Policy Number
AD-C3-170
Description
There are times that waiting 45 minutes for a regular inpatient bed and 2.5 hours for a contaminated bed to be cleaned is not possible and bed cleaning must be expeditated. There could be a variety of reasons including overcrowding, the implementation of unit or site surge plans, or a unit has multiple dirty beds and the beds were not entered as priority into the Red Alert System.
Accessing clean beds
is important to patient flow. As a result, an urgent bed clean alert is used on the Boarders Expeditor Tile (C3). This procedure outlines the steps to request urgent cleaning of a patient bed.