We all know where these HAI’s (Healthcare Associated Infections) are breeding, living and waiting to ruin the day of another defenseless patient or hospital personnel. We have many studies showing that traditional cleaning  just doesn’t cut it today. Whether it be the increase in population,the ease of traveling across continents with these bugs hitchhiking on you or just a developed  resistant to antibiotics that has enabled these Superbugs bugs to gain a choke hold on us.

A study involving commonly touched surfaces (bed rails, telephones, call buttons, toilet seats, wheelchairs and bedside tables) in patient rooms with C. Diff found that after routine cleaning, 78% of the surfaces remained contaminated with C. Diff spores.

A separate study of 49 New England hospitals found 25% of OR surfaces were overlooked by current cleaning teams.

Another study demonstrated that MRSA (Staph) lives outside of the human body for 9 months. Hepatitis C lives a least 16 hours and up to 4 days. Clostridium Difficile (C-Diff) a current major problem in todays healthcare setting lingers and lives 70 plus days and Acinetobacter baumannii lives up to 20 plus days.

A recent study, published in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS ONE, addresses just Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA infections associated with surgery.

"Our estimates of the financial burden of surgical site infections due to MRSA are unique," Deverick Anderson of Duke University Medical Center and colleagues wrote.

"Surgical site infections due to MRSA led to charges in excess of $19 million for the group of study hospitals," they added. "Surgical site infections due to MRSA led to: 7-fold increased risk of death. 35-fold increased risk of hospital readmission, adding more than 3 weeks of additional hospitalization. Along with $60,000 of additional charges added to a hospital bill, compared to uninfected controls."

So what are we to do? We have tried hand wipes, adding additional cleaning personnel, the use of newer disinfection products and  zero infection protocols but still pathogens are winning .Patients are dying at a clip of 271 people a day from healthcare associated infections.

 Well TOMI Environmental Solution has your Solution! We are in the Hydrogen Peroxide Space, but not just disinfection, We at TOMI expect our product to leave the surface we clean, Sterile!  Hydrogen Peroxide, is the new buzz word around the infection disease control world and APIC. But TOMI’s technology does NOT take hours to decontaminate and sterilize a room, and you don’t have to shut down the room and not occupy it for a shift, and you don’t have to evacuate the occupants next door because of excessive noise,or have to remove delicate equipment and computers because the solution you are using is made up of 30-35 percent hydrogen peroxide and may be corrosive ,or that you have concerns that the sterility of a soft goods package has been violated and after all that, you may only get a 99.99 percent or 4 log kill, that is disinfection.

We at TOMI recommend routine use and application of our product on bed and bed rails,telephones, cabinets inside and out, call buttons, bedside tables, corners of rooms, toilet seats, handles, cafeteria seats, physical therapy equipment, hand rails, hallways, OR surfaces, wheelchairs, Now you should have it, One employee, One technology, TOMI’s Solution, net result, Zero infection rate, at least zero infection rate from outside the body.

How do we accomplish this? TOMI Environmental Solution, solution uses less than a 7 percent hydrogen peroxide in an aerosol mist, that is applied to all those hard to reach and difficult to clean areas. The mist is delivered via a gun that you aim and shoot. Thats right, like a video game, but you always win. Oh, by the way it kills on contact, leaves no residue and is a six log kill,that is 99.9999 percent, that is what healthcare should demand and that is what healthcare must demand. Call TOMI Environmental Solutions at 310-275-2255 or check us out on the web at www.tomiesinc.com.