Keep Your Medical Practice In Pristine Condition
All medical facility directors should have a biohazard waste disposal plan prepared and should ensure that exam rooms and common areas within a business are disinfected daily. If a few of the reviews that your patients have submitted have been critical about the cleanliness of your building, use some new strategies to aid with keeping the facility sanitized.
Separate Sterile Supplies And Waste
Disinfectants, sterile gloves and cleaning cloths, and deodorizers should be kept separate from waste materials that need to be removed from the facility. Part of your biohazard plan may involve keeping specialized receptacles in your facility that can be used to dispose of bodily fluids and soiled dressings that were used to treat injuries.
The biohazard containers should never be stored within the same room as other materials that are used for cleaning purposes since contamination could occur. You should use a locking storage cabinet to keep sterile materials and products that contain harsh chemicals.
Never overfill biohazard containers and make sure that your staff members adequately separate the materials, prior to placing them in a biohazard container. Consult with your vendor to have the containers picked up on a routine basis, from the same designated spot.
Outsource Medical Cleaning
If there have been occasions in which some of the cleaning standards were not upheld, outsourcing your medical cleaning needs may be a smart move. A team of biohazard cleaners will not cut corners and will use cleaning materials and equipment that will sterilize flooring, exam tables, restrooms, and common areas.
Cleaning within a medical setting requires much more attention to detail than cleaning a commercial setting where healthy people congregate. Assess the cleaning steps that are currently enforced and use these steps to create a checklist of disinfecting requirements that you would like an outside medical team to perform.
When interviewing potential cleaners that you are thinking about hiring, ask about their previous cleaning responsibilities and the manner in which they usually handle biohazard emergencies and standard cleaning practices. During an interview, request that specific cleaning products are used and ask about the products and equipment that a crew typically uses to perform heavy-duty cleaning applications.
Upon hiring medical cleaners, prepare a schedule that will coincide with the times and dates that the cleaners will service your business. In between medical cleaning sessions, you and your staff members should be prepared to continue disinfecting surfaces as needed.