Cleaning Compliance Program
Culturewell’s Cleaning Compliance Program identifies cleaning and environment of care management gaps and empowers continuous systemic improvement to stop outbreaks before they start.
Facility cleanliness and infection prevention activities are directly correlated to patient infection risk. Traditional environmental surveillance technologies like ATP, traditional swab cultures, and PCR are tools poorly suited to the needs of healthcare environmental testing due to poor sensitivity in low bioburden environments like clean healthcare rooms, do not distinguish between living and dead microbes, and you must know what you are looking for.
Culturewell identifies gaps in cleaning processes by testing surfaces in healthcare facilities for germs.
Designed specifically to help enhance their cleaning effectiveness, strategically deploy resources, and protect patients, Culturewell provides periodic third-party cleaning audits that empower Infection Prevention, Environmental Services and Logistics leaders with:
- Industry-leading detection limits to identify risky germ hotspots remaining after rooms have been cleaned.
- A regular cadence of actionable risk-based insights, trends, patterns to power continuous improvement initiatives such as targeted EVS training and other quality improvement programs.
- An infection-risk based approach for determining which cleaning gaps to prioritize plus expert recommendations for evidence-based decisions to reduce the transmission of HAIs throughout the facility.
- Culturewell heat maps to facilitate collaborative action across Infection Prevention, Environmental Services, Facilities, and Nursing teams to improve work practices and behaviors, before patients are hurt.
- Insights from third-party observers to help improve cleanliness survey scores, which are often vague, leaving healthcare leaders confused and patients feeling dissatisfied.