In the midst of the current economic downturn, many TRSA members have looked to health-care as an opportunity to grow their businesses. In recent years, the quality and cost-effectiveness of laundry outsourcing have fueled growth in this sector.
 
It wasn’t always that way. In the late 1960s, on-premise hospital and co-op laundries, like the one featured above, were more common than they are today. TRSA’s former Executive Director, the late John Contney, understood the challenges posed by in-house laundry facilities. In 1968, he wrote an article on a Los Angeles co-op, the Hospital Associated Supply Services Corp ...