Sick and Tired of Fighting Germs in Nursing Homes

If you run a nursing home, you already know that “Super Bugs” are one of the toughest problems you face today…  Well now we have a better idea and a better way!

A Johns Hopkins study of adult patients admitted to The Johns Hopkins Hospital showed that patients who resided in nursing homes or other kinds of long-term care facilities at any time within the last six months were far more likely than other adult patients to carry or be infected with a drug-resistant superbug.

The study, conducted over a four-month period in 2006, was intended to grasp the extent of one of the lesser known hospital superbugs, multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter (MDR-ACIN), and control its spread among the hospital’s most vulnerable adult patients.  More than 1,600 were screened within 24 hours of admission to any one of five intensive care units where previous infections had been recorded.

Results showed that patients who had been in nursing homes, either admitted to Hopkins directly from a long-term care facility or transferred from home or another community hospital, were 12 times more likely than other patients to be carriers of the bacterium.  Rates were even higher, 22 times, among those patients who were wheelchair- or bed-bound because their legs were paralyzed.

What mostly surprised researchers was that a majority of the MDR-ACIN-colonized patients, who ranged in age from 19 to 74, also carried high rates of three other, more common superbugs.  Sixty-two percent had methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), 77 percent had vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE), and 39 percent had extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) gram-negative bacteria.

“Our results dramatically illustrate how widespread these drug-resistant bacteria have become among health care facilities in just the last decade,” says Lisa Maragakis, M.D., the hospital epidemiologist who led the investigation.  “This is only going to complicate our efforts to get a grip on the problem, and it is going to place added pressure on all hospitals and other health care facilities to increase and fine-tune their surveillance and control measures.”The immediate danger to patients from superbugs is that they can lead to potentially dangerous bloodstream infections, says Perl, a professor of medicine and pathology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

So is there a real solution?

The real solution is to take a different approach to managing the environment inside your nursing home!

And the Healthier Environment Living Program™ is just what you need!

It makes complete sense to take a “holistic approach” to determine what kind of germs, bacteria, viruses and microorganisms are present in your nursing home before determining what type of actions are needed to keep your facility as germ and bacteria free as possible.

And your local IASQ™ Indoor Air and Surface Quality Certified Inspector Professional will do just that!

Before any “solutions” are recommended, air and surface sampling will be conducted in order to determine what type of issues that you face in your nursing home.

As soon as the test results are back from the EPA Certified Laboratory, your local  IASQ™ Indoor Air and Surface Quality Certified Inspector Professional will sit down with you and go over the test results. Based on the test results received, a custom solution will be designed for your nursing home.

Your custom solution will definitely include an antimicrobial treatment with H.E.L.P.’s trademarked XMICROBE™ solution!

You see, protecting your nursing home from bacteria, mold and mildew is easier than ever with XMICROBE™ unique antimicrobial technology.

Our XMICROBE™ Technology offers an antimicrobial protection that works every minute of every day with just one simple application and it’s affordable and long-lasting.

XMICROBE™ Technology creates a durable bond to the surfaces of your nursing home preventing further growth, spreading of bacteria and cross-contamination.  Protect the patients and employees in your nursing home and ease your mind as XMICROBE™ Technology works to control Microbial growth.

The antimicrobial treatment is perfect for:

Kitchens                                                                   Dining Rooms

Bathrooms                                                              Visiting Areas

Offices                                                                       Patient Rooms

Physical Rehab Facilities                                  Meeting Rooms

Laundry Rooms                                                   Janitorial Areas

What will the XMICROBE™ Technology do for Your nursing home?

• XMICROBE™ Technology continuously fights the growth of microbes that can make your patients and employees sick!
• XMICROBE™ Technology protection makes the surfaces in your nursing home easier to clean and keeps them cleaner in between cleanings.
• XMICROBE™ Technology is applied to porous and nonporous surfaces and is difficult wash off!
• XMICROBE™ Technology is engineered to provide continuous antimicrobial protection for an extended period of time.

Why is using XMICROBE™ antimicrobial treatment better than using poisonous chemicals to keep your nursing home cleaner and more germ-free?

Conventional cleaning products penetrate living cells and kill by way of poisoning or chemically altering the organism. They are designed to act quickly and dissipate quickly to avoid adverse affect humans and animals due to their toxic ingredients.

Most commercial antimicrobials used for treating building services do a good job of killing some bacteria and fungi, although most of them have a limited spectrum of effectiveness.

And heavy metal-based antimicrobials, such as silver ion may leach into the environment and lose their effectiveness over time.

But XMICROBE™ Technology takes a totally unique approach.

It provides long-term control of growth on treated services. The surface itself is actually modified to make it to antimicrobial active.

Plus, the XMICROBE™ Technology assists in preventing Biofilm build up.  Biofilm build up on an irregular surface accumulates over time and offers a difficult to clean surface with a microbial food source. But the XMICROBE™ Technology reduces the Biofilm build up making the surface easier to clean with no microbial food source!

You’re probably wondering how the XMICROBE™ Technology works, so check this out…

XMICROBE™ Technology is a patented, EPA registered revolutionary new product.  And it prevents the growth of an amazingly wide array of bacteria, H1N1 (swine flu virus), MRSA, VRE, mold, mildew, algae and yeast.

XMICROBE™ Technology acts like a bed of microscopic spikes that pierces the cell walls of microbes.  This is a totally new approach to providing long-lasting antimicrobial protection.

XMICROBE™ Technology is unique. One end of  its molecule creates a strong bond with a multitude of surfaces, porous and nonporous, forming a highly durable protective coating. The other end of the molecule forms a microscopic bed of spikes that punctures microbes like a bed of nails.

XMICROBE™ Technology physically ruptures the cell walls of these microbes, without the use of poisons.

Since XMICROBE™ Technologies methodology is mechanical instead of poisons, it does not create “Superbugs,” which are microbes that build up a resistance to treatment.

XMICROBE™ Technologies molecular spikes are long chains of atoms that are large enough to pierce the cell walls of various microbes. Being only about 1000 the diameter of a human hair, they are too small to harm large cells in mammals.

These chains of atoms carry a strong positive charge that attracts negatively charged bacteria. XMICROBE™ Technology has been found in independent testing to be effective against a wide array  of microbes, including H1N1 (swine flu virus), MRSA, VRE, Staphylococcus arias, E. coli, various Salmonella strains, black mold, athletes foot, influenza A., skin infections, and many others.

Here’s the bottom line…

If you want a cleaner, healthier nursing home, with happier patients, families and employees you need Healthier Environment Living Program™.

So give us a call Today at 404-788-2581 and we’ll get a IASQ™ Indoor Air and Surface Quality Certified Inspector Professional to visit you right away, so that you can provide a Healthier Environment for your guests and employees!

We’ll also share with you how to make the laundry in your nursing home much safer for your patients and staff!