Focus: Environmental Services

Pa. healthcare facility deep cleaning after bedbugs found

Dementia patients moved during fumigation of unit


Patients were moved from a suite in the Alzheimer’s and Dementia Unit of the Washington County Health Center while the facility was fumigated for bed bugs, according to an article on the Observor Reporter.

The bedbugs were first seen at the Washington, Pa., facility when a hospice aide was giving lunch to a patient.

The facility concluded the bedbugs either came from the hospice worker’s bag or chair, which was removed. Staff washed all laundry and changed bedding in the affected room as part of a deep cleaning.

When a chair was again brought into the facility by a hospice worker bedbugs were found in the same room. The facility contacted the hospice care provider, removed the chair and called an exterminator.

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May 5, 2017


Topic Area: Infection Control


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