Health Care Facilities

Concerned about bed bugs in your health care facility? Beg bugs don’t discriminate and are just as likely to invade a health care facility as a hotel. While all areas within a hospital are susceptible, certain areas are more conducive to infestations than others- breeding grounds are long-term care facilities and hospices where patients are more likely to bring luggage and other personal effects. Maternity wards and psychiatric wards where patients are admitted as temporary residences are vulnerable too.

Non-toxic products as part of integrated pest management approach

Many health care facilities employ Integrated Pest Management, an environmentally friendly approach to help reduce the potential for negative impact on human health and the environment.

Health care patients may have compromised immune, neurological, digestive and respiratory systems that put them at increased risk of suffering harmful effects from exposure to pesticides. Pregnant women, infants, children and the elderly may be especially and facility staff are vulnerable to the effects of pesticides as well.

Rest Assured MC bed bug solutions

Cryonite, Vapor steam cleaning and Bugstop™ encasements are ideal products for treating health care facilities, hospitals, and schools where chemicals are not an option.

Your checklist for managing bed bugs without alarming patients

1. Monitoring & Early Detection
   • Integrate bed bug monitoring into regular cleaning routines can help identify problems before they spread throughout the facility
   • Weekly – Monitor for evidence when changing the sheets. Check the mattress cover and the edges of the mattress.
   • Monthly – Inspect the box springs for similar signs.
   • Quarterly – Conduct thorough inspections of potential harborage locations – behind pictures and headboards and in furniture, sofas or chairs.
2. Detection tools
   • Encasements, a great early detection tool². While there are a lot of mattress and pillow encasements available, not all are effective. BugstopTM are 100% lab certified and it’s tight knit fabric and specially designed zipper and patch are guaranteed to keep bed bugs out.
3. Utilize monitoring technology
   Rest Assured Laundry Bags (Dissolvable, Biodegradable), Night Watch Bed Bug Monitor
4. Hot & cold treatments for eradicating bed bugs
   • Steam cleaning, Vacuuming- Vapor Dry Steam Cleaning is a safe, non-toxic, chemical free treatment for eradication bed bugs- hot dry steam will kill bed bugs and their eggs on contact as well as sanitize and clean.
   • Cryonite freezing- a 100% organic method using carbon dioxide kills bugs dead without leaving residue or require post treatment work.

² 52% of U.S. pest control firms routinely utilize bedding encasements. (Potter, Romero & Haynes, 2008)