Passavant Area Hospital is committed to providing a clean a germ-free environment for its patients and staff. Through a multi-year gift from the Maurice C. Funk Trust, the hospital was able to purchase a third Tru-D device. “Having a team of Tru-D robots ensures we are providing the safest environment possible

Tru-D is CHI Health Good Samaritan’s latest addition to help fight germs and pathogens. “We were fortunate enough along with four other CHI hospitals in Nebraska to be given one of these pieces of equipment. The main purpose that we will use her is for isolation rooms. Once our patient

With more than 700,000 cases each year and an estimated cost to hospitals of more than $11 billion, healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) pose important challenges to the entire health care industry. However, given young patients’ higher risk of infection, among other factors, children’s hospitals in particular need higher levels of protection

Long-term care (LTC), assisted living and rehabilitation facilities present a unique challenge to infection prevention. One reason being that residents are much more mobile than patients in a hospital, and also because there are many more common or shared spaces. Also to consider are hospital readmissions via cross infection and

At Regional Medical Center in Georgia, the Environmental Services team is working behind the scenes to ensure the facility is as clean as possible for staff and guests. Joselito Tabora, director of environmental services, said surface disinfection is a priority at RMC since germs and viruses can live anywhere. “After