NOVO Health Services, Atlanta, announced the acquisition of EcoBrite Linen, Chicago, on Dec. 5. EcoBrite is a provider of healthcare linen and laundry services for long-term and acute-care facilities.

The acquisition marks NOVO’s investment in EcoBrite’s leadership and its customer-centric approach to healthcare linen services, with the goal of expansion in the market, according to a news release.

“This is an exciting time for NOVO and for EcoBrite,” said Karl Fillip II, president and CEO of NOVO Health Services. “We both have a common goal of improving the patient and resident experience, and together, with the team already in place at EcoBrite, we can service more healthcare facilities throughout the Chicagoland area.”

EcoBrite was founded in 2015 to provide an outsourced laundry solution for the long-term care industry. While most hospitals in Northern Illinois outsourced their laundry at that time, less than 5% of nursing homes did so. EcoBrite was launched to fill that void and offer turnkey healthcare linen and laundry service for nursing homes and hospitals at a lower cost than other competitors or on-premise laundry options. EcoBrite developed several proprietary technologies that ultimately resulted in improved service levels, higher customer satisfaction and lower overall costs, the news release noted. The success generated by these technologies at EcoBrite’s long-term care facilities quickly translated into expansion into the acute-care hospital market, which drove eight consecutive years of growth for EcoBrite.

“We’ve been impressed with the management team at EcoBrite and know this will be a great partnership,” Fillip said. “EcoBrite’s focus on efficiency, consistency and higher quality control mirror those of NOVO, and we look forward to helping expand the reach of EcoBrite throughout the region.”

Brian Polatsek, founder of EcoBrite Linen, said that, “We are truly honored to become part of NOVO. I look forward to the melding of our disruptive approach with the industry’s best to create something spectacular.”

For more information, visit www.novohealthservices.com.

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