Mouse Control and Treatment For Nursing Homes/ Assisted Living Facilities in Kittanning, PA
Our EXPERT team is here to help you better understand rodents and the importance of ridding your establishment of them. A single mouse sighted during the day can indicate that there is a significant infestation. Expert Pest’s professional rodent exterminators take the proper steps to ensure a rodent free establishment and that a re-infestation doesn’t happen.
The Risks of Mice In Nursing Homes, Assisted Living, Or Senior Living Facilities
Because of the potential dangers of mice bites and food contamination, mice can have significant repercussions from a safety standpoint, as well as an economic and brand impact. A single sighting of this pest can be cause for a healthcare facility to be shut down.
The loss in revenue, patient loyalty, and damage to your brand could be irreparable.
As a medical living facility, owners and managers know all too well pest management is likely one of the biggest challenges they face on a daily basis. The abundance of food, ideal moisture, and temperature conditions provide pests with refuge and nesting sites, making nursing homes, assisted living, and senior living facilities one of the more ideal environments for pests. Although a number of species can be problematic year-round, in winter months, rodents tend to be of most concern. Because rodents don’t discriminate, they will make themselves at home wherever they can. Mice can enter buildings through the tiniest of holes. Mice can squeeze through a hole the size of a dime. Once inside, these pests have everything they need to start breeding inside. They have now made YOUR facility, THEIR home.
Mice will use nearly any means possible to gain access to food, water and shelter. They are good climbers with excellent balance and can use wires, pipes, and even gutters to find entry points into structures. Mice are also very good swimmers making them right at home along waterways and in sewers.
When mice frequent an area, they often leave behind clues such as droppings, urine, and gnawing damage. Other, more subtle signs can include tracks or runways, rub marks, burrows, and you can even hear scratching or moving within your walls. These clues can be used to identify where mice are feeding or nesting. Nests are commonly found in sheltered locations, and usually consist of shredded materials such as paper, cardboard and insulation.
Mice are dangerous pests capable of spreading over 35 of diseases, especially for the elderly and immuno-compromised patients. When foraging mice contaminate surfaces with their droppings and urine that can spread bacteria, contaminate foods, and cause allergic reactions.
Overwintering rodents can also cause extensive damage to your structure. Gnawing damage to electrical wires can pose a dangerous fire hazard, while chewed water lines can cause leaks or even flooding. Mice also cause considerable damage to insulation by tearing it apart for nesting materials or due to contamination from feces.
Check your healthcare facilities for signs of rodent droppings, gnaw marks, scurrying noises behind walls, and an accumulation of shredded paper hidden in dark corners, indicating a nesting site. Addressing these conditions at the first signs of rodent activity is important to the success of any rodent management program.
If you do find signs of rodent activity, the best approach is to call Expert Pest to make sure these invasive pests are quickly removed to ensure the safety and health of your patients.
Why Choose Expert Pest
At Expert Pest we implement and utilize all current and the most effective products and methods to rid your business of this disease carrying menace. Mice infestations continue to be a nuisance that many nursing homes and assisted living housing face. Expert Pest has years of experience in effectively treating mice in the this type of environments. Our team wants to help you understand mice, where to find them, and the extermination process.
A rodent trapping system is sometimes necessary to determine the level of an infestation. A key factor in prevention is sanitation. Cleaning up all spilled foods and removing dirty dishes overnight. Store food items such as cereal, crackers, cookies, flour, sugar, and bread in airtight sealed containers. Empty garbage every night into a sturdy container with a tight lid.
Expert Pest aims to remove the stress associated with these pests and provide our customers and your patients and families with a safer and healthier environment. Expert Pest has professionally trained technicians that utilize all current methods and procedures to eliminate this pest and give you peace of mind.
For all Nursing Home, Assisted Living, Or Senior Living pest problems, you can count on Expert Pest Management for reliable, efficient, and high-quality pest extermination.
