How to use a Digital Checklist for Hospital Housekeeping

Hospital housekeeping and cleaning standards are of essential importance and should be monitored as efficiently as possible to increase patient safety and comply with hygiene standards at all times.

Digital checklists help to ensure effective cleaning routines and hospital hygiene. Establish a safer monitoring of hospital cleaning standards using the newest available technology.

This article covers the following topics:

1. Important areas to monitor during hospital housekeeping

2. A digital platform for hospital housekeeping

Areas to be monitored

Establishing and monitoring an effective housekeeping plan in a hospital is a highly complex task which requires constant attention. Hospital staff should be frequently checked, informed and trained on appropriate hygiene and cleaning procedures. The following 3 steps are critical to housekeeping and ensuring a hygienic environment at all times:

Checking frequently used areas and surfaces

Frequently used areas such as, operating rooms, emergency rooms and intensive care units have to be routinely monitored by hospital administrators as to their cleaning status. These areas are at high-risk for contamination and should follow the required guidelines for cleaning.

Restocking supplies

Cleaning supplies, PPE and other necessary equipment should be frequently checked and appropriately restocked. Monitoring the stock of supplies is essential to the upkeep of hospital cleanness and safety.

Checking personal hand hygiene

Even the most essential and self-explanatory steps such as hand hygiene among staff members needs to be monitored regularly and corrected whenever necessary. It is important to remind staff of important guidelines and train new staff members to ensure safe procedures in all areas of the building.

Lumiform: Your App for Hospital Cleaning and Housekeeping

Lumiform makes it easier for you to comply with the ever-increasing legal requirements for process documentation by using the mobile app to document via smartphone or tablet and being guided by the system through all documentation processes. Clean, transparent documentation helps you avoid high fines. The easiest way to do this is with a digital solution like Lumiform.

• Generate real-time data about your processes. This makes quality and safety measurable for the first time and you can use the data to continuously improve processes.


• Reports are generated completely automatically, which saves you the need to do all the manual follow-up work.


• Increase the efficiency of your internal processes: Solve incidents up to 4x faster than before through more efficient communication within the team, with third parties and with management and faster reporting of incidents.


• Save time with easier analysis of all data and faster identification of areas that need your attention.


• Continuous improvement of quality and safety: With the flexible checklist construction kit, you can continuously optimize internal checks and processes. The Lumiform guides the examiner through the exam, no training is required.


• Very easy to use with no margin for error for employees. The app offers less complexity in documenting or filling out checklists than complicated paper or Excel lists.