Nearly every patient who enters a hospital comes in contact with its linens: towels, sheets, patient gowns and more. And while a number of organizations have guidelines about how such linens should be ...

Improving laundry process can help fight hospital infections: 7 best practices To achieve and maintain hygienic and clean quality healthcare fabrics and textiles, proper laundering and handling are ...

Hospital linen safety: From laundry to patient and back Last month it came to light that five children at Children's Hospital in New Orleans died in 2008 and 2009, from a fungal infection most likely ...

If you’ve ever been a patient in a hospital in the Lehigh Valley region, chances are you’ve been touched — literally — by HCSC. Allentown-based Hospital Central Services Cooperative most likely ...

PITTSBURGH — Families of two organ transplant patients who are blaming their deaths on a mold outbreak at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center hospitals are now also targeting the hospital's linen ...

The following article was originally published in Preventing Infection in Ambulatory Care, the quarterly e-publication from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology ...

According to the American Reusable Textile Association, 2 to 3 percent of a hospital’s budget is spent on laundry and linen services. Benchmarking is one of the most important aspects of cost. There ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Shortcomings in hospital linen reprocessing, delivery and intake were identified as a potential route of ...

Patients at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital have corroborated media reports that the hospital is experiencing heaps and piles of dirty linen. The hospital's laundry woes came into light last ...