Healthcare Stories

What Correctional Facility Administrators Need to Know About Hospital Floorcare

To ensure proper inmate health services correctional administrators must keep floors clean and healthy.

Cleaning Tips for Healthy Patient Rooms

There is a better way to protect patients and staff from infections in the hospital, clinic and doctor’s office. Here are cleaning tips for healthy patient rooms.

UNLV Student Recreation and Wellness Center (SRWC): Empowerment Through Knowledge, Health, and Cleaning

William Mattos, SRWC Custodial Supervisor, a 30+ year cleaning veteran, applies the empowerment mindset to the cleaning staff of 15 that maintains SRWC facilities comprising 184,000 square feet – with health and safety as top priorities.

Healthcare Cleaning Best Practices

Healthcare cleaning demands attention, precision and a well-trained staff. A poorly-cleaned facility poses a risk to patients, medical staff and visitors, while cleaning the facility incorrectly poses a risk to your janitorial staff. Keep the public and y

Trash Compacting in Custodial - Good Things in Small Packages

Trash compacting with onboard vacuum-pressure rather than using a hand to press down trash, takes Kaivac's systems to a new level.

How to Clean Restrooms: The Definitive Guide to Restroom Cleaning

Proper restroom cleaning is essential, no matter the building type . Well-maintained facilities protect the public from germs, viruses and other dangerous pathogens. But the benefits go even further. Clean, fresh smelling restrooms delight occupants and e

How an ATP Rapid Monitoring System Can Help Prevent the Spread of the Flu

Many of us are not sure what an ATP system is or how it works. As a result, we asked Terry Schawe, head of research and development at Kaivac, to bring us up to speed about this technology.

Kaivac Cleaning Equipment Maintenance Tips

Cleaning equipment maintenance is too important to overlook, especially for your Kaivac No-Touch Cleaning or OmniFlex system. Well-maintained machines last longer, perform optimally and even smell better.

Hands Off: Touchpoint Cleaning to Prevent Disease

While it’s true that restroom floors, toilets and urinals harbor pathogens, they’ve got nothing on light switches, sink taps, toilet flushers and stall door handles. These touchpoints host a surprising amount of dirt, viruses and bacteria and, because the

Cleaning Up After a Norovirus Outbreak

Dealing with norovirus and norovirus outbreaks and what cleaning contractors should know to clean-up a vomiting incident caused by norovirus.

Get Healthy, Stay Healthy: Cleaning Hospital Floors to Prevent Hospital Acquired Infections

The strategy for fighting HAIs includes disinfecting frequently touched hospital surfaces; think bed rails and call buttons. But what about the floor? Studies show that cleaning hospital floors is key to preventing hospital acquired infections.

How to Maximize your Restroom Investment

Not only are they expensive to build, restrooms are expensive to maintain. They must be deep cleaned daily and, depending on use, stocked and spot cleaned several times a day, adding hourly costs to you bottom line

Cleaning Myths Busted: “Instant Acting” Cleaning Solutions Aren’t So Instant

It might be tempting to buy a time saving product like an instant acting cleaning solution, but beware. If claims sound too good to be true, they probably are.

KaiTutor™: A Better Way to Train Custodians

Well-trained employees are also empowered employees. They know the technique and equipment and can even troubleshoot potential problems. This leads to fewer service calls, better results and happier clients.

You’re Doing It Wrong: Three Steps to Disinfect Properly

Microbe-infested surfaces can spread influenza, gastrointestinal illness and more. Follow these three steps to keep your facilities clean and clients safe.

Hospital Acquired Illness and Our Pets

Human patients are not the only victims of HAI. Cats and dogs and other household pets get them too, but in this case, they acquire them in veterinary hospitals.

Test Your Knowledge on Floor Spills

We’re going to test your knowledge on what to do when you see a spill on a floor

Staying Well: The Importance of Exam Room Cleaning

Usually associated with hospitals, long-term care facilities and other acute care locations, nosocomial infections also occur at the doctor’s office, particularly in the exam room. This makes proper exam room cleaning an important part of every healthcare

Knowing the Unknowable: Measuring Cleanliness

Dangerous pathogens are invisible, odor-free and thrive perfectly well on clean-looking and smelling surfaces. Fortunately, tools for measuring cleanliness give a definitive answer to how clean a surface truly is.

Back to School: The Importance of Custodial Training Programs

A well-trained crew will do their job better, faster and stick around longer. Are you taking training seriously?

Outbreak Prevention Plan: Better than a Cure

There is a whole list of communicable diseases that can bring an organization to its knees. Influenza, strep, norovirus and other gastrointestinal illnesses spread quickly through a business, school, daycare or nursing home with disastrous results. A good

Better Stronger Faster: New Cleaning Technologies Ring in the New Year

Want to know the difference between a flashy add-on and a real upgrade? Here are three new cleaning technologies that are worth the investment.

Science of Salt: How Road Salt Melts Ice and Ruins Floors

Salt corrodes cars and trucks, kills plant life and burns the paw pads of dogs and cats. Just imagine what tracked-in road salts are doing to your floors.

Hospital Cleaning to Prevent Infection

Better hand hygiene and consistent, targeted hospital cleaning promise to cut down on HAIs and limit their human and financial costs.

The Pet Set: Veterinary Clinic Cleaning

Veterinary clinic cleaning for safety and profit.

Semmelweis Lesson – Handwashing as a Hygiene Model

Following the proven principles of effective handwashing will help keep your facility completely clean for healthy results.

Cleaning for Nursing Home Odor Control

With 1.4 million people living in nursing homes as of 2014, nursing home odor control is an important quality of life issue.

Better Cleaning, Better Efficiency: What ISSA Interclean Offers Business Owners

The annual ISSA Interclean show brings business owners the latest in cleaning equipment innovation. Your path to more efficient operations starts here.

Are Automatic Floor Scrubbers Right for Your Business?

Cleaning large floors in any business can be a major challenge. Find out how automatic floor scrubbers can save you time, energy, and money.

How Risk Prevention and Better Cleaning Equipment Go Hand-in-Hand

For companies concerned with risk prevention, investing in better cleaning equipment may be the answer to your problems.

Employee Education for a Cleaner Workplace

Set your business up for success and keep your workplace looking great with an employee education plan. Here's how to get started.

Patient Room Cleaning: How to Make Your Exam Rooms As Germ-Free As Possible

With sick people going in and out of a doctor's office all day, patient room cleaning presents a major challenge. Here's how to keep germs at bay.

Doctor's Office Cleaning: Waiting Rooms

The waiting room of a pediatrician's office is a breeding ground for germs. Here's how to ensure that your doctor's office cleaning process is effective.

Fitness Club Cleaning Checklist: Confronting Germs at the Gym

Fitness club cleaning is difficult because of the constant bacteria transfer in gyms. Here's a checklist and system for custodians to get it right.

Proper Hospital Restroom Cleaning Procedures

Hospital restroom cleaning is crucial in preventing the spread of many common diseases. Kaivac's No-Touch cleaning system is a chemical-free solution.

Cleaning a Nursing Home: What You Need to Know

Cleaning a nursing home properly takes a special approach. Here is how custodial crews should handle this difficult assignment.

Hospital Cleaning Best Practices: How to Keep Patients and Staff Safe

Diseases from hospitals lead to nearly 100,000 deaths per year. A change is in order. Here are seven hospital cleaning best practices to make it happen.

The Health Risks of Cleaning Daycare Centers: A Personal Story

There are many health risks in cleaning and for cleaning workers such as myself, cross-contamination is a very serious problem. I hope by telling you my story it can help you and many other cleaning workers stay healthy.

Slip-and-Fall Accidents More Prevalent In Healthcare Facilities

From outpatient clinics to inpatient hospitals and other healthcare facilities, slip-and-fall accidents caused by wet or poorly maintained floors are a major hazard.

Say Yes to Green Cleaning—as Long as It Is Effective Cleaning

Green cleaning has been one of the most significant developments to hit the professional cleaning industry in years. However, even longtime advocates of environmentally responsible cleaning products and systems acknowledge that all cleaning—whether

Kaivac Introduces New AutoVac System

Kaivac announces that the latest "link" in their popular OmniFlex™

Kaivac Donates No Touch Cleaning System to National Institute of Decontamination Specialists

Kaivac, developer of the No-Touch Cleaning®

Kaivac Equipment NFSI Certified

The National Floor Safety Institute (NFSI) has awarded "High-Traction" product certification to Kaivac's No-Touch Cleaning®

Hospital Goes No-Touch Restroom Cleaning

The University of Southern California Medical Center in East Los Angeles wanted an effective restroom cleaning method.

Restroom Cleaning: Love in the Janitorial Closet (Yes, It Does Happen)

The University of Southern California Medical Center was looking for a more effective restroom cleaning method.

Kaivac Cleaning Challenge: Take the Hospital Infections Quiz

A quiz on hospital infections.

Straight Talk on MRSA

On October 1, 2010, Chicago's Loyola University kicked off an event in honor of the first-ever World MRSA Day, October 2, 2010.

How One Hospital Cleans Without Touching

Nosocomial infections, also known as hospital acquired infections, are a serious and growing problem in hospitals worldwide. 

Maintaining one of the Busiest Hospitals in the Country

USC Medical Center in East Los Angeles, CA, is one of the nation's largest—and busiest—public hospitals. 

Unnoticed but Dangerous

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Hospital Patients Should Ask,

Typically, patients admitted to a hospital room are most concerned about the doctors and nurses that will be attending to them.  However, a new report finds it may be more important to ask, ‘Who was here before me?' According to Dr.

Doctors Have No Way to Treat Growing Bacteria Threat - More Effective Cleaning Appears to be Only Defense

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The Importance of Hygienic Cleaning to Prevent H1N1

This may prove to be a very difficult winter, especially for school-age children, due to expected outbreaks of swine flu (H1N1) in many parts of North America.

Cleaning Standards Urged for Hospitals

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No-Touch Cleaning system provides phenomenal healthcare results

Most administrators in the healthcare industry know that the appearance of their facilities -- especially how well they are cleaned and maintained -- can affect patients' perception of these facilities. A clean, well-maintained and fresh smelling medical center helps patients relax and reinforces the perception that they will receive excellent care at the facility.

Cleaning, Noise, and Healthcare

Noise, or "unwanted sound," is becoming a common problem in all industries, especially healthcare. Thousands of people in all types of work settings experience hearing damage each year.