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Infection in U.S. healthcare facilities remains one of the biggest issues in the cleaning industry today, but methods continue to improve. Cleaning & Maintenance Management recently spoke with Jan-Pro executive vice president Dennis Thompson about the bacteria conditions plaguing healthcare facilities and what Jan-Pro is doing to combat them.
 
Thompson told the magazine that the issue stems mainly from bacterial infections that are resistant to antibiotics, requiring new methods for proper disinfecting.
 
“Most disinfectant solutions, over the past decades, have killed microbes by covering them; the solutions had to sit on a surface for a various amount of minutes. What we use chemically [now] doesn't poison microbes, it mechanically destroys the cell wall and neutralizes it—so we get very quick kills,” Thompson told Cleaning & Maintenance Management.

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Nick Powills, CFE, founded No Limit Agency in 2008 and serves as Chief Brand Strategist for the Chicago-based firm. No Limit is a full-service communications agency that establishes and elevates brands by bridging Public Relations, Social Media, Marketing, Advertising, Digital, and a lot of creativity, to best strategize well-rounded and successful campaigns for 50+ global franchise brands. By presenting visionary ideas and building real relationships, No Limit is able to create effective media branding strategies to help companies grow. Nick currently leads a staff of writers, media strategists, designers, social media experts and digital producers in an office think-tank where brands are humanized for strong, compelling media stories. Prior to starting No Limit at the age of 27, Nick spent four years working at a franchise PR agency where he mastered the art of building rapport with media outlets and creating newsworthy pitches for earned media placements. He holds a Bachelor of Journalism from Drake University in Iowa.

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