Allied health clinic cleaning sits in an awkward gap. A chiropractic, massage therapy or naturopathic practice is regulated, treats patients on skin-contact surfaces all day, and is expected to run an infection prevention and control routine — but it is not a hospital, and most cleaning companies quote it as if it were an office with a nicer waiting room.
It is neither. The surfaces are different, the products have to be right, and there has to be a record.
We clean the environment. Clinical work stays with you. Treatment rooms, tables and face cradles, floors, reception, washrooms and back of house are ours. Reprocessing instruments, needles, acupuncture supplies or cupping equipment — and every clinical duty — belongs to your practitioners under your College's requirements, with sharps through your licensed waste stream.
It is the same line we hold on dental, salon and pharmacy work, and it is worth having written into any cleaning contract you sign.
Three disciplines, one cleaning programme
The routine is broadly shared — skin-contact surfaces, DIN-registered products at full contact time, dirty-to-clean sequencing, a signed record — but each discipline has its own regulator and its own particular surfaces.
College of Chiropractors of Ontario (CCO)
Chiropractic clinics
The adjusting table is the whole job. Patients lie face-down on a cradle, their skin against the vinyl, one after another all day, and the paper does not cover the edges. Add therapy and traction equipment, hand contact points on drop pieces and headpieces, the rehab or exercise floor if there is one, and reception. Cleaned on schedule with the product and contact time logged, and the free chiropractic cleaning log shows the format.
College of Massage Therapists of Ontario (CMTO)
Massage therapy clinics
Tables, face cradles and bolsters, plus something no other setting has to the same degree: oil and lotion residue, which migrates onto furniture, walls, door handles and floors and which ordinary detergent smears rather than removes. Rooms are cleaned between the day's bookings and deep-cleaned on a cycle; the hand-wash sink and door handles get treated as high-touch, because they are. Linen handling normally stays with the clinic. Free massage therapy cleaning log.
College of Naturopaths of Ontario (CONO)
Naturopathic clinics
Closest of the three to a medical office. Treatment rooms cleaned to a clinical standard, plus the dispensary or supplement area where product is handled and stored, and any room used for procedures that carry their own requirements. Anything involving needles, instruments or clinical waste stays with your practitioners. Free naturopathic clinic cleaning log.
Why this is not office cleaning
| Standard office cleaning | Allied health clinic cleaning |
|---|
| Surfaces | Desks, incidental contact | Skin-contact surfaces — tables, cradles, bolsters — used by many people a day |
| Products | General-purpose cleaner | Health Canada DIN-registered disinfectant, correct dilution, full contact time, on a cleaned surface |
| Method | One cloth, one bucket | Colour-coded, dirty-to-clean, no re-dipping |
| Evidence | None | Signed log: area, product, DIN, contact time, who |
| Staff | Whoever is on the route | Vulnerable-sector screened, consistent crew, IPAC-aware |
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The record you keep
Every visit ends with a signed log — areas cleaned, products used with their DIN numbers, contact times respected, and who did the work. Yours to file, standard rather than a tier, and scoped so it is clear what we did and by omission what remained with your team.
Each discipline has a free printable log here too, useful even if you never hire us: chiropractic, massage therapy, naturopathic. If you have a washroom and staff, you also need a Bill 190 record — that one is the free washroom cleaning log.
What we do not do
- Reprocessing anything clinical. Instruments, needles, acupuncture supplies, cupping equipment — yours, under your College's requirements.
- Sharps and clinical waste. Licensed disposal streams belonging to your clinic and its carrier.
- Between-patient turnover. That happens in the two minutes between appointments and belongs to the practitioner; we do the scheduled clean underneath it.
- Certifying your compliance. We clean and we document. What your College asks of you is between you and them.
Allied health clinic cleaning — frequently asked questions
Do you clean chiropractic clinics?
Yes. Chiropractic clinics are a core part of this service — adjusting tables and face cradles, the surfaces a patient lies on face-down, therapy and traction equipment, reception and washrooms. The College of Chiropractors of Ontario (CCO) expects an IPAC routine in the practice, and what we contribute is the environmental half of it plus a written record. What the CCO asks of you as a registrant is between you and them.
Do you clean massage therapy clinics?
Yes. Massage therapy rooms are cleaned between the day's bookings and deep-cleaned on schedule — tables and face cradles, bolsters and covered surfaces, oil and lotion residue on furniture and floors, the hand-wash sink, and the door handles every client and RMT touches. The College of Massage Therapists of Ontario (CMTO) sets IPAC expectations for registrants; we clean to those expectations and leave you the log. Linen handling stays with your clinic.
Do you clean naturopathic clinics?
Yes. Naturopathic practices are cleaned to a clinical rather than an office standard — treatment rooms, the dispensary or supplement area, and any room used for procedures with their own requirements. The College of Naturopaths of Ontario (CONO) sets IPAC expectations for its registrants. We handle environmental cleaning and documentation; anything involving instruments, needles or clinical waste stays with your practitioners.
Is allied health cleaning different from office cleaning?
Yes, in three ways that matter. The surfaces are skin-contact rather than incidental — a face cradle takes a client's face on it all day. The products have to be Health Canada DIN-registered and left wet for their full contact time on a surface that was cleaned first, rather than wiped and dried. And there has to be a record, because "we clean daily" is not evidence. Standard janitorial cleaning does none of those three as a matter of routine.
Do you reprocess instruments, needles or acupuncture supplies?
No. Anything that touches a patient clinically — instruments, needles, acupuncture supplies, cupping equipment — is reprocessed or disposed of by your own team under your College's requirements, and sharps go through your licensed waste stream. We clean the environment those things happen in. It is the same boundary we hold on dental, salon and pharmacy work, and it is worth having in writing in any cleaning contract you sign.
What about laundry, linens and table covers?
Laundry usually stays with the clinic, because most practices have strong views about how their linens are handled and many use a service already. We clean the surfaces underneath and around them, including the trolleys and shelving where clean linen is stored, and we can work to a written split if you want part of it handled. Say so at the walkthrough and it goes in the scope.
Do you provide cleaning records?
Yes, and it is standard rather than an add-on. Every visit ends with a signed log: areas cleaned, products used with their DIN numbers, contact times respected, and who did the work. It is yours to keep on file. Each discipline also has a free printable log on this site —
chiropractic,
massage therapy and
naturopathic — downloadable with no commitment, including if you just want to hold your current cleaner to the format.
Can you clean between patients?
Between-patient turnover of the treatment surface is normally the practitioner's job, because it happens in the two minutes between appointments and cannot wait for a cleaning visit. What we do is the scheduled clean that sits underneath it — the room properly reset, floors,
high-touch points, washrooms and the deep clean on a cycle — plus the documentation. A day-porter arrangement is possible for a busy multi-practitioner clinic; ask at the walkthrough.
Can you work outside clinic hours?
Usually, and most clinics prefer it. Treatment rooms in use are not cleanable, and a vacuum running through a massage appointment is its own problem. Early mornings, evenings and weekends all work. Crews are consistent rather than rotating, and vulnerable-sector screened.
How is allied health clinic cleaning priced?
After a walkthrough. Treatment room count, how many practitioners and how heavily the rooms turn over, whether there is a gym or rehab floor, washroom count, floor type, days per week, and the hours. A single-practitioner room above a shop and a twelve-room multidisciplinary clinic are different buildings, and a phone quote treats them as the same one.
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