Boost HCAHPS Scores with Robotic Cleaning

In the healthcare industry, cleaning isn’t just business-critical, it’s life-critical. Healthcare-associated, or nosocomial, infections are the most frequent adverse event in healthcare delivery worldwide, affecting hundreds of millions of patients every year. These infections result in both significant mortality and financial losses for health systems. Many of these infections can be prevented by increasing the standard of environmental cleanliness.

Especially with the elevated standards due to the COVID19 pandemic, rigorous attention to cleanliness allows you to provide the most effective patient-centered care. It ensures a safe environment for treatment and recovery and limits the spread of infection.

Cleanliness also reassures patients and their visitors that your facility is safe. Our research has revealed that 95% of patients and visitors consider cleanliness in healthcare clinics and hospitals to be very or extremely important.

In fact, cleanliness – achieved thoroughly and quietly – is an important component of your Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) Scores.

So how can autonomous (or co-bot) floor scrubbers help meet your top cleaning challenges? Here are some of the key benefits of autonomous floor cleaning equipment from Nilfisk:

• Time savings: Allows staff to focus on higher-value tasks while the machine scrubs and disinfects floors for up to 6 hours on a single charge. Every hour it’s in use frees up an hour of a human cleaner’s time to perform other tasks.
• Exceptional clean: Operators typically miss 15% of a space when cleaning manually. But the unique technology of Nilfisk Liberty machines lets you map out a route that delivers between 98% and 99.5% coverage and precisely retraces the same path again, and again, and again. Consistently giving you exceptional clean.
• Disinfection: Equipped with the UVGI (ultraviolet germicidal irradiation) module, a robotic floor scrubber can remove dirt and debris while simultaneously disinfecting surfaces using UV-C light.
• Cost savings and drier floors: SmartFlow™ Technology automatically reduces the solution flow rate when the machine is slowed down. This extends productivity per tankful, saves costs on water and solution, and reduces the likelihood of slip-and-fall accidents
• Safety: Nilfisk autonomous scrubbers are third-party certified to robotic safety standards, so they can be used safely in populated areas.

Co-bots are no longer science fiction. They are real, reliable, and within reach for today’s healthcare facilities, allowing your cleaning team to clean more space in less time at a lower cost every single day.

To learn how to integrate cleaning into your cleaning process, request a demo now or download "The Co-Bot Floor Cleaning Guide Vol 2 for Healthcare"