ALVIN TIMBANCAYA, MD

Chief Executive Officer

MMG- Cooperative Hospital
Corner Burgos Mabini Streets
Puerto Princesa City, Palawan

Thru PAUL S. CASTILLO, MD

Medical Director
MMG-Cooperative Hospital

Dear Sir,

Good Day!

In behalf of the infection control committee, we are respectfully presenting to you the
result of swabbing test done in special areas last December 2018. See attached result. In
response with this, the Infection Control Committee recommends a New Hospital Cleaning
Protocol.
Patient care areas are classified into four 1. Non-High Risk Areas (Nurse Station, Private
Room, Wards), 2. High Risk Areas (Emergency Room Complex, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit,
Regular Intensive Care Units and Isolation Rooms), 3. Operating Rooms (Surgical Operating
Room, PACU, DR) and 4.Doctors Private Clinics.
Types of cleaning are Routine, Regular and General cleaning.
Routine cleaning – mopping of floors, cleaning of comfort rooms/toilet bowl/sink and counter,
cleaning frequently touched areas (door knob or handle, light switch, telephone) collection of
garbage, suction machines and bottles, medicine trays, nurse table, computer table and
keyboards, patients metal/plastic charts, baby cribs, baby bed, crib and incubator.
Regular cleaning—same procedure as routine cleaning plus cleaning bed frame/rail, mattress,
chairs, lounging chair, side tables, cabinet, other furniture/fixture, phototherapy light, pulse
oximetry, cardiac monitor, medicine cabinets. In the operating room, regular cleaning includes
cleaning of the following: OR/DR table, stretchers, mayo table, instrument table, IV stand and
other fixtures such as infant warmer, anesthesia machine, cardiac monitor and other
equipment’s in contact with patient such as stethoscope and BP cuff.
General cleaning same procedure as regular cleaning plus the use of sanosil halo fogger
whenever indicated and wall to wall cleaning of the area, include drop light, or light, windowsill,
curtains, air conditioning unit, oxygen tank, emergency cart/kit, infant weighing scale, foot stool,
staff chairs.
 THE TYPE/FREQUENCY OF CLEANING THE PATIENT CARE AREAS IS BASED ON ITS
CLASSIFICATION.

Type of Non- High Risk High Risk Areas Operating Private Doctors
cleaning Areas Rooms Clinic
(Nurse Station, (OR/DR/RR)
(ER/NICU/MICU/Isolation
Private Rooms,
Rooms)
Wards)
Routine Once a day Twice a day Twice a day After each
clinic use or as
requested
Regular Upon patient Upon patient discharge After every 2x a month
discharge for case
private rooms
and wards.
Nurse
station :once a
day
General At least once a At least once a month or Every Sunday Once a month
month or when when isolation period
isolation period terminated
terminated

NOTE: LYSOL IS THE MOST EFFICIENT DISINFECTANT BASED ON OUR SWABBING TEST LAST
SEPTEMBER 2018.

Sincerely Yours,
Angelica B. Valdez, RN
IPC, Nurse

Approved By: Prepared By:

Adelito C. Posas, MD, FPCP Karen Dalingding, MD, DPPS, DPIDSP
Chair, MMG IPC Committee Member, MMG IPC