for 13 ORs, 3 Ob-gyn ORs and 3 procedure rooms. "We can't hit all 19
rooms in one evening," says Wendy Ferro-Grant, MSN, MBA, CNOR,
the hospital's executive director of perioperative services and
endoscopy. "So we rotate the units through, and we're able to hit them
every other night."
To pull it off, they have environmental services do a ceiling-to-floor
terminal cleaning in each targeted room, then push the robot in, close
down the room, turn on the machine and move on to start terminal
cleaning other rooms. "So they're processing one room while they're
terminally cleaning another," says Ms. Ferro-Grant.
An automatic reporting system lets her confirm that the schedule is
being followed correctly. "I have a portal I can go to every Monday
morning and get a report for the week on how many rooms were com-
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