Every day when Ed McCauley of United Hospital Services LLC (UHS) comes to work, he faces essentially the same challenge: Finding ways to maintain the high-quality laundry production that the 11 hospital owners of this co-op demand, while at the same time controlling costs so that UHS, Indianapolis, can keep growing in today’s hotly contested healthcare market in the Hoosier state.
 
“We fight that battle all the time,” says McCauley, who has served as president/CEO of this 113,000 square-foot plant since 2002. “That’s my job when it comes down to Board meetings is to constantly make sure ...