Ventilation Survey
MTA conducts ventilation surveys in acute care hospitals, mental care hospitals, primary care out-patient centers, out-patient surgical facilities, assisted living facilities, and nursing homes. The most common areas tested are operating rooms, laboratories, endoscopy, imaging suites, patient care units, and nurseries. All ventilation testing is based on ANSI/ASHRAE 170 – Ventilation of Health Care Facilities. This series of documents offers guidance, regulation, and mandates to designers of healthcare facilities.
Without high-quality ventilation in healthcare facilities, patients, workers, and visitors can become infected through normal respiration of airborne particles. Poorly ventilated healthcare facilities contain a high likelihood of pathogenic particles occurring in the air. These air-transmitted pathogens can be found everywhere in poorly ventilated healthcare facilities. Although most individuals can cope using just their healthy immune systems, some patients are susceptible to these pathogens or even to normal, environmental air-borne organisms, such as fungal spores.
This standard considers not only the physical airflow rates and volume, but also the chemical and biological contaminants that can affect the quality of medical care and convalescence to patients, as well as the safety of patients, healthcare workers, and visitors.
MTA’s Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) monitoring and testing service considers the chemical, physical and biological contaminants in their surveys.
For more detailed information, please fill out our quick questionnaire, or call our toll-free number, and one of our specialists will be pleased to answer your questions.
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