Five hospitals in Ohio let a research team swab the one surface nobody defends. Not the bed rail, not the call button, not the tray table. The floor. Three hundred and eighteen sites across a hundred and fifty-nine patient rooms, cultured for the organisms infection control actually loses sleep over.
They found them. MRSA, VRE, and *C. difficile*, on floors, routinely.
That part surprises nobody who has thought about it for ten seconds. Floors are walked on. Of course they carry things. The finding that should stop a practice owner mid-sentence is the second one, the part the team went looking for after the cultures came back. They walked through a hundred occupied rooms and counted how often something a human being actually touches was sitting on that floor.
Forty-one of them. Blood pressure cuffs, call buttons, personal items, linens, all resting on a surface treated as scenery. And when someone picked those objects up, the organisms came with them, onto hands, and from hands onto everything hands go next.
Every Columbus dental, medical, wellness, and commercial facility gets the same offer: a free 30-minute ATP walkthrough. We swab your highest-touch surfaces, on the spot, and hand you the readings. No obligation, no pitch required to see the number. Book your free ATP walkthrough or text (614) 758-SPAN.
Erik Kuusisto, Owner
Swiff & Span Cleaning Company