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
Advancing the Adoption of Reusable Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in Healthcare
Download this whitepaper from Laundry Services to discover how reusable personal protective…
Association of periOperative Registered Nurses Articles
This content is an exclusive benefit for TRSA members. If you’re a…
Curbing the Infection Risk of Healthcare Garments
This content is an exclusive benefit for TRSA members. If you’re a…
Disposable to Reusable Gowns
Guidelines for healthcare facility decisionmakers to follow as they pursue an end-to-end…
Ecosystems Analysis Compares Reusable, Disposable HCTs
Reported from a 2024 workshop conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease…
Environmental Safety in Outpatient Care
This content is an exclusive benefit for TRSA members. If you’re a…
Epidemiologist’s Technical and Critical Review
This content is an exclusive benefit for TRSA members. If you’re a…
Finding Value in the Hospital Lab
This content is an exclusive benefit for TRSA members. If you’re a…
Textile Services Magazine Articles
Market Pulse Check
F&B NYC’s Late-Night Dining Scene Revives In recent months, Blue Ribbon Brasserie,…
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
Netherlands Launderers—Two High-Tech Plants With Varied Missions
Here are profiles of two plants that are focused on both efficiency and sustainability in hospitality and healthcare.
OR Reusables: Innovations Benefit Caregivers
Infection control is a relatively modern concept, and the idea of choosing…
Outpatient Care: Medico Long Beach Catches the Wave
Medico Healthcare Linen Service’s Long Beach, CA, plant is operating at near…
Outpatient Medical—‘We Continue To See New Opportunities’
Outpatient healthcare is growing largely because technology is making it possible to do more complex medical procedures without overnight hospital stays. While the growth of nonacute care varies by region, laundry operators can capitalize on this trend by applying a comprehensive yet flexible approach—whether they specialize in healthcare or have mixed plants.
Positek RFID’s Inexpensive Solution For Reducing Textile Costs
Scrub cabinets from Positek RFID allow healthcare facilities to reduce textile costs associated with scrub loss by accurately and efficiently tracking scrub distribution, identifying high usage areas, and reducing the PAR level needed for scrubs. This allows healthcare facilities to redeploy labor to more important areas, while eliminating loss and improving overall bottom line.
