How important is educating hospital staff to correctly identify stained and/or damaged linens and return these items to the laundry?

"Collecting stained and damaged linen and returning it to the laundry has many benefits to healthcare facilities. Thus, it is crucial to educate healthcare workers on proper reject-linen procedures. First, reject programs mitigate exposure to loss charges by reducing replacement costs and avoiding unnecessary trash and medical-waste disposal charges. Second, removing reject linen from circulation improves the linen pool, thereby enhancing the patient experience. There’s also an environmental benefit: Reject linen can be recycled or repurposed, which helps to reduce resource consumption and plays an important role in protecting our planet."

—Quron Gee, Vice President, Account Management | Unitex ...

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