CLEANING & HYGIENE
virtually eliminate the problem of
laundry service providers can
“Established
lost laundry for care homes.”
away the hassle of having to manage laundry in-house and can be tailored to meet the exact needs of the business with a bespoke collection and delivery schedule. It also frees up a considerable amount of time that can be spent on completing other tasks in the home.
laundries and are instead calling on outside companies to offer a more dependable and straightforward method of meeting their linen and laundry needs.
Established laundry service providers can virtually eliminate the problem of lost laundry for care homes. Berendsen, for instance, uses sophisticated electronic labelling and scanning technology that traces every item throughout the entire laundering process all the way back to its individual owner. Each garment has a label attached which has the resident’s name printed on, and also an electronic code which can be scanned in to the company’s systems to track the garment through the process and which ensures, for example, that it receives the appropriate wash process. Laundry bags, which the company provides and which are also washed, have
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“As well as keeping on top of the sheer volume of washing to meet residents’
personal needs, on- site laundries are also often fraught with complications.”
electronic RFID tags embedded in them so that they can be scanned and tracked.
Outsourcing also delivers many other benefits to nursing and residential homes. Most fundamentally, it takes
Meanwhile, leading laundry companies use the latest high quality equipment to guarantee an ultra efficient service where equipment breakdowns need not be a cause for worry, as they have multiple machines and often multiple sites to ensure complete consistency. Critically, they process laundry to an exceptionally high level of hygiene to ensure compliance with best practice guidelines for infection control, such as the Department of Health’s CFPP 01-04 policy on the decontamination of linen for health and social care.
Considering the potential upset for residents and the threat to business reputation that lost item incidents present, changes must be implemented in many care homes to improve the reliability of in- house laundry operations. However, changes which require more time and manpower often lead to higher costs. With outsourcing having taken huge steps towards eliminating the incidence of missing personal items, perhaps working with a reliable laundry services provider is the better option for homes across the country.
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