Jennifer Elsensohn, CEO of Associated Hospital Services, laughs intermittently as we discuss rebuilding efforts at the 48,000- square-foot healthcare co-op laundry she oversees in New Orleans. 
 
Of course, Elsensohn doesn’t think what she’s experienced since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast in August 2005 is by any means funny. Rather, her sardonic sense of humor helps her cope with a situation—make that situations—that would have driven less resourceful/determined textile service managers out of the business long ago. 
 
REVITALIZED BY REINVESTMENTS 
 
The plant Elsensohn now directs reopened five years ago this month ...