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Read the passage about hygiene practice at hospital and complete each sentence with the
correct ending.

Hospital Cleaning Best Practices: How to Keep Patients and Staff Safe
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), almost 100,000 people die
every year from diseases acquired inside US hospitals. This scary statistic highlights some of the
failures of traditional cleaning systems. Here are the hospital cleaning best practices suggested by
North American public health officials and Kaivac Cleaning Systems.

1. Wear Gloves Properly part of the cleaning system.
The improper use of gloves Hospital cleaning should
spreads dangerous bacteria. progress from the rooms of
Therefore, it is the healthiest patients to the
recommended to wear restrooms in the wards with
different gloves for the sickest patients.
household tasks, patient
rooms, and jobs involving 4. Avoid Cross-
heavily soiled items. Contamination
Medical personnel have to Probably the biggest
change gloves between challenge for health care
patients, not wearing them in hallways, and cleaning crews is removing and disposing of
change them when moving from a residential contaminants right where they are in the
area to a shared restroom space. In addition, it hospital. Mops and rags are almost guaranteed
is also a must to wash hands after removing to bring bacteria to other parts of the facility.
gloves. Kaivac's No-Touch Cleaning System offers the
most complete solution to this problem. Using
2. Focus on High-Touch Areas a revolutionary technique of spraying,
As in public restrooms and school facilities, vacuuming, and disposing of contaminants, a
every hospital administrator should direct staff cleaning crew can be certain that bacteria
to focus on the most-touched surfaces. These doesn't leave the room.
include bed rails, doorknobs, phones, and
remote controls in patients' rooms. Since more 5. Dispose of Contaminated Materials Safely
people have touched these areas, there is a Knowing how and where to dispose of soiled
greater likelihood of dangerous bacteria. surfaces and solutions should be considered as
important as the cleaning system. Whether you
3. Work from Clean to Dirty Areas have soiled linens, dirty cleaning fluids, or
One of the biggest mistakes in modern contaminated biological materials from clinics,
commercial cleaning is starting from the dirtiest make sure there is no chance for contamination
places, usually the restroom, and moving to during removal. No-touch cleaning makes
cleaner parts of the facility. There are so many disposal of dirty cleaning fluids easier than
chances to spread disease-causing soils from a ever.
bathroom or kitchen when mops and rags are
Adapted from:
https://kaivac.com/a_433-Hospital-Cleaning-Best-Practices-How-to-
Keep-Patients-and-Sta ff-Safe

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