the Dangers of Healthcare Cleaning
Every year thousands of hospital deaths occur due to healthcare associated infections which are deemed preventable. Due to the amount of preventable deaths that occur from these infections, hospitals have begun to post their infection and death rates. This information has become available to prospective patients to help determine their decision on whether or not they would like to be admitted to a certain facility...
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