{"id":9312,"date":"2021-04-23T04:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rldatix.com\/en-nam\/?p=9312"},"modified":"2026-04-07T20:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:16:19","slug":"infection-prevention-is-everyones-job-the-important-role-of-facilities-maintenance-teams-onesource","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rldatix.com\/en-nam\/resources\/infection-prevention-is-everyones-job-the-important-role-of-facilities-maintenance-teams-onesource\/","title":{"rendered":"Infection Prevention is Everyone\u2019s Job: The Important Role of Facilities Maintenance Teams – oneSOURCE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This article was created by oneSOURCE (now part of RLDatix) and moved from the previous oneSOURCE website. OneSOURCE is now known as Manufacturer Guidelines<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Author: Travis Horstman, Biomedical Account Manager, Security +<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With COVID finally on the wane, healthcare facilities will gradually be shifting back to pre-pandemic procedures for patient care and personal protection. But while caregiver masking may once again be limited to acute care environments, other infection prevention practices that facilities adopted in 2020 should and will be with us for the foreseeable future. That\u2019s especially true for best practices in maintaining facilities and facility equipment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New Normal in Facilities Management<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The critical role of facilities maintenance teams was front and center last year as it became apparent that the virus was primarily spread airborne. HVAC systems, including negative-pressure systems for Class N rooms, were critical for keeping patients and staff as safe as possible. The engineers and staff maintaining and cleaning that and other equipment over the past year deserve our thanks and admiration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moving forward, no one should ever take them for granted again. We\u2019re pleased to see that Infection Prevention is a featured topic at ASHE\u2019s Annual Conference this summer. Times are truly changing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Industry Leading Solutions and Partnerships<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facilities Maintenance team members are not only skilled, they\u2019re also resourceful. They\u2019re often forced to track down copies of service and repair manuals and cleaning instructions on the Internet, for example. But that\u2019s a lot of googling, just to ultimately learn there\u2019s no archived documentation for your twelve-year-old industrial dish washer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s why two years ago, we at oneSOURCE added a Facilities Maintenance Database platform to our family of manufacturer document databases, right alongside our Biomedical Service Manuals & Documentation Database and our Surgical Equipment & Instruments Database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Facilities Maintenance database contains service and repair manuals and related documents going back for many years \u2013 exactly the information that Facility Management teams and others at the facility need in order to efficiently and correctly maintain and sanitize equipment \u2013 to keep things running like a well-oiled, clean machine!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And to make this even more efficient, we\u2019re forming strategic partnerships with premier CMMS providers, like MediMizer<\/a>, a leader in comprehensive hospital management software. With these kinds of arrangements, healthcare facilities have all the information they need regarding their hospital equipment in one place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or as Gus Sakis, MediMizer\u2019s President, & Global Sales Director for MidiMizer put it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n