After numerous calls and meetings, an outreach effort by Hospital Cooperative Laundry in Denver recently delivered major dividends in the form of COVID-19 vaccinations for its more than 200 staff members. We often hear about the importance of employee engagement. The same goes for forging close ties with your community and its leadership.

Kurt Koenig, general manager for the plant owned by area hospitals but managed by Foussard Montague Associates Inc., a TRSA member based in St. Paul, MN, advised other laundries that want to get their teams inoculated against COVID-19 to work proactively and persistently to get the job ...