Every industry has its “dirty little secrets.” In healthcare, a silence often surrounds the question of how regularly room-dividing curtains are cleaned. Health Facilities Management magazine called it “the elephant in the room” in their Jan. 6, 2016 edition. To address this challenge, Dan Weethee, owner of Apparel Master in Harrison, OH, combined his experience in healthcare-curtain processing with Scott Meyer, president of Simple Laundry Technology Inc. to produce a computerized curtain-tracking system. Weethee markets the system as Apparel Master Curtain Solutions. The software, dubbed “Simple Curtain Tracker,” documents processing and prompts routine washing. The results provide great benefits to ...