The Importance of Curtain Cleaning
How would your facility look if it were cleaned on the same schedule as your cubicle curtains?
The standard practice of cleaning curtains when visibly soiled and only after an isolation discharge ensures no routine cleaning schedule and leaves many cubicle curtains often not being cleaned at all.
How many people touch your curtains in a day?
In one day, is it just the patient or is it the patient nurses, doctor, family members, and EVS staff? Unless you ensure your curtains are cleaned regularly, you could be exposing all of those people to potential dangerous pathogens.
Do you Know the Curtain facts?
Curtains and HAIs
205 people a day, the equivalent of an airline crash, will die from hospital-acquired infections (HAI's) such as Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
“Presently more people die with a hospital-acquired infection than the total of breast cancer, AIDS and car accidents combined.” —Dr. Betsey McCaughey, founder of the Committee to Reduce Infectious Deaths.
According to the CDC “there were an estimated 687,000 HAIs in U.S. acute care hospitals in 2015. About 72,000 hospital patients with HAIs died during their hospitalizations.”
