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1. What Type of Flooring is
Preferable in Hospitals?
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2. Factors Affecting The Selection Of Hospital Flooring
The risk is bigger in medical establishments when the floors are not properly
cleaned or mopped, diseases might spread easily and contaminate other
patients in the area or lead to accidents. Hygiene is the first word that would
pop up in your mind when you think of hospitals and other medical
institutions. Lot of bacteria and germs gather on flooring which is unhygienic
for a hospital.
There are particular materials that should be used to make the hospital
floors easier to clean and maintain. Non-porous materials such as limestone
and travertine flooring do not retain any micro-organisms on their surface,
so the alcohol-based cleaning products are more efficient against the
unhygienic dirt. The stains which might occur through use of iodine and
other substances can be easier to remove.
The rooms and various corridors of hospitals are populated, therefore the
flooring tiles that you select, should be extremely resilient to extreme usage.
In addition to that, you need to specially select non-slippery tiles in order to
prevent further injuries to the patients in the hospital or to the medical staf
who run around during emergencies. Since there are various substances and
equipment that doctors and nurses use in the hospitals, flooring should be
water resistant, so that the floors are not slippery.
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3. Many Commercial flooring companies provide typical, low-density carpets
which should be used in the corridors. This would help the patients walk
safely and provide easy rolling of equipment such as IV poles and medical
carts. Since controlling infection is essential for every hospital, parallel to the
need to reduce nosocomial infections in the hospital, carpeting in the
corridors would be a great choice since it serves to trap all the airborne
germs, which can cleaned later on.
However, the flooring in spaces like the hospital's lobby, should be designed
considering the space. Many Commercial flooring companies ofer several
options that are ideal for a particular space.
In many operating theatres in hospitals, the designed seamless vinyl is
commonly installed. This type of floors come in large sheets that have
welded seams and clean cuts.
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4. Commercial flooring companies recommend that you should select
flooring that are ideal and do not need much maintenance. Choose
a commercial flooring company after thoroughly researching their
options to choose the best one.
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