Can a laundry specialize in outpatient textile services alone, without doing inpatient hospitals as well?

"What we’ve seen is that these big hospital systems have solely used one primary vendor to service the bulk of the hospital business. To service the main facility and any off-site units that are associated with a hospital, we’ve seen them use as many as four different vendors in the mix. Now, we’re experiencing a hospital system that we’ve had for five years and they’re saying ‘We want to get you all the business, we want to go and route to one vendor for all of our off-site service.’ We said OK, so it’s been a slow transition because they ...

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