Marketing Tools
Downloadable assets that members can use to promote the industry, their market sector and their company including videos, customizable promotional flyers and social media posts.
Industry Recovery & Expansion Data
View sample pages from TRSA's Market Recovery and Expansion Research related to the healthcare industry's priorities for linen, uniform and facility services purchasing. Use this B2B decision-maker and consumer intelligence to strategize marketing and communications to the acute care and specialty medical markets. Get the complete report on the research, covering the healthcare market and all linen/uniform customer industries.
Training
TRSA offers a range of training materials for your healthcare market.
Healthcare Production Training Series
Textile Services Archive: Healthcare Laundering
Precautions for Protection Video (English)
Precautions for Protecting (Spanish)
Research
Use this research to support marketing and communications to the healthcare market.
Certification
Achieving Clean Green and Hygienically Clean Healthcare designations provides third-party verification of sustainability and cleanliness in linen, uniform and facility services operations, building credibility in the healthcare market and improving efficiency.


On-Demand Learning
Use with prospective hires or production employee training; videos demonstrate sorting, washing, drying, finishing and packing out healthcare items. Preview recorded webinars on production - like Producing Hygienically Clean Textiles - sales and service and other topics; watch them at your own pace.

Healthcare Conference
The TRSA Annual Healthcare Conference is the premier laundry industry event focused on hospitals, surgery centers, medical offices, nursing homes and other medical facilities. This event attracts nearly 200 executives, decision makers and influencers from independent, regional, national and international operators responsible for processing more than 90% of North America’s healthcare linens and garments. Sessions cover most aspects of healthcare laundering operations and developments in patient care delivery, materials management, certification, infection control, regulation, plant systems, textile products and more.
Long-Term Care Outreach Materials
Direct prospects to a webpage to quickly calculate annual savings from shutting down their OPLs, use a whitepaper to explain why the time is right for this change and leave behind a sales booklet that summarizes the whitepaper points.

On-Premises Laundry Calculator
This utility enables hospitals, long-term care and other healthcare facilities with OPLs to input their spending on a variety of laundry expense items. They determine their per-patient-day costs of laundering linen and uniforms for comparison with the same costs incurred by linen service providers.
Healthcare Resources
Association of periOperative Registered Nurses Articles
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Curbing the Infection Risk of Healthcare Garments
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Disposable to Reusable Gowns
Guidelines for healthcare facility decisionmakers to follow as they pursue an end-to-end…
Environmental Safety in Outpatient Care
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Epidemiologist’s Technical and Critical Review
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Finding Value in the Hospital Lab
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Guidance from Association of Surgical Technologists
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Guidance from National Health Service (England)
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Textile Services Magazine Articles
Isolation Gowns Notes From The Front Lines In The Fight For Reusables
The late Nate Belkin of Fashion Seal is credited with coining the phrase “The future isn’t disposable.” While that may seem obvious to laundry operators, convincing hospitals to make a permanent shift away from all-disposable isolation gowns is difficult, according to operators and supplier partners we spoke with recently. But many are nonetheless continuing the fight by seizing on recent COVID-fueled shortages of “iso gowns” in order to “change the narrative” on how hospitals perceive the case for reusables.
Lac-Mac: Pioneering Protective Garments For Healthcare & Industrial Customers
Lac-Mac was established in 1920, and is located in London, Ontario, Canada. We are a Pure Play manufacturer of reusable textile products.
We are pleased to announce our corporate re-branding to ‘R.MOR PROTECTIVE WEAR™ By Lac-Mac’. This new brand better reflects what we do—manufacture high-performance protective products made using various barrier fabrics.
Managing The Laundry Logistics Cycle With Abs Laundry Business Solutions
For years, laundries have had the challenge of optimizing the entire logistics cycle of linen management.
The most important challenges are:
Optimizing the circulation speed of linen
Avoiding shortages and stockpiling at customer locations
Optimizing cart and truck loads
Reducing linen and scrub loss
Tracking the use of carts at customer locations
Managing The Laundry Logistics Cycle with ABS Laundry Business Solutions
For years, laundries have had the challenge of optimizing the entire logistics cycle of linen management.
The most important challenges are:
Market Trends Expanding Into Long-Term Care Facilities
In late November 2018, nearly 200 linen, uniform and facility services executives gathered outside Charlotte, NC, for TRSA’s 7th Annual Healthcare Conference. The two-day event featured a wealth of education, networking, and plant tours specifically designed for healthcare operators and associates. On the first day of the event, Mike Lang (process analyst, Unitex, Elmsford, NY) and Liz Remillong (vice president, strategic alliance, Crothall Healthcare, Wayne, PA) gave a presentation titled “Expansion into the Long-Term Care Market.” This article summarizes their findings.
Markets in Motion: Post-COVID Shifts
Operators weigh in on challenges and opportunities in various sectors amid inflation, hygiene concerns and more.
Morgan Services/Cleveland—Sealing the Deal with Service, Quality & Trust
We profile a storied plant and highlight how they’re thriving amid challenges for food and beverage operators