UV-C light robots boost care home infection prevention

What do you do if you manage a care home and there is an outbreak? Infection prevention control (IPC) is the cornerstone and needs to be thorough, fast and safe. A traditional deep clean is time consuming, uses chemicals and rooms and facilities are not always returned immediately as often the space will need more time to clear.

What if there was an outbreak and there was an easier and more efficient way to deal with it? This is what happened at Millard House Care Home in Essex. There was a SARS – CoV-2 outbreak and the manager, Cristine Duran, called in Microstrategies and their NHS grade UV-C light robots to undertake a deep clean to ensure a safe and healthy environment.

Millard House is a large care home with 34 residents and hygiene and confidence must remain a top priority al all times. Cristine said: "We have a lot of vulnerable residents so we need to disinfect the complex including bedrooms, corridors, reception, offices, bathrooms, lounges, and dining areas after an outbreak but keeping the impact on our facilities, residents and staff to a minimum."

The high-profile NHS grade UV-C disinfection process not only rapidly deep-cleaned the care home, but also reassured and boosted the confidence of staff and residents that their well-being was being taken seriously. UV-C light and robots is proving to be one of the best methods for quick and thorough IPC, killing 99.999% of all pathogens - including viruses, bacterium and fungal spores without using any chemicals. As soon as the robots have made an area safe it is immediately ready to be used again. Visual validation stickers, that change colour after UV-C light, and a heat map of the area show that the area has been disinfected.

The manager, Cristine, added: "I’ve never seen anything like that, so quick and with minimal fuss, no chemicals and the visual validation sticker and colour coding proves what has been done in each room."