It is critical that medical clinics maintain a clean environment to run their daily operations. When clinics fail to maintain cleanliness standards, patients and staff simply get sick. Hospital Acquired Infections spread easily, while the short and long-term financial impacts are significant. Clinic managers are often faced with the challenge of choosing the right outsourced medical cleaning company or having a properly staffed in-house operation.
Five Cleaning Challenges Medical Clinics Face
1 - Your Outsourced Cleaning Companies Fail to Keep Your Clinics Clean
Too often, cleaning companies take on cleaning medical clinics with little to no experience. Frequently they provide prices which are too good to be true. These companies clean with no customer specific detailed cleaning procedures, unsupervised cleaners and nonexistent corrective actions systems. This leads to the failure of out sourced cleaning companies. Small cleaning issues multiply over time, leaving your clinic dirty. This is compounded by poor / no communication of customer concerns to the cleaning teams.
2 - Emergency Cleaning - Due to Patients
Often, clinics are presented with patients with gastrointestinal illnesses and accidents happen. This can require the cleaning and de-contaminating of lobby chairs, carpets, floors, exam tables and at times … entire rooms. In house staff can struggle to resolve these incidences due to time, equipment and proper OSHA bio hazard training.
3 - Emergency Labor Requirements
What happens when inclement weather, natural disasters and facility breakdowns require 25, 50 or 100 workers to be brought in or extra workers are needed at 2:00am? Clinic managers don't have the staffing resources necessary to resolve the situations and scramble to find solutions.
4 - Daily in House Cleaning and Labor Shortages
The daily cleaning of clinic exam rooms, nurses stations, offices, restrooms, dining areas and hallways can be challenging. The cleaning must be performed daily but at times there are just not enough cleaners with in house managed cleaning teams. Vacations and call outs of just a few cleaning staff can paralyze the best in house teams.
5 - Periodic Clinic Maintenance Budgeting
It is not realistic to think that your nightly cleaning team can handle the detailed work needed to keep a clinic clean. The stripping and waxing, carpet shampooing, window cleaning and high dusting require special utility crews, who have the skill sets needed to perform these services. Too often, these services are not properly budgeted into the cleaning contracts, leaving clinic manager surprised when prices are provided after contracts are started.
Cleaning Solutions Clinic Managers Can Use
Diversified Building Services has been providing cleaning solutions to clinic management teams for 30 years. We understand the challenges and can provide the needed solutions. Our team cleans 800+ clinical exam rooms nightly including: Hospitals, Community Health Centers, Multispecialty Groups, Orthopedic Centers, Dental Clinics, and Ophthalmic clinics are just a few of our clients’ facilities we clean nightly. With 30 years of experience, DBS has developed clinic-specific cleaning procedures to ensure customer satisfaction. From quality green chemicals to specialized equipment, Diversified delivers all on all the details.
Clinic Labor Solutions
Starting at $20 Hour
Cleaners Supplied by DBS
Cost-effective labor rates
Planned scheduled shifts
On demand request available
Day porter services
1st shift cleaning
2nd shift cleaning
3rd shift cleaning
On site supervisors and shift leaders
Set up and break down of tables/chairs for events
Social events – trash removal
Pre, during, and post event clean up
Nightly Cleaning Services
Cost Effective Monthly Rates
Multi-Level Supervised Cleaning
Comply with Joint Commission Standards
Detailed Systems Approach Cleaning
5-7 Times a Week Services
QC Inspections of Your Buildings
Fast Corrective Actions Implemented
Uniformed Workers
Background Checks for Safety and Security
Fully Insured & Simple Billing
Emergency Clean Up Services
Body Fluid De-Contamination
Virus and Bacterial Disinfecting
Shampooing of Lobby Carpet and Chairs
Electrostatic Sanitation of Entire Rooms
Full Bio Hazzard Cleaning
24/7/365 Response
OSHA Trained Workers