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Dust Barriers for Healthcare Renovations: STARC vs. Competitors
Updated Sept. 3, 2024 When hospitals undertake renovation projects, ensuring the health and safety of patients, visitors, and staff is paramount. For Infection Preventionists, Facilities Managers, Project Managers and others, selecting dust barriers that exceed ICRA Class IV requirements, seamlessly blend into the existing ...
Temporary Dust Walls on the Job Site
Construction Managers and contractors who work in the healthcare industry recognize that dust poses serious health risks at hospitals and healthcare facilities during remodeling and renovation.
What are Healthcare Acquired Infections and How to Prevent Them?
Healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs) have been a major problem in patient safety for decades, affecting 5 to 10 percent of patients who enter healthcare facilities each year.
Construction Barriers in Hospitals: Your Questions Answered
Updated August 2021 IPs, FMs, or healthcare contractors may have heard of the Safety Risk Assessment or SRA, and most start to think about the Infection Control Risk Assessment or ICRA only in the days before construction begins. Both should be integral parts of the design and planning phases of construction and renovation ...
What is an Anteroom in a Hospital?
Updated: August 2021 Modular wall systems not only demonstrated their usefulness in handling the huge number of COVID-19 patients since the start of the pandemic but also showed how hospitals could deal rapidly with infrastructural needs in other large-scale healthcare emergencies while minimizing disruption to their ...
Achieving a Safer Jobsite with Temporary Wall Systems
Updated July 29, 2024 Maintaining cleanliness on a construction site is crucial, especially during renovations in sensitive environments like hospitals or data centers. The presence of dust and debris not only poses significant health and environmental risks but also fails to comply with OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health ...
Healthcare Contractors: Want to Increase Patient Satisfaction?
Building contractors who specialize or are involved with hospital, nursing home, or any type of medical facility renovations, additions, repairs, or remodeling should be well aware that patient satisfaction with healthcare service is a top priority for hospitals.