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MRSA, for 20 launderings. For $1.50 per day, per person, healthcare workers can eliminate their uniforms as a fomite for colonization at home and at work, reduce the risk of cross- contamination to surfaces, patients, visitors and staff, and take an active role in the antimicrobial steward- ship of their healthcare facility. Rigorous labo-
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ratory testing has proven that when properly mixed and applied, RHP provides a 99.999 per- cent kill of MRSA and many other pathogens, even after 20 launderings.”
In a similar vein, Sean Morham, Co-Founder, CEO and Board Member of Applied Silver, sug- gests facilities consider SilvaClean when laun- dering patient textiles. This antimicrobial silver ion solution is designed to protect them during storage, handling and use. “The core technology is a water-based ionic silver treatment for tex- tiles, applied during each laundry cycle, which provides continuous antimicrobial performance during the time between launderings,” explained Morham, noting several in vitro studies and a multi-hospital study currently undergoing peer review.3
According to Silva- Clean literature, silver ions in the product bind to surface proteins and disrupt bacteria cell pro- duction by stopping the transfer of nutrients and energy, basically suffo- cating the cell to inhibit reproduction.
The Healthcare Laun- dry Accreditation Council (HLAC) announced recently that “there is ‘legiti- mate and increasing concern’ of a ‘widespread’ and ‘unsafe’ industry practice regarding the back-and-forth on exchange carts of unused healthcare textiles (HCTs) between hospitals and laundries.”3
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They say while The Joint Com-
mission provides direction on the safe transport of unused linens to the healthcare facility it does not address the return of unused linen from the healthcare facility back to the healthcare laundry. “Mixing unused, unprocessed linens with clean linens and returning all of them to the hospital is a failure of functional separation as is defined in our 2016 Standards,” said Board President John Scherberger. “However, with regard to exchange cart systems, there seems to be some confusion that we will address and endeavor to clarify.”
Maintaining air and water quality OR humidity levels are also critical. Steve Ulm, director of marketing, SEMCO LLC, says keeping relative humidity levels below
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