Housekeeping Department
The housekeeping department is responsible for the first impression that a patient and his family or a visitor will have when they first enter the Hospital. Hence this department is given much attention and concern through multiple steps, the most important of them are:
- Setting up plans.
- Allocating goals and duties of housekeeping.
- Suggesting work policies and procedures within the department to be validated by direct supervisors.
- Insuring that there are no obstacles to guaranty smooth workflow.
The department’s work standards
The most important goals and work standards pursued by housekeeping in 57357 are the preservation of the highest level of cleanliness and hygiene as well as the continuous follow-up on latest findings worldwide, especially that which is related to quality and infection control. This is because of the vital role of housekeeping in a Hospital setting that treats children with cancer where their duties go beyond looking after rooms and floors cleaning, to being an effective factor in the healing process of patients. For the sake of illustration: a child is receiving treatment in the in-patient section of the Hospital and he or she gets exposed to infection during his hospitalization, his treatment duration and accordingly the period of his stay in the Hospital will be longer, which affects his health and psychological condition and raises the cost of treatment.
Hence, keeping rooms, floors, and clinics clean and sterilized helps raising cure rate. It also enables treating a larger number of patients, as the quick in-patient dismissal of hospital enables admitting a new patient.
The department’s policies
The housekeeping department in 57357 applies a number of policies the most important of which are:
- The work team must be on the highest level of training and experience.
- Offering continuous training programs for old and new workers, and testing them constantly to determine the level of what they grasped from training.
- Cleaning in 57357 is subject to precise and continuous evaluation in every corner of the Hospital.
The role of the department
In addition to cleaning and sterilizing the entire Hospital, clinics, and patients admission halls, housekeeping has a different duty with respect to the in-patient section, where the work team cleans it three times a day, in addition to following different procedures between one patient and another, where curtains and everything touchable in the room is exchanged with new sterilized ones. Walls, ceiling, and electricity keys are also cleaned.
Materials used by the department
The materials used in cleaning and sterilizing are of the best worldwide certified quality. Moreover, every part of the Hospital has its special cleaning material, especially the in-patient rooms which are cleaned with the best sterilization products to guaranty protecting patients from any possibility of infection.