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 ...

Kleen Inc. closed its West Lebanon, N.H.-based plant June 28 with less than two weeks’ notice, forcing over a dozen hospitals in Vermont and New Hampshire to find a quick solution to obtaining clean ...

The male baby was stillborn April 4 His body was taken to the morgue and wrapped in linens The sheets were mistaken for dirty laundry RED WING, Minn. — Police are trying to trace events that led to a ...

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 ...

Workers at a Henderson laundry facility were startled Tuesday morning to find two 16-week-old fetuses in a shipment of linen from an area hospital. Henderson police spokeswoman Kathleen Richards said ...

WALKER -- Hospital scrubs are hot. Those cozy, blue, breathable garments are the No. 1 theft item for a local co-op laundry firm providing all clean linens and clothes worn by medical professionals ...

Hospital Laundry Services announced it will move its operations and headquarters to Wheeling from Chicago’s Northwest Side, bringing about 450 jobs. The company, which launders and supplies linens for ...

A New York City hospital exposed workers to laundry contaminated with blood and other bodily fluids and didn’t follow up with other employees who had treated tuberculosis patients, according to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The night after Esmeralda Hernandez delivered her stillborn, premature baby in April 2013, she kept the tiny boy close by in her hospital room overnight.

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 ...