Chicago, IL

Bernhard Moos Elementary School

As a dual-language and International Baccalaureate school, Bernhard Moos Elementary prepares students in Pre-K through eighth grade to become change-makers in the world through an environment that nurtures cultural pluralism and service-oriented learning.

Specifically, the school’s global citizens promote diversity while becoming bilingual, biliterate communicators and multicultural agents of change who advocate for a peaceful world. But with 428 students set to return to in-person learning after months of remote education due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the school needed to make sure its building was optimized to create a safe and hygiene-friendly learning environment.

When touring another nearby school, Bernhard Moos Elementary principal Lauren Degiulio noticed Sloan Mobile Handwashing Stations and knew that they would be the perfect solution to help promote hand hygiene beyond the restroom at the school when students and faculty returned.

That’s when—with the help of the Wood Family Foundation and its work to empower students and their families—Sloan donated a mobile handwashing station to the school. With this new access to hand hygiene outside of the restroom, the elementary school has been able to successfully welcome back students without any COVID-19 outbreaks.

Market

Education

Location

Chicago, IL

Touch-free Handwashing

The Sloan Mobile Handwashing Station provides Moos Elementary students with an entirely touch-free handwashing experience with sensor-operated faucets, enMotion® paper towel dispensers, and Purell® CS-8 wall-mounted foam soap dispensers. The station features a stainless steel deck and a stainless steel drop-in sink that pairs attractive design with enhanced hygiene.

Handwashing on The Go

For Moos Elementary, handwashing became on the go at the school cafeteria. As a high-traffic area adjacent to the school’s outdoor lawn and playground, as well as where students and faculty gather to eat lunch inside, the cafeteria has multiple groups of students coming and going simultaneously. The mobile handwashing station helps maintain a proper flow of traffic to keep students safe. Now, the school’s students are able to wash their hands at either the mobile handwashing station or in the school restrooms before eating or after coming inside from recess. This has proven to not only divert high traffic volume away from the restroom, but also makes social distancing more manageable in the restroom. The mobile handwashing station also provides a sensor-operated outlet for students to fill up their water bottles without a line backing up at the water fountain.

Products in this case study

MH-3000

Mobile Handwashing Station 1-Station Free-standing-Mounted Sink

“Sloan’s mobile handwashing station has been a huge benefit to our school as we’ve welcomed students back to campus. Our cafeteria is the perfect location for the handwashing station, and it has helped us to promote health and wellness for hundreds of students.”

LAUREN DEGIULIO

PRINCIPAL, BERNHARD MOOS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL