Slip and fall accidents are a serious public health problem, especially in the healthcare industry. According to statistics, a large portion of slip and fall victims are hospital patients and residents of long-term care facilities. Slip and fall accidents cost upwards of hundreds of thousands of dollars. They can cause serious injuries, and even death.
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Download Our Long-Term Care BookletRequest A Free Quote While some residential facilities use in-house laundries as a way to get the job done in a cost-effective way, the truth of the matter is that laundering costs are rising.
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The U.S. is dealing with one of the most dramatic healthcare shortages in the history of the country. A new report from a global healthcare staffing consultancy found that U.S. medical facilities will need to hire over 2 million new healthcare workers in the next five years in order to keep up with demand, especially…
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How clean are your medical linens, really? A study published in December 2018 by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America found that commercial laundering failed to remove Clostridium difficile spores from hospital bed sheets.
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New Brunswick, NJ, May 2019– For the past 6 years, the team at Unitex has been a major part and supporter of the New Brunswick School Kids Sweep-up Day. During this annual event, 5th graders from various New Brunswick schools removed litter around the school grounds and city streets. This year 1,680 pounds of litter…
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Managing residential laundry comes not only with a lot of responsibilities but a whole host of challenges unique to residential facility operations. And they can only get increasingly more difficult as your resident population increases!