Floor coverings for new hospital

[Kerry Addlem]

We are in the planning stages of building a new hospital. It is time to decide on floorcoverings.

I would be interested on your thoughts regarding carpet verses vinyl in residents’ bedrooms in a high care facility.

Also, does anyone have any experience with a European design “Bolon” textured vinyl.

I look forward to your thoughts.

Regards

Kerry Addlem
Infection Control CoordinatorPO Box 159 Charlton VIC 3525 Tel: 03 5477 6867 Fax: 03 54912010

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[Anonymous]

Hi Kerry,
If I had a choice it would be vinyl. Easier to maintain especially in an outbreak situation.

Kind regards

Sue Flockhart
Manager, Infection Prevention & Control Unit
Staff Immunisation Clinic
Ballarat Health Services
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Fax-53204487
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We are in the planning stages of building a new hospital. It is time to decide on floorcoverings.

I would be interested on your thoughts regarding carpet verses vinyl in residents’ bedrooms in a high care facility.

Also, does anyone have any experience with a European design “Bolon” textured vinyl.

I look forward to your thoughts.

Regards

Kerry Addlem
Infection Control CoordinatorPO Box 159 Charlton VIC 3525 Tel: 03 5477 6867 Fax: 03 54912010

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[Julie Hunt]

Hi Kerry,

There was a lot of information on carpets on the list a few weeks ago.

In our new hospital Infection Prevention & Control stipulated that
floor coverings throughout must be easy to clean and resistant to
disinfection procedures therefore all clinical areas utilise both slip
resistant and non slip vinyl (as required).

The vinyl selected is a Polyurethane reinforced low maintenance PVC
floor covering engineered for heavy duty hospital and health care use.

We reviewed a lot of vinyl products but haven’t seen the Bolon. For us
it was important that we could clean the product with our usual neutral
detergents (some require special cleaning agents) and if required
disinfect with Hypochlorite 1000ppm, so that narrowed down the field.

Regards

Julie

Julie Hunt
Clinical Nurse Consultant | Infection Prevention and Control
Royal North Shore Hospital, Reserve Rd, St Leonards 2065
Tel 02 9926 4339 or 992604490 juhunt@nsccahs.health.nsw.gov.au

>>> Kerry Addlem 20/11/2012 2:55 pm >>>
We are in the planning stages of building a new hospital. It is time to
decide on floorcoverings.

I would be interested on your thoughts regarding carpet verses vinyl in
residents’ bedrooms in a high care facility.

Also, does anyone have any experience with a European design “Bolon”
textured vinyl.

I look forward to your thoughts.

Regards

Kerry Addlem
Infection Control CoordinatorPO Box 159 Charlton VIC 3525 Tel: 03
5477 6867 Fax: 03 54912010

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[Joe-Anne Bendall]

Hi Kerry
We have refurbished our ED and there was no consultation with Cleaning Services Manager when the final decision was made. Now, with beautiful – almost white floors – it shows up every mark.

My advice it to be careful of colour when deciding on the floor type

Thanks

Joe

Joe-anne Bendall
Infection Prevention and Control CNC
Sydney Hospital and Sydney Eye Hospital
8 Macquarie St
Sydney 2000

Phone: 93827199
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From: ACIPC Infexion Connexion [mailto:AICALIST@AICALIST.ORG.AU] On Behalf Of Julie Hunt
Sent: Tuesday, 20 November 2012 4:56 PM
To: AICALIST@AICALIST.ORG.AU
Subject: Re: Floor coverings for new hospital

Hi Kerry,

There was a lot of information on carpets on the list a few weeks ago.

In our new hospital Infection Prevention & Control stipulated that
floor coverings throughout must be easy to clean and resistant to
disinfection procedures therefore all clinical areas utilise both slip
resistant and non slip vinyl (as required).

The vinyl selected is a Polyurethane reinforced low maintenance PVC
floor covering engineered for heavy duty hospital and health care use.

We reviewed a lot of vinyl products but haven’t seen the Bolon. For us
it was important that we could clean the product with our usual neutral
detergents (some require special cleaning agents) and if required
disinfect with Hypochlorite 1000ppm, so that narrowed down the field.

Regards

Julie

Julie Hunt

Clinical Nurse Consultant | Infection Prevention and Control
Royal North Shore Hospital, Reserve Rd, St Leonards 2065
Tel 02 9926 4339 or 992604490 juhunt@nsccahs.health.nsw.gov.au

>>> Kerry Addlem 20/11/2012 2:55 pm >>>
We are in the planning stages of building a new hospital. It is time to
decide on floorcoverings.

I would be interested on your thoughts regarding carpet verses vinyl in
residents’ bedrooms in a high care facility.

Also, does anyone have any experience with a European design “Bolon”
textured vinyl.

I look forward to your thoughts.

Regards

Kerry Addlem
Infection Control CoordinatorPO Box 159 Charlton VIC 3525 Tel: 03
5477 6867 Fax: 03 54912010
Mob: 0419534673
Email: kerry.addlem@ewhs.org.au

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[Jane Tomlinson]

from a different perspective here in Paediatrics but I vote no to carpet, will send my details off line.

I have had experience with ‘flotec’ carpet which is very hard to clean as the glue holding the fibre to backing can’t tolerate any detergents and only allows steam cleaning, and is thus the an attractive low drag flooring but was a source of an outbreak of norovirus.

regards
Jane

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Royal Children’s Hospital
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>>> Kerry Addlem 20/11/12 13:55 >>>

We are in the planning stages of building a new hospital. It is time to decide on floorcoverings.

I would be interested on your thoughts regarding carpet verses vinyl in residents bedrooms in a high care facility.

Also, does anyone have any experience with a European design Bolon textured vinyl.

I look forward to your thoughts.

Regards

Kerry Addlem
Infection Control CoordinatorPO Box 159 Charlton VIC 3525 Tel: 03 5477 6867 Fax: 03 54912010
Mob: 0419534673
Email: kerry.addlem@ewhs.org.au

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[Mike Terry]

Hi Kerry

Our Hospital was rebuilt in the late 1990s/2000s at the time carpets
went into the general corridors, clinical area corridors but not the
patient rooms in most areas (for some reason they did in the maternity
area).

There had been issues with BBF spills and cleaning the carpets. It has
been also noted there is a lot of dust in the clinical areas.

At present we are doing rolling refurbishment through the clinical
areas and the recommendation has been to take the carpet out of the
clinical area corridors.

The areas that have been refurbished appear to be staying cleaner and
it has been noted that there is a reduction in the amount of dust in
these areas.

Have not had any experience with the textured vinyl.

Hope this helps.

Mike

Mike

Mike Terry
Clinical Nurse Consultant
Infection Monitoring and Prevention Service
Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital
Metro North Hospital and Health Service

T: 3646 1482 | F: 3646 1388 | DECT: 73682
Mike_Terry@health.qld.gov.au
Level 6 Joyce Tweddel Building
RBWH, Herston, QLD, 4029

>>> On Tuesday, 20 November 2012 at 1:55 pm, in message
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Kerry Addlem wrote:

We are in the planning stages of building a new hospital. It is time to
decide on floorcoverings.

I would be interested on your thoughts regarding carpet verses vinyl in
residents bedrooms in a high care facility.

Also, does anyone have any experience with a European design Bolon
textured vinyl.

I look forward to your thoughts.

Regards

Kerry Addlem
Infection Control CoordinatorPO Box 159 Charlton VIC 3525 Tel: 03
5477 6867 Fax: 03 54912010

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