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18 Aug 2022 2:20 PM | Deleted user

It is important to keep healthcare facilities clean, especially since the general idea of going there is to get better yourself or help someone else heal from their illness or injury.  "Above all else do no harm!"  This is the oath physicians and other medical providers declare when becoming a licensed professional.  It is considered hypocrisy to be getting paid to increase someone's health when one is in fact making the person's health decrease.  At times, a person's declining health cannot be stopped.  However, making sure interventions, such as a hospital stay, don't actually make someone worse is paramount.

Is is impossible to do accomplish this, if there is not a good infection control program in place at healthcare facilities.  Germs are carried into facilities many ways, and infections can be spread even when people don't intend to do so.  Staff members touch surfaces in the facility all day long, and it is important not to transfer one patient's germs to another.  It is also important working in a healthcare facility providing services is safe, or facility employees will be the next patient.  Frequent hand washing, Universal Precautions, the use of personal protective equipment, routine cleaning of the facility, and the use of disinfectants while cleaning all works together to prevent the spread of bacterial and viral pathogens.

Thorough cleaning and disinfection is a foundational service healthcare facilities cannot go with out.  Otherwise, they will do more harm than good.  Contact a IJCSA healthcare cleaning provider today by clicking here https://www.ijcsa.org/Janitorial-Service-Directory-Find-A-Janitorial-Service-JanitorialServices

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