The following is a list of hospitals with the highest proportion of patients who reported their room and bathroom were “always” clean. Data is taken from CMS’ Hospital Compare. Hospitals with ...

In addition to documenting the cleaning of its general areas, Lakeland (Fla.) Surgical & Diagnostic Center also ensures cleaning of its ORs and procedure rooms are properly documented. The ASC ...

MIDDLETOWN — Not many places can boast a multilingual cleaning staff, but Lorrie Tuttle was tired of seeing hospital patients frustrated by a communication gap. “I went to do a daily patient room ...

Hospital room and surface decontamination has become an increasingly important point of focus for infection preventionists, but that wasn’t always the case. A manuscript published in the Annals of ...

The checklist has the user identify whether high-touch room surfaces, those sites most frequently contaminated and touched by patients and/or healthcare workers, have been cleaned, not cleaned or are ...

Each time someone is discharged from one of the eight St. Luke’s Health hospitals in the Houston area, a housekeeper has about 45 minutes to clean and disinfect the room so it can be ready for the ...