Hotel adds decontaminating germ zapping robots to its cleaning protocol
Pearl Hospitality, a Houston based company teamed up with Westin Hotels & Resorts to convert the historic 66 year old Medical Towers building in the Texas Medical Centre as a hotel. Called the Westin Houston Medical Center, the hotel opened in late January this year.
Located in the heart of the Texas Medical Center (TMC) - considered to be the largest medical complex in the world, drawing more than 15 million visitors each year, the, the 18th story, 273-room luxury boutique hotel was designed to cater to the families of patients undergoing treatment in the TMC, as well as well as professionals visiting it on business.
Guests can enjoy two rooftop patios offering outdoor seating and views of the downtown skyline or of the Medical Center itself. Guests can also find Terrace 54 Bar + Table restaurant; a coffee shop; a 3,200-square-foot fitness center, an outdoor pool area, where guests can relax in the water or in a lounge where they can relax after a day of business or visiting a sick loved one.
However, all of the above somewhat pales in comparison when one learns that the Westin Houston Medical Center is the first U.S. hotel to use decontaminating robots. Opening under the shadow of the COVID-19 outbreak, the Westin Houston Medical Center added two LightStrike robots to enhance its current disinfectant protocol. These LightStrike Germ-Zapping robots use intense pulsed xenon ultraviolet (UV) light to kill viruses, bacteria, and fungi. The LightStrike robot has been proven effective at quickly deactivating Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus, just as it was proven effective at destroying Ebola virus and Candida auris.
After a guest checks out, their room is cleaned with both normal disinfectant protocols and a LightStrike robot. Operated by hotel staff, the robots use pulsed xenon, a noble gas, to create intense broad-spectrum UV light to quickly kill microscopic bacteria and viruses that the manual cleaning process might miss. The technology can clean a single guestroom in two or three cycles lasting two to three minutes each, depending on the room size.
The hotel’s current disinfectant protocol includes using hospital-grade cleaner in all public areas and guestrooms; disinfecting all consumable amenities in the guestroom including remote controls on-site and placing them in sealed bags for guest use; removing all non-essential items from guestrooms like magazines, collateral, and decorative pillows; cleaning public areas (restaurant, café, lobby, and meeting rooms) daily; and having a dedicated team member 24 hours a day to sanitize guest-facing public areas.
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