TRSA President and CEO Joseph Ricci recently wrote a cogent, factually based guest opinion for Becker’s Hospital Review that defended commercial laundries against unjustified claims made in a series of legal actions filed on behalf of patients at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). These lawsuits claim that linens were a source of the harmful Rhizopus mold blamed for their deaths.
 
“The CDC (Centers for Disease Control) and Pennsylvania Department of Health did not implicate linens as a source of mold that infected the UPMC patients and both agencies stated they would not investigate further,” Ricci ...