Is your environment killing you?

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.

“As long as you love and learn, you are young. The day you stop loving and learning you become old”

Owls are known for their wisdom and TOMI's new owl mascot stands for Wisdom along with Online Writing and Learning. So I will do the writing and hopefully you (the reader) will do the Learning. This OWL blog will educate you on indoor environments, green living along with other issues that will be life changing. So please help and forward this blog to all your friends.