The work that gets deferred until it becomes a finding.
Deep cleaning runs on a cycle in our contracts, because it is
the first thing to disappear from everyone else's.
Room turnover
A discharge is a clinical event with a housekeeping deadline.
An empty bed does not earn. A bed that turns over too fast to be cleaned properly costs far more than the day it saved. We run discharge, transfer and terminal turnover as a defined protocol with a completion sign-off, so admissions knows when the room is genuinely ready and infection prevention knows it was done to standard.
Terminal cleaning after an isolation discharge follows the facility's protocol for that organism, including the disinfectant, the dwell time and the handling of curtains and soft surfaces.
Deep clean cycles
Deep cleaning means the surfaces nobody touches daily.
Most deep cleaning programs in this industry are a mop and a scrub pad. Ours changed the definition on the accounts we run: walls, drawers, closets, dining tables and cubicle and window curtains are part of the cycle, not an extra.
- Walls, doors, frames and high ledges
- Drawers, closets and resident storage furniture
- Cubicle and window curtains taken down, laundered or replaced, and rehung
- Dining tables, chairs and dining room furniture
- Mattresses and bed frames
- Wheelchairs, walkers and shared mobility equipment, to facility protocol
- Soiled rugs and tile in resident and tenant spaces
- Vents, returns and light fixtures within reach
Fixtures and consumables
A broken dispenser is a hand hygiene finding waiting to happen.
Dispensers get replaced when they are broken rather than worked around, because a soap dispenser that has been out for three weeks is a hand hygiene finding waiting to happen. Sharps containers are replaced on the facility's protocol and schedule, and regulated medical waste and sharps handling sits inside our scope rather than beside it.
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.