Alex King explains how important the housekeeping crews at hospitals are during the coronavirus pandemic
Hospital housekeepers 1.7.21
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We know doctors and nurses are heroes...saving lives through the pandemic... but there's another group...quietly helping fight.
Their tools?
Mops and sanitizer.
Abc 36's alex king explains how important hospital housekeeping crews are.
Chase: "we've trained for this.
We have policies and procedures in place, let get those out.
Let's get things implemented."
When covid-19 began to spread... chase giboney says the environmental services department at uk hospital jumped into communicable disease mode.
Chase: "a full clean every day... usually in the morning and then they'll receive an evening freshen."
He says that's going back over high touched areas...some public spaces can be cleaned three to twelve times a day.
The environmental services department has a little over four hundred employees working to keep patients, doctors, nurses and visitors safe.
Chase: "while we're not directly in there giving care, we're not taking vitals, but we're providing a clean environment.
If someone were to come into a hospitala nd get an infection... i mean it's one of any number of pathogens can cause illness and hurt your road to recovery."
He says some of that is up to you.
His teams can clean the hospital...but you need to clean your home.
Owner of top mops cleaning maryann miller says the pandemic has kept her employees busy.
Maryann: "we've noticed with our customers, people are using their homes now than they ever have been and so that is a big change for us.
They're often home when we're there.
Just trying to follow our systems but be creative in the way that we can help clients have a more relaxed restful life even in the midst of all this."
She says her employees adapted to the major changes by adding in a hospital grade disinfectant...and ppe equipment to keep everyone healthy and safe.
It's a lot of responsibility...but just part of the job for giboney, miller and so many others.
Alex king,