Read our guides, articles and implementation plans to gain useful insight and information on running an efficient care home.
Meet our care expert, Clare Long, who's worked closely with many care homes and understands the laundry challenges they face on a daily basis.
Our simple five-step guide provides guidance for some of the vital considerations when introducing or revising your laundry infection control procedures.
Designing a laundry room for a care home takes a lot of consideration and a well-planned laundry can make all the difference to running a succesful care home. This article has pooled our many years of experience in helping care homes improve their laundry facilities.
With the prospect of CQC inspections constantly looming, care managers need to ensure they have as much knowledge as possible about how their home is going to be assessed. Our CQC guide helps you look at your laundry requirements to make sure your care home can meet iand exceed nspection standards.
As a busy care home, chances are that you'll already have more than enough on your plate. However, one initiative that can be truly beneficial to residents is sensory planning. Our handy five-step guide should come in useful.
At Miele we’ve helped hundreds of care homes across the country to improve laundry processes. We’ve now put all this knowledge into these ‘care cards’. Each depicts a different types of care home, the challenges they face and a recommended laundry solution. See which is closest to your needs…
A warm welcome to Chantry Dale – a luxury assisted living village situated in the rural heart of England
Supplying the best possible white goods and appliances to their customers is key. At Chantry Dale, Miele’s commercial and domestic
products help ensure topclass catering, impeccable cleanliness, and excellent hygiene.
Take a tour around the village to find out more.
Whether you’re building a brand-new extra care or assisted living facility, or revising provisions for an existing site, appliances play a vital role in the quality of care offered to residents. Miele has compiled this short guide as a handy reference tool to help you ensure you’ve got all these vital equipment and design considerations covered.
Download and display this handy poster in your laundry room.
How to ensure quality of life when selecting a residential home for your relatives.
Hygiene has always been a crucial part of any care home's operation. This guide has been put togeher to help give some clarity across all sectors on the hygiene practices to be followed when using Miele products.
Decontamination of linen and non-washable products for health and social care.
Practical guidance for managers and frontline care staff,
We recently teamed up with Care Home Professional to deliver a webinar on infection prevention and control in health and social care – a topic that’s more important than ever as we try to navigate our way safely out of the Covid-19 pandemic and protect the most vulnerable in society. We partnered with Barend ter Haar, managing director at mobility equipment supplier, BES Healthcare, so we could also cover the effective decontamination of non-washable items, while Miele business account manager, Sam Holden, covered the decontamination of linen in accordance with CQC guidelines. Here’s a summary of the key laundry
considerations we discussed.
We recently teamed up with Care Home Professional to deliver a webinar on infection prevention and control in health and social care, covering the decontamination of linen, courtesy of Miele business account manager, Sam Holden, as well as the decontamination of non-washable items, covered by Barend ter Haar, managing director at mobility equipment supplier, BES Healthcare. The session offered lots of insights around effective decontamination and infection control (find our summary of the key laundry considerations here) and lots of practical learnings for care home staff. Keep reading for seven of Sam’s key takeaways.
To find out how you can benefit from the hassle-free, low cost ownership of a Miele in your care business, get in touch with us today.
