At Greenville, S.C.-based Bon Secours St. Francis Health System’s hospitals, the environmental services team began looking for a way to confirm the efficacy of their infection prevention efforts, according to an article on the Health Facilities Management.
The infection prevention team also was looking for a way to to prevent HAIs from cross-transmission.
The ES team and IP professionals looked at adenosine triphosphate (ATP) bioluminescence monitors.
The ATP system allowed the ES team to judge cleaning. No matter what the visual appearance of a horizontal or vertical surface throughout the hospital, ES staff could tell by swabbing and then testing the swab for 15 seconds whether the surface was clean.
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