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Bed Bugs in Hospitals

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When people think of bed bug problems in businesses, they most often think about hotels. In reality, bed bugs can become a problem anywhere that people and their belongings come in contact with each other. This includes airplanes, trains, apartment buildings and even retail stores. It also includes healthcare facilities. When you think about the high volume of traffic in places like hospitals, nursing homes and clinics, it makes sense why this would be the case. Over the past few years, we have seen an increase in bed bug complaints across industries, including healthcare.

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With bed bugs come a multitude of business challenges, including employees and patients returning to their homes with bed bugs, cost of treatment and the impact bed bugs can have on your brand. Although bed bugs don’t transmit diseases to their victims, they can put patients at risk. The presence, or even the suspicion of bed bugs can be very stressful. Bed bugs can also leave an itchy welt on their victims, which may become infected and pose a threat to sensitive patients. Here’s what you can do to help train your staff to be aware of bed bugs and understand detection and treatment options.

Signs of Bed Bugs

Before you invest in a bed bug treatment, make sure you have a certified and trained individual do a thorough inspection. There are some things you can watch for too:

How to Train Staff

Preventing bed bugs from ever entering your facility is nearly impossible with how easily they can transfer from one place to the next. However, you can prepare your staff to identify and handle potential bed bug infestations with urgency.

Bed Bug Treatment Options

If you discover bed bugs in your hospital or other healthcare facility, there are several measures you can take with a pest control company like Wil-Kil.

Conventional treatments are ideal for localized areas that need to be treated. Methods include:

Heat treatment is the most effective form of bed bug removal as it can kill all stages of bed bugs in one treatment. This is achieved by heating the rooms to temperatures above 120°F, the point where bed bugs in all stages die. This ideal for heating a whole room, but can get costly when multiple rooms needs treatment.

A Wil-Kil pest professional will help you to find a treatment plan that works with you, and schedule regular inspections to stop infestations before they begin to spread.

Contact us today to learn more about bed bug control for healthcare facilities.

 

 

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