| In Practice | Hygiene in Hospitals
Large services are cleaned with the Hako Scrubmaster B115 R – including
the hospital dining room. Photos: Kontext
Recovery in an idyllic atmosphere: the Klinik Bavaria in Kreischa was built
in 1994 in the style of the Saxon Baroque. Photo: Klinik Bavaria
Hospitals: Sensitive cleaning needed
Challenge for service providers
Since October 2015, a Nuremberg service provider is responsible for maintenance cleaning
in the Klinik Bavaria in Kreischa. The client and service provider have now become a well-established
team; together, they create a hygienic and pleasant atmosphere.
Dirty floors, stained beds, negligent disinfection – such flagrant
hygiene breaches in hospitals repeatedly provide journalists
with
fodder for huge headlines and negative reports. Often, these serious
allegations cannot simply be minimized in front of microphones
and television cameras! Hardly any area in building cleaning is
more sensitive than the healthcare sector.
“Patients, those in need
of care and their family members
judge the level of cleaning
to be
just as important as the nursing
care, the therapeutic
measures
and
the food,” confirms the German
Association
for Hospital Hygiene.
This goes much further
than simply
ensuring a good atmosphere.
Inadequate hygiene is the main cause of infection with resistant
germs in hospitals.
Combating
this requires increased attention,
well-trained cleaning
and nursing
staff as well as meticulous
compliance
with regulations.
Hygiene and cleanliness have priority
The Klinik Bavaria in Kreischa near Dresden, one of the leading
rehab centers in Germany, is a hospital where all of this works
very well. Patients from all over Germany seek out this impressive
facility
– which is architecturally reminiscent of the Saxon Baroque
– for treatment. The clinic’s spectrum of services ranges from
intensive medicine and early rehabilitation, follow-up treatment
as well as inpatient and outpatient therapy. A distinction is made
between the rehab area and the professional and private clinic,
which specializes on weaning long-term intensive care patients
from ventilators or preparing them for mechanical ventilation at
home. “The hygiene regulations are significantly stricter here than
in the rehab area,” explains Anett Wambach, Business Manager
Hygiene in Klinik Bavaria Rehabilitations KG. She is responsible
for the hygiene team that, in consultation with all clinic departments,
works to ensure perfect conditions.
Anett Wambach and her team have been supported by the Dorfner
Group since October 2015. Maintenance cleaning and waste
management
are covered in House 2 of the clinic by the Nuremberg
service provider. In two shifts, approximately 45 employees under
the supervision of object manager Silko Kleinert
and two foremen
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