All types of businesses served by the textile services industry require hygienically clean goods. Healthcare facilities seemingly face the greatest risk from receiving items that aren’t perfectly sanitary, though, because of potential liability for spreading infection. Presumably, these customers are most comfortable with launderers who specialize in healthcare work. Historically, the industry has met this demand with laundries 100% dedicated to processing for such accounts, or plants with separate machinery and areas for this market only.
 
Today, healthcare laundry is less of a specialty as textile services operators with a variety of markets add “retail medical” to ...