Introduction
 
For the past several years the number of laundries disillusioned with the Healthcare Laundry Accreditation Council (HLAC) has increased, according to reports received by TRSA. At the same time, TRSA’s Hygienically Clean (HC) has become the fastest growing healthcare laundry certification. Frankly, this fact is not surprising. TRSA created HC in response to healthcare launderers’ and their customers’ demand for a standard that not only incorporated best practices and operational standards, compliance with government regulation and independent inspection, but also quarterly microbiological testing by independent testing labs with results reported to both the laundry and the ...