First-ever Master Class a Success: Wrap Up and Event Photos

Thank you to everyone who joined us this past weekend for our sold-out Productive Practice Leaders 2022 Master Class. Members and guests came together March 17 and 18th at the Graylyn Estate in Winston-Salem to take a short break from their practices and gain some timely healthcare management professional development.

Productive Practice Leaders 2022 Master Class Participants

Led by leadership expert Mary Kelly, Ph.D., Commander, U.S. Navy (ret), attendees learned ways to successfully navigate crisis within the practice and were provided with proven tools to effectively manage and implement change. Master Class participants also enjoyed the beautiful setting of the Graylyn Estate and the invaluable opportunity to network with fellow practice managers in an intimate setting.

Thank you to Mary Kelly and all of our volunteers and participants who helped make this event a success. Thank you to our event sponsors Curi Advisory, Curi Capital, HandCraft Services and Sentinel Risk Advisors for supporting this first-time event.

Event Sponsors

Watch for announcements about our upcoming webinars coming soon and make plans to join us in Wilmington, May 18-20, for our 2022 Annual Conference.

Click here to see our event photos.

Register Today: Productive Practice Leaders Master Class is March 17-18 at the Graylyn Estate

NCMGMA’s Productive Practice Leaders
2022 Master Class

March 17–18 | Graylyn Estate | Winston-Salem, NC

NCMGMA is rolling out a brand-new opportunity for practice administrators, managers, and industry leaders with our Productive Practice Leaders 2022 Master Class.

Master Class Take-aways:

• Leaders’ Blind Spot Assessment.
• Tools, techniques, and templates you can immediately apply to run a more efficient and effective practice with less stress.
• Each participant will receive a hard cover book, Five-Minute Leadership Guide by Mary Kelly.
• 12-month Practice Managers Planning Guide along with 14 of the top 5-minute templates for greater efficiency and effectiveness.
• NCMGMA Productive Practice Leaders certificate of completion.

Master Class Program

The NCMGMA Productive Practice Leaders 2022 Master Class is a two-day leadership program designed to give healthcare practice leaders an opportunity to return to their practice with proven tools to be a healthier and more effective leader.  Take time for yourself and your professional development, and make plans to join us in Winston-Salem in March!

Thursday, March 17th

11:30am – 5:00pm
Lunch & Programming
Leading Medical Practices Through
Crises, Challenges, and Changes
Many healthcare leaders struggle with change because they cannot operate as efficiently and effectively as those who are focused on external factors. This class will work on strategic leadership and put into action tips, tricks, and tools to create the teams and teamwork needed to take your practice to the next level!

6:00pm
Butler Tour & Dinner
Take a stroll through the Manor House with one of the Graylyn Estate butlers. Learn the history of the estate, hear some of its intriguing stories and experience the true meaning of “spared no expense.” Afterwards, join fellow attendees for dinner.

Friday, March 18th

7:00am – 8:00am
Breakfast
Start the day with your fellow attendees. Enjoy a sit-down breakfast networking and preparing for another informative session from Master Class programming leader Mary Kelly.

8:00am – 11:30am
Programming
Communications, Staffing,
and Improvement!
No other industry has experienced the rate of change or the intensity of change as the medical community. Most people do not like change, and the uncertainty it creates can be exhausting. During this session, we will work on how we effectively manage and implement change, especially when we don’t particularly want to change ourselves.

Programming Leader

Mary C. Kelly, Ph.D.
Commander, U.S. Navy (ret)
CEO, Productive Leaders
Mary specializes in leadership growth that helps organizations improve their profitability and productivity, especially in finance, insurance, real estate, and manufacturing. One of the first female graduates of the Naval Academy, Mary served 25 years on active duty, mostly in Asia, leading multi-cultural teams in nine countries. Her remarkable career of service included working as an intelligence officer, a chief of police, an HR director, and a chief of staff, as well as training more than 40,000 military personnel.

Thank You to Our Event Sponsors

About the Graylyn Estate

The former residence of Mr. and Mrs. Bowman Gray, the estate is an extensive part of North Carolina history. Just minutes from downtown, Graylyn’s vast 55-acre property allows visitors to experience a world away from the bustle of city streets. A perfect combination of a modern, sophisticated conference facility and an enchanting, historic residence, Graylyn is sure to captivate from the moment you arrive.

Registration and Costs

There are only 20 seats available for this year’s Master Class course. Registration is INCLUSIVE of all meals and one night’s accommodation at the Graylyn Estate. The NCMGMA member rate is $799 and the non-member rate is $899.

Click here to register today!

Questions

If you have any questions about the 2022 Master Class, please contact the NCMGMA offices at info@ncmgm.org.

Save the Date: Productive Practice Leaders Master Class is March 17-18 at the Graylyn Estate

NCMGMA’s Productive Practice Leaders
2022 Master Class

March 17–18 | Graylyn Estate | Winston-Salem, NC

NCMGMA is rolling out a brand-new opportunity for practice administrators, managers, and industry leaders with our Productive Practice Leaders Certification through our 2022 Master Class.

Master Class Take-aways:

• Leaders’ Blind Spot Assessment.
• Tools, techniques, and templates you can immediately apply to run a more efficient and effective practice with less stress. These tactics are especially helpful during times of uncertainty.
• Each participant will receive a hard cover book, Five-Minute Leadership Guide by Mary Kelly
• 12-month Practice Managers Planning Guide along with 14 of the top 5-minute templates for greater efficiency and effectiveness.
• NCMGMA Productive Practice Leaders Certificate.

Master Class Program

The NCMGMA Productive Practice Leaders 2022 Master Class is a two-day certification program designed to give healthcare practice leaders an opportunity to leave the stress of the practice behind for a weekend so you can return to the office on Monday with proven tools to be a healthier and more effective leader.  We’ve chosen the Graylyn Estate because of its charm, its beauty and all of the wellness opportunities it affords you during your Master Class experience.  Take time for yourself, your career and your health, and make plans to join us in Winston-Salem in March!

Thursday, March 17th

11:30am – 5:00pm
Lunch & Programming
Leading Medical Practices Through
Crises, Challenges, and Changes
Many healthcare leaders struggle with change because they cannot operate as efficiently and effectively as those who are focused on external factors. This class will work on strategic leadership and put into action tips, tricks, and tools to create the teams and teamwork needed to take your practice to the next level!

6:00pm
Butler Tour & Dinner
Take a stroll through the Manor House with one of the Graylyn Estate butlers. Learn the history of the estate, hear some of its intriguing stories and experience the true meaning of “spared no expense.” Afterwards, join fellow attendees for dinner.

Friday, March 18th

7:00am – 8:00am
Breakfast
Start the day with your fellow attendees. Enjoy a sit-down breakfast networking and preparing for another informative session from Master Class programming leader Mary Kelly.

8:00am – 11:30am
Programming
Communications, Staffing,
and Improvement!
No other industry has experienced the rate of change or the intensity of change as the medical community. Most people do not like change, and the uncertainty it creates can be exhausting. During this session, we will work on how we effectively manage and implement change, especially when we don’t particularly want to change ourselves.

Programming Leader

Mary C. Kelly, Ph.D.
Commander, U.S. Navy (ret) CEO
Productive Leaders
Mary specializes in leadership growth that helps organizations improve their profitability and productivity, especially in finance, insurance, real estate, and manufacturing. One of the first female graduates of the Naval Academy, Mary served 25 years on active duty, mostly in Asia, leading multi-cultural teams in nine countries. Her remarkable career of service included working as an intelligence officer, a chief of police, an HR director, and a chief of staff, as well as training more than 40,000 military personnel.

Thank You to Our Event Sponsors

About the Graylyn Estate

The former residence of Mr. and Mrs. Bowman Gray, the estate is an extensive part of North Carolina history. Just minutes from downtown, Graylyn’s vast 55-acre property allows visitors to experience a world away from the bustle of city streets. A perfect combination of a modern, sophisticated conference facility and an enchanting, historic residence, Graylyn is sure to captivate from the moment you arrive.

Registration and Costs

There are only 20 seats available for this year’s Master Class course. Registration is INCLUSIVE of all meals and one night’s accommodation at the Graylyn Estate. The NCMGMA member rate is $799 and the non-member rate is $899.

Watch your email and the NCMGMA website for more details, including registration, coming soon!

How RFID is Revolutionizing Medical Linen and Uniform Management

2020 Alliance sponsor feature article courtesy of HandCraft Services

Managing your medical textile inventory is no joke. There are a number of complicated challenges involved with medical linens and uniforms, including cross-contamination hazards, linen loss, staff training, compliance with government regulations and fluctuations in inventory needs.

With these challenges in mind, many healthcare laundries and medical facilities are using a new technology to help streamline medical textile processing and inventory management: RFID.

What is RFID?

RFID, or Radio Frequency Identification, consists of two parts: an RFID tag or label and an RFID reader. RFID tags contain a microchip that can store and process information, along with an antenna that can send out signals using radio waves, and an item-specific serial number. The RFID reader will receive the signals from the RFID tag and transmit the read results to a computer program or other accessible interface.

In the healthcare textile setting, RFID tags are sewn into uniforms, linens and other textile items, allowing the healthcare laundry and medical facility to access valuable tracking and processing information about each unique item.

While healthcare professionals worry about RFID’s effects on electromagnetic equipment necessary for healthcare, like MRI machines, as well as its effect on patients, many healthcare laundries use RFID chips that are non-ferrous (meaning that they do not contain any iron or steel) and are non-magnetizing (meaning that they do not create a magnetic field or are affected by magnetic fields), rendering these chips completely safe for use in healthcare settings and for patients.

3 Reasons Medical Facilities are Using RFID

There are multiple benefits that come along with an RFID textile management system. Here’s why this technology is growing in popularity among medical facilities:

1. RFID improves operational efficiency.
Efficiency is of the utmost importance in the healthcare industry, and the bottom line is that you can’t afford to let your healthcare linen and uniform needs slow down your operations. However, you also can’t afford to slack off when it comes to managing your healthcare textiles, because they’re essential to the daily function of your medical facility.

RFID helps with this issue by making inventory management easier overall. There’s no more counting by hand every single item in your inventory, because RFID can keep track for you.

An RFID system prevents order errors because each order is electronically filled at the processing plant, so you’re not left in a panic because the wrong number or type of item was delivered. You won’t run out of stock, which eliminates the need to cancel procedures due to a lack of inventory. Your time can be spent focusing on other aspects of the healthcare practice, because RFID is counting and managing your inventory for you, eliminating mix-ups and making sure that you always have the items that you need.

2. RFID reduces losses.
One of the reasons that healthcare linen and uniform management is so crucial is that the healthcare industry loses millions of dollars every year because of misplaced or stolen textiles. Whether your patients are taking towels with them or your employees are throwing out linens because they think they’re too soiled to be laundered hygienically, RFID can prevent losses by helping you to pinpoint the source of losses faster, allowing you to create contingency plans to eliminate these costs and save money in the long run.

Additionally, RFID can keep track of how much linen you’re using on any given basis, giving you a long-term picture of your facility’s needs and fluctuations in use. You can create customized inventory tracking reports that allow you to adapt to your facility’s linen and uniform demands, so you can eliminate excess inventory that you’re paying for but don’t actually need or increase your inventory as your facility is growing so that you won’t run out.

3. RFID gives you more time to focus on your patients.
At the end of the day, the point of improving operational efficiency and reducing losses is to be able to spend more of your resources on your patients. With improved inventory management through RFID, keeping track of your healthcare linens and textiles is just one less thing that you have to focus on that doesn’t relate to patient care. Both you and your employees will be able to spend more time working with patients and improving their health, not worrying about how many towels are in your storage area.

Simply put, you get access to the data that you need to make informed decisions for your healthcare facility without putting in hours and hours of work that would’ve been better spent figuring out how to best care for your patients and grow your medical practice.

Introducing RFID

Click image for a larger view

If you’re considering switching to a medical linen or uniform program that utilizes RFID, it’s important to do your research. Not all RFID programs are the same. For example, some programs only track uniforms, or may not provide comprehensive or easily-accessible usage reports, or may use RFID chips that contain ferrous or magnetizing materials. Before selecting an RFID-based linen or uniform program, make sure you know what benefits of an RFID program are most important to your facility and choose a program that emphasizes those benefits.

Additionally, make sure that any healthcare laundry you’re considering has enough experience with RFID to make this technology beneficial to you. As with any new initiative, working out the kinks can take some time, and you don’t want your medical facility to be a test subject.

Whether RFID is the right choice for your facility or not, it’s an amazing time in the healthcare industry when technology is being used to transform tasks like medical inventory management, leading to a better and healthier future for our communities. Hopefully, the future holds more innovations like RFID that allow medical practices to focus on patient care instead of management tasks.

HandCraft Services offers the highest-quality medical linen and apparel products, along with highly efficient services.

Our products can minimize your costs, enhance your facility’s image and improve overall patient and staff satisfaction. With high-tech systems and technologies, HandCraft sets the pace for healthcare linen. From using copper-infused, anti-microbial fabric to using RFID chips to track inventory, we stay on the leading edge of our field, so you can stay on the leading edge of yours.

For more information, visit us online at handcraftservices.com or give us a call at 888.358.8671.

Paper Patient Gowns vs. Cloth Patient Gowns: Which is Better for Your Business?

2020 Alliance sponsor feature article courtesy of HandCraft Services

Sometimes making decisions for your healthcare business can be easy, but other times something like patient gowns can turn out to be difficult to navigate.

It’s the same old question: do you want something convenient and disposable or something that requires more work but is higher quality?

Let’s go over the pros and cons of both paper patient gowns and cloth patient gowns so you can make the right decision for your healthcare business.

Paper Patient Gowns

• Pros: Paper patient gowns are a very convenient option. Once they’ve been used, they can simply be thrown away, which means that you won’t have to do any laundering. Also, they’re cheaper per unit than their cloth counterparts.
• Cons: Paper patient gowns are single-use products, which means that all the money you spend on them gets thrown out with each gown. Plus, paper patient gowns contribute to overall waste and aren’t a sustainable option in terms of the environment. Finally, paper gowns make patients feel less comfortable in healthcare settings, leaving them feeling exposed and vulnerable.

Cloth Patient Gowns

• Pros: Cloth patient gowns are far more comfortable for patients, helping them to feel more empowered when it comes to their care and giving them a better experience overall with your healthcare facility. They’re also better for the environment, as they can be reused over and over again for different patients before reaching the end of their useful life. The reuse aspect also means that you’re getting more for your money, since you’re not throwing out each item once it’s been used once.
• Cons: Cloth patient gowns will require laundering in order to get the full benefits of the product, which may mean slightly more management. However, with the right medical linen service partner, like HandCraft, keeping track of and laundering your cloth patient gowns will be a breeze.

Easier Patient Apparel Management with HandCraft

When you work with HandCraft, you won’t have to worry about laundering your cloth patient gowns. Our medical rental program gives you the products you need when you need them, cleaned to the highest industry standards so that you can uphold the strictest hygiene and cleanliness standards for your healthcare business. With HandCraft, you can take advantage of all of the benefits of cloth patient gowns without any of the extra work. Plus, we offer a variety of other medical linen and apparel services and products​ for your business.

To learn more about what HandCraft can do for you, contact us today!

How to Reduce Contamination in Patient Rooms

2020 Alliance sponsor feature article courtesy of HandCraft Services

Today’s alarming virus outbreaks, the prevalence of ​antibiotic resistance and ​hospital-acquired infections​ call for changes in the way that we deal with contamination in our medical facilities. Even simple disinfecting procedures that have been in place for so long have proven inadequate in fully curtailing the problem. In some cases, they have even been found to be ​contributing to the problem​.

Maintaining patient room hygiene is more important now than ever. Here are some changes you can adopt in your patient room management routine to help reduce contamination:

1. Identify hotspots inside patient rooms.
Certain areas within a patient room harbor more bacteria than others. These are the areas that get frequently touched, are often neglected in the cleanup and disinfecting process and/or get exposed to bodily fluids. Areas that need more focused and frequent cleanup include:

• Handrails
• Bedside Chairs and Tables
• Beds
• Linens

2. Encourage hand hygiene.
The hands are some of the dirtiest parts of the body. They can ​contain and sustain an ecosystem of germs, bacteria and viruses,​ including the dreaded MRSA as well as the more common ones that cause diarrhea and hand-foot-mouth disease.

Because people are always using their hands, germs get passed along easily. This makes hand washing the single most effective deterrent against most infections and contamination, especially in healthcare settings like patient rooms.

Encourage frequent hand hygiene inside the rooms by providing easy access to hand soap and warm water as well as alcohol-based sanitizer. Disinfect thoroughly and frequently, particularly in the areas that get touched by multiple hands throughout the day like door knobs and light switches.

3. Your floors matter more than you think.
Floors are some of the dirtiest surfaces anywhere, especially in medical facilities. This makes floor cleanliness even more crucial because of the presence of ill and vulnerable people. Because the majority of contaminants on the floor come from tracked-in dirt from shoes, the ​right type of floor mats might help limit the debris dragged inside the rooms. When it comes to floor cleaning, your choice of cleaning tools matters just as much as your disinfecting solutions.

Microfiber ​mops​, for instance, have been proven ​more effective​ in eliminating bacteria than their cotton counterparts. The laundering of floor mops is also an essential step in reducing contamination in patient rooms, as these mops eventually get contaminated with whatever pathogens they’ve picked up off of the floors.

Utilizing a ​professional mop service​ is one way to ensure not just reliable, expert cleaning for these delicate items but also the integrity of the mops.

4. Rethink your laundry procedures.
Linens like bed spreads, blankets and towels come into direct contact with ill patients and are often exposed to bodily fluid in the process. Poor handling before, during and after use as well as at any stage of the laundry procedure can contribute to contamination.

Crucial to these procedures are the handling and transporting of used linens as well as the transportation and storage of clean ones. Find a ​medical linen service provider​ that can help you with cleaning, maintaining, storing and handling your soiled linens.

5. Secure your medical apparel.
Studies show that dangerous bacteria can end up on ​scrub suits​ and ​white coats​. And they can be contaminated within hospital settings as much as they can in public. This makes allowing medical personnel to take them home for laundering dangerous to both the public and patients.

Medical apparel must be treated with as much care and attention as hospital-use linens when it comes to washing, handling and storage so that they don’t become inadvertent culprits in the contamination of patient rooms.

Help is Within Reach with HandCraft!
Reach out to HandCraft Linen and Uniform Specialists today to learn more about how we can help you keep your patient rooms clean and safe. Call us at (888) 358-8671 to speak with a consultant and learn more about our services and products!

How RFID is Revolutionizing Medical Linen and Uniform Management

2019 Alliance sponsor feature article courtesy of HandCraft Services

Managing your medical textile inventory is no joke. There are a number of complicated challenges involved with medical linens and uniforms, including cross-contamination hazards, linen loss, staff training, compliance with government regulations and fluctuations in inventory needs.

With these challenges in mind, many healthcare laundries and medical facilities are using a new technology to help streamline medical textile processing and inventory management: RFID.

What is RFID?

RFID, or Radio Frequency Identification, consists of two parts: an RFID tag or label and an RFID reader. RFID tags contain a microchip that can store and process information, along with an antenna that can send out signals using radio waves, and an item-specific serial number. The RFID reader will receive the signals from the RFID tag and transmit the read results to a computer program or other accessible interface.

In the healthcare textile setting, RFID tags are sewn into uniforms, linens and other textile items, allowing the healthcare laundry and medical facility to access valuable tracking and processing information about each unique item.

While healthcare professionals worry about RFID’s effects on electromagnetic equipment necessary for healthcare, like MRI machines, as well as its effect on patients, many healthcare laundries use RFID chips that are non-ferrous (meaning that they do not contain any iron or steel) and are non-magnetizing (meaning that they do not create a magnetic field or are affected by magnetic fields), rendering these chips completely safe for use in healthcare settings and for patients.

3 Reasons Medical Facilities are Using RFID

There are multiple benefits that come along with an RFID textile management system. Here’s why this technology is growing in popularity among medical facilities:

1. RFID improves operational efficiency.
Efficiency is of the utmost importance in the healthcare industry, and the bottom line is that you can’t afford to let your healthcare linen and uniform needs slow down your operations. However, you also can’t afford to slack off when it comes to managing your healthcare textiles, because they’re essential to the daily function of your medical facility.

RFID helps with this issue by making inventory management easier overall. There’s no more counting by hand every single item in your inventory, because RFID can keep track for you.

An RFID system prevents order errors because each order is electronically filled at the processing plant, so you’re not left in a panic because the wrong number or type of item was delivered. You won’t run out of stock, which eliminates the need to cancel procedures due to a lack of inventory. Your time can be spent focusing on other aspects of the healthcare practice, because RFID is counting and managing your inventory for you, eliminating mix-ups and making sure that you always have the items that you need.

2. RFID reduces losses.
One of the reasons that healthcare linen and uniform management is so crucial is that the healthcare industry loses millions of dollars every year because of misplaced or stolen textiles. Whether your patients are taking towels with them or your employees are throwing out linens because they think they’re too soiled to be laundered hygienically, RFID can prevent losses by helping you to pinpoint the source of losses faster, allowing you to create contingency plans to eliminate these costs and save money in the long run.

Additionally, RFID can keep track of how much linen you’re using on any given basis, giving you a long-term picture of your facility’s needs and fluctuations in use. You can create customized inventory tracking reports that allow you to adapt to your facility’s linen and uniform demands, so you can eliminate excess inventory that you’re paying for but don’t actually need or increase your inventory as your facility is growing so that you won’t run out.

3. RFID gives you more time to focus on your patients.At the end of the day, the point of improving operational efficiency and reducing losses is to be able to spend more of your resources on your patients. With improved inventory management through RFID, keeping track of your healthcare linens and textiles is just one less thing that you have to focus on that doesn’t relate to patient care. Both you and your employees will be able to spend more time working with patients and improving their health, not worrying about how many towels are in your storage area.

Simply put, you get access to the data that you need to make informed decisions for your healthcare facility without putting in hours and hours of work that would’ve been better spent figuring out how to best care for your patients and grow your medical practice.

Introducing RFID

Click image for a larger view

If you’re considering switching to a medical linen or uniform program that utilizes RFID, it’s important to do your research. Not all RFID programs are the same. For example, some programs only track uniforms, or may not provide comprehensive or easily-accessible usage reports, or may use RFID chips that contain ferrous or magnetizing materials. Before selecting an RFID-based linen or uniform program, make sure you know what benefits of an RFID program are most important to your facility and choose a program that emphasizes those benefits.

Additionally, make sure that any healthcare laundry you’re considering has enough experience with RFID to make this technology beneficial to you. As with any new initiative, working out the kinks can take some time, and you don’t want your medical facility to be a test subject.

Whether RFID is the right choice for your facility or not, it’s an amazing time in the healthcare industry when technology is being used to transform tasks like medical inventory management, leading to a better and healthier future for our communities. Hopefully, the future holds more innovations like RFID that allow medical practices to focus on patient care instead of management tasks.

About the Author:

HandCraft Services offers the highest-quality medical linen and apparel products, along with highly efficient services. Our products can minimize your costs, enhance your facility’s image and improve overall patient and staff satisfaction. With high-tech systems and technologies, HandCraft sets the pace for healthcare linen. From using copper-infused, anti-microbial fabric to using RFID chips to track inventory, we stay on the leading edge of our field, so you can stay on the leading edge of yours.

For more information, visit us online at handcraftservices.com or give us a call at 888.358.8671.

Linen 101: Teaching Your Hospital Staff How to Conserve Linens

2018 Alliance sponsor article courtesy of HandCraft Services

While the first step in preventing linen loss is to work with a professional linen management service, educating your employees about linen management in hospitals is an important second step.

Unfortunately, your staff is part of the linen loss problem. Common causes of linen loss include staff accidentally taking home scrubs or other linens, throwing out linens they think are too heavily damaged to be cleaned, or allowing linens to leave the facility during patient transfers. Although well intentioned, these habits are costing you money.

The reality of the situation is that cracking down on these behaviors is going to be difficult. Every day on the job, your employees are saving lives. Making sure the parents don’t take the baby blanket home with the baby isn’t going to seem like a priority to your staff. Any new policies may appear unnecessary and overbearing.

Here are a few ways to effectively educate your staff about linen management in hospitals:

1. Start with your managers.

To get everyone on board with new linen management policies, you have to start with the leaders. Meet with them to discuss how these policies are going to be implemented in each unit or department. Explain the purpose of the changes and get their feedback on the situation. What works in the neonatal unit might not work in the ICU!

2. Hold mandatory linen awareness sessions.

Many of your staff might not even know that your hospital has guidelines for using linens or even a linen service provider. Take 20 minutes out of their day to educate them on the problem of linen loss and how it impacts the environment. Talk about your hospital’s guidelines for linen use and infection control. Make sure to provide some incentive for attending the session.

3. Use signs and posters to remind employees of their training.

All the educational sessions in the world won’t make a difference if your employees don’t remember to toss that soiled sheet in the laundry bag instead of the trash can. Make sure that all of your receptacles are properly labeled and place educational reminders in or around key places like the linen cart, trash can and break room.

4. Provide incentives for units that reduce their linen loss.

To get your employees enthusiastic about conserving their linen use, consider holding a contest between the units and departments of your hospital to see who can reduce their linen loss the most.

Learning Takes Time

Unfortunately, breaking your hospital employee’s bad linen habits may take some time. They might still grab for that sheet to clean up a spill or accidentally wear their scrubs home. So, have some patience. It can take anywhere from 18 days to 8 months to form a new habit.

Hopefully, by implementing our suggestions and working with a reliable linen management company like HandCraft, you can reduce linen loss in your facility by educating your employees about linen management in hospitals.

HandCraft Services
Website: http://handcraftservices.com
Phone: 804-358-8671
Email: petehastings@handcraftservices.com
Medical Practice Location: 2828 Cofer Rd, Richmond, VA 23224
Hospital Location: 2810 Cofer Rd, Richmond, VA 23224