New products for safer patient environments
US-based Prime Medical is introducing hospital privacy curtains, scrubs and lab coats that make use of the sanitising effects of sodium hypochlorite-based bleach to help make these soft surfaces part of the solution in reducing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).
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Prime Medical is partnering with Clorox Professional Products Company – which offers healthcare facilities a wide range of solutions to help prevent and stop the spread of infections and create cleaner, healthier environments –to introduce the new line of products. “The fabric of our privacy curtains, scrubs and lab coats will provide another tool for those in the health care environment to fight HAIs, making soft surfaces an asset rather than a liability,” said Jim Sampey, CEO of Prime Medical. “Together, Prime Medical and Clorox Professional Products Company will fight HAIs and change the fabric of healthcare.”
“When we first saw the technology that Prime Medical was bringing to market, we knew it was one more example of a bundled approach to infection prevention and reducing pathogens in patient environments,” said Amy Harmon, Associate Director – Marketing, Clorox Healthcare. “That's what we look for in partners – like-minded companies that are as focused as we are on creating innovative solutions for cleaner, safer healthcare settings.”
Prime Medical said that the new privacy curtains, scrubs and lab coats will feature the Clorox Healthcare and CloroxPro brand equities and provide ‘unprecedented bactericidal protection’, leading to safer patient environments.