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 ...

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 ...

Any negligence in following cleanliness protocols in the hospital can spread various infections to patients, hospital staff and doctors as well. But that possibility can be avoided with this new ...

Hospital linen supply and management services are facilities offered by third-party organizations to ensure proper hygiene of towels, screens, curtains, mattresses, blankets, pillow covers, bedsheets, ...

Laundry is a never-ending task. From scrubs to patient gowns to bed linen, reusable textiles account for much of a hospital’s energy use. So how do you know if that energy is being used most ...

There are fears the Royal Hobart Hospital will run out of clean linen this weekend as a result of troubles at Risdon Prison. The Health and Community Services Union (HACSU) said prisoners at Risdon ...

The Gauteng department of health has addressed the linen shortage at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital which was caused by the breakdown of the hospital’s in-house laundry machines. The ...