A floor care schedule, not a floor care emergency.
Included in the contract, run on a calendar, and scheduled around
your census rather than around ours.
Why it matters more here
The floor is the largest surface in the building and the one your residents are least steady on.
In a commercial building a poor floor is an appearance problem. In a skilled nursing facility it is a fall risk, and falls are the most consequential adverse event in the building.
Bad floor work makes it worse, not better. A strip job that leaves residue, a finish applied too heavily, a wet corridor with no signage and no half-width protocol — each one creates a hazard in the name of appearance. Done properly, the same program produces a floor that is safe underfoot, easy to keep clean daily, and does not look tired on the morning a surveyor walks in.
The program
A calendar, by wing and by night.
Daily
- Dust mopping and damp mopping of resident rooms and common areas
- Auto-scrubbing of corridors
- Entrance matting maintained and dried
- Elevator floors burnished
- Spot and spill response
Scheduled cycles
- Burnishing on a set rotation by wing
- Deep scrub and recoat by area
- Strip and wax by area, on an annual or semi-annual cycle
- Carpet extraction and spot treatment
- Hard-floor deep cleaning in high-soil areas such as lobby restrooms
How it is run
- Scheduled by wing and by night, so no unit loses its corridor
- Signage and half-corridor working to keep a walking route open at all times
- Timed around meal service, therapy and admissions
- Documented by area and date, so you can show what was done and when
On taking over a neglected floor
We price the recovery in the transition, not in month four.
Most facilities we take over have at least one area where the previous program failed — a lobby that was never stripped, a therapy gym with builder's finish still on it, a dining room with three coats too many. We assess and price that recovery work in the transition rather than discovering it in month four.
Start here
Tell us what your facility needs.
We walk the facility with your administrator, director of nursing or environmental services director, review the current scope, the linen position, the condition of the floors and the state of the documentation, and put the whole scope in writing.