Every department in every healthcare facility can play a role in preventing hospital-acquired infections — especially environmental services departments, since they’re responsible for cleaning surfaces and objects that can increase the risk of infection, according to an article on the CleanLink website.
Suppliers can play a key role in HAI prevention as they are the ones who can properly outfit and train the cleaning personnel.
“One well-trained housekeeper who knows what she’s doing, and has the right chemistry and tools to do her job will prevent more infections than a roomful of doctors can cure,” said Darrel Hicks, author of “Infection Prevention for Dummies.”
“We save lives all the time; we just don’t know whose lives we’ve saved because we did the right thing at the right time and in the right way.”
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