Faced with one of the worst flu seasons in recent memory, medical facilities across the US are on high alert for infection control. This year’s influenza epidemic of the H3N2 virus has proven a major challenge for the healthcare sector, and many facilities have taken a closer look at their approach to medical facility cleaning and disinfection in response.
At JAN-PRO®, we’ve seen a spike in demand for our MedMetrix® medical facility cleaning program, with particular interest in our EnviroShield® surface disinfection system.
Recently featured on Good Morning America, the EnviroShield® system uses one of the safest hospital-grade disinfectants on the market. What’s more, EnviroShield® offers an exclusive, ionizing application system, which ensures total surface coverage.
Taken together, these features make EnviroShield® uniquely well-suited to medical facility cleaning and disinfection. If you’re reviewing your current sanitation and infection control practices, here’s a closer look at why EnviroShield® could be the perfect fit for your needs.
Medical Facility Cleaning & Disinfection with EnviroShield
The EnviroShield® disinfection system was developed exclusively for JAN-PRO cleaning services. We set out to solve a challenge faced by other disinfection technologies: poor surface coverage. Traditional disinfection systems struggle to adequately eliminate contagions from uneven surfaces, hard-to-reach spaces, and woven materials. EnviroShield® addresses this challenge through an ionizing application system.
To ensure total surface coverage, the EnviroShield® system releases bursts of misted disinfectant, imparting a negative charge on every particle of the disinfectant solution. Because of this charge, the mist literally wraps itself around treated surfaces, reaching areas that other disinfection systems can’t access — including crevices, hard-to-reach spots, the undersides of equipment, and textile fibers.
Equally important to EnviroShield® and its role in medical facility cleaning is its disinfectant. EnviroShield® uses a non-toxic, chlorine dioxide disinfectant, which sanitizes surfaces on contact and eliminates 99.999% of pathogens within 10 minutes of application. EnviroShield® offers full-spectrum disinfection, including MRSA, VRE, and HIV, e-coli and salmonella, and different strains of the influenza virus.
Despite its effectiveness against these pathogens, EnviroShield® is completely non-toxic and non-irritating to human beings and the environment. The disinfectant used in EnviroShield® is non-flammable, non-corrosive, non-allergenic, and non-toxic. In fact, it boasts the EPA’s safest toxicity rating (category IV) for skin contact, eye contact, ingestion, and inhalation. This makes EnviroShield® completely safe for use in medical facility cleaning, posing zero risk to patients, staff, and the environment.
EnviroShield® is just one component of JAN-PRO medical facility cleaning services. Through JAN-PRO, you can be sure that your facility meets or exceeds all CDC, AORN, OSHA, and Joint Commission standards. Under the MedMetrix® system, JAN-PRO owner-operators are rigorously trained and tested in medical facility cleaning best practices. Particular attention is paid to sanitation and infection control in medical-specific environments, such as patient rooms, surgical suites, and medical waiting areas.
Learn more about medical facility cleaning and disinfection services and request a FREE estimate from your local JAN-PRO by calling 866-355-1064 today!