The focus on ensuring that linens used by patients and healthcare providers are free of pathogens and bacteria is a longstanding principle of infection-control groups, commercial laundries and independent organizations. These groups work to make sure that linen is not a source of hospital acquired infections (HAIs). Professionally certified laundries that service hospitals and medical clinics follow a strict set of standards and universally recognized practices to ensure that the linens are clean and pathogen-free. Independent organizations have created plans to protect the integrity of the processes and controls that healthcare laundries that joined would agree to follow. One unique ...