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 ...

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 ...

New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Medical Center faces more than $201K in health and safety violations, after an Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigation revealed the ...

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 ...