ImageFIRST Partners with Temporary Overflow Medical Facility

ImageFIRST Healthcare Laundry Specialists, King of Prussia, PA, recently announced that it has begun providing linen services to a temporary 1,000-bed overflow facility designed to care for COVID-19 patients.

To prepare for a potential influx of patients from the novel coronavirus, the TCF Center in downtown Detroit has been converted into a 1,000-bed medical facility. The intent is to help with potential overflow from local hospitals utilizing about a third of the riverfront convention center – roughly 250,000 square feet of space across two floors.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers made the recommendation and the construction is funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The linen service provided by ImageFIRST is to help address the coronavirus pandemic. The company began services on April 6.

“In these unprecedented times, we must do our part to help these front-line healthcare heroes who are combatting this pandemic,” said Jim Cashman, president of ImageFIRST. “This is not our typical client partnership, but we were proud to find a way to help them.”

Over the past few weeks, the company has been delivering on numerous requests from its customers; many looking to add or increase scrubs, secure scrub storage, clean their cubicle curtains or get reusable isolation gowns as a direct result of the pandemic. ImageFIRST also has been working with many other healthcare providers, not currently serviced by the company, who are struggling to keep up with the heightened linen demand in these difficult times.

“We are seeing an increasing number of hospitals switching from disposable paper items to reusable linen due to the intensified concern over infection control,” Cashman said. “With our infection prevention laundering and service processes, all of which exceed industry standards, we are very confident that we can provide their patients and staff with safe, sanitized linen and uninterrupted service.”