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Partnering to Protect Long Term Care Communities
At Ecolab, we provide cleaning products, programs and training designed to meet the needs of long term care and senior living communities to create healthy spaces that foster well-being and inspire confidence.
Ecolab partners with long term care communities, including assisted living and nursing homes, to help them deliver a heightened level of cleanliness, food safety and advanced hygiene protocols. With a commitment to improving safety, resident satisfaction and regulatory compliance, we work in partnership with customers to optimize and enhance hygiene results and best practices.
Helping Long Term Care Communities Face Critical Challenges
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Protecting Brand Reputation
76% of prospective residents and caregivers look to online reviews to learn more about a community.*
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Meeting Resident Expectations
93% of prospective residents believe there is a direct link between cleanliness and quality of care.**
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Attracting and Retaining Staff Amid Ongoing Labor Shortage
62% of senior care leaders report difficulties in hiring qualified employees.***
From resident rooms to on-site laundry, kitchens and common areas, we have solutions that meet your facility’s needs.
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1. Hand Hygiene
2. Floor Care
3. Housekeeping
4. Water Safety and Management
5. Pool and Spa
6. Food Safety and Kitchen Hygiene
7. Laundry
8. Restroom Care and Odor Control
9. Surface Disinfections and Cleaners
10. Pest Elimination
Featured Long Term Care Programs:
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High-Performing, Easy-to-Use Laundry Program
Our laundry programs are designed to fit your needs, delivery hygienically clean linens and improve the health and safety of your community.
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Comprehensive Hand Hygiene
Ecolab offers an array of liquid and foaming hand soaps, sanitizers and lotions. We’ve designed a hand hygiene system to help you more easily integrate good hand hygiene practices throughout your long term care or senior living community.
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Kitchen Cleaning and Sanitation
Robust food safety practices, kitchen cleaning and sanitation is foundational for successful food service operations. Our comprehensive back of house program combines innovative products with our food safety expertise to help you maintain the highest level of cleanliness to better protect your residents, reputation and operations.
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Help Protective the Longevity of Your Flooring
Our comprehensive floor care solutions are suited to clean and protect a variety of flooring types from concrete to luxury vinyl tile, upholstery, hard surfaces and more.
Cleaning Solutions to Deliver Clean, Healthy Spaces Across Your Facility
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Rapid Multi-Surface Disinfectant Cleaner
A 4-in-1 disinfectant cleaner with soft surface sanitation, leading claims, broad application and surface versatility and an improved user experience.
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Scrub Free Bathroom Cleaner and Disinfectant
We offer an easier, faster and safer way to clean bathrooms at your long-term care and senior living facilities—reduces physical effort and leaves surfaces clean and shiny.
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Bio-Enzymatic Odor Eliminator
Remove stubborn smells at the source with this enzymatic odor remover—simple, easy-to-use and well-suited for odor challenges in assisted living and nursing home facilities.
Kitchen Hygiene and Food Safety Equipment and Innovation
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Machine and Manual Warewashing Solutions
Ecolab provides warewashing solutions, training and support designed to fit your unique long term care operations. Save water and energy without sacrificing clean results.
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Dishmachine Rental Program
Our best-in-class rental program provides a comprehensive line of products and 24/7/365 service and parts without upfront investment or ongoing maintenance costs.
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Sink and Surface Cleaner Sanitizer
2021 Edison Award Winner for COVID-19 Innovation
Simplified food-contact surface sanitizer cleans and sanitizes hard, non-porous surfaces with a single product, eliminates the rinse step, and allows staff to clean more efficiently.
Proactive Programs to Cover Long Term Care Operations
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Pest Management and Elimination
Appearance is considered one of the most important factors by families when selecting a long term care community. Ecolab can help protect you from pests and provide a safe environment.
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EcoSure: Brand Protection Program
Long-term care facilities face unique challenges to meet regulatory requirements and provide an excellent resident experience. EcoSure provides onsite assessments, coaching, real-time insights and more to improve your critical operations.
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Pool and Spa Maintenance Solutions
Our unique products and expertise can help you manage and maintain clean, clear and safe water in your recreational areas.
Tell Us About Your Long Term Care Needs
✓ | Highly effective illness prevention |
✓ | Comprehensive programs |
✓ | Expert resources |
✓ | On-demand training modules |
Resource Spotlight
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Beat the Cold and Flu Season This Year:
A Q&A with Elaine Black, Director RD&E Food Safety
Hear Eliane Black outline the many opportunities to improve illness prevention and “spread the health” in nursing homes, including maintaining symptom awareness and focusing on good hand and surface hygiene with effective assisted living cleaning products and procedures.
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The Importance of Hand Hygiene in Long Term Care
Hand hygiene compliance is considered the most cost-effective measure to prevent hospital associated infections, per the National Library of Medicine. Partner with Ecolab to help drive compliance and deliver effective long term care cleaning and disinfection.
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Offset Labor Challenges with On-Demand Digital Training
On-Demand Digital Training by Ecolab is a simplified, flexible approach to training that helps our customers address key labor challenges and improve long term care operations.
Ecolab Science Certified™ Program for Senior Living
Count on a Scientific Clean™
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Ecolab Science Certified™ is a comprehensive, science-based public health and food safety program designed with operational efficiency in mind, to help deliver a higher level of cleanliness. The program combines industry-leading hospital disinfectants and sanitizers, detailed training and procedures and periodic auditing.
Together, we can advance cleaner, safer practices and build confidence with your staff and residents.
Comprehensive Long Term Care Solutions
References
1. *November 2023 survey of 549 consumers conducted by third-party research vendor on behalf of Ecolab
2. **Internal Ecolab research study from July 2014, published by McKnight’s Senior Living https://www.mcknights.com/marketplace/cleanliness-is-linked-to-care/.
3. ***Senior Care Survey Report: Workforce 360, March 2024