ImageFIRST recently announced the acquisition of Southern Medical Linen Service, a Tucker, GA-based provider of linen service to the outpatient and high-touch inpatient healthcare sectors. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed, according to a news release.
A recent article that was published in the American Journal of Infection Control recommends the use of reusable personal protective equipment (PPE) such as medical gowns for healthcare providers, especially during surge-capacity situations, such as those experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic.
TRSA’s latest webinar presentation, titled “Production and Maintenance Manager Job Analyses,” highlighted the association’s recently released Maintenance Manager Job Analysis Report and the Production Manager Job Analysis Report. Both items are available at www.trsa.org/store.
TRSA President & CEO Joseph Ricci recently wrote an article titled “How Linen and Laundry Choices Influence Hotel Sustainability” for Hotel Executive, a business publication for hotel owners and operators, including senior executives, directors, managers, investors and developers.
Additional recent headlines from consumer media of interest to linen, uniform and facility services operators, and especially readers of Textile Services Weekly.
TRSA’s office in Alexandria, VA, will remain closed on Monday, May 31, in observance of Memorial Day. Regular business hours will resume on Tuesday, June 1.
A linen, uniform and facility services company in Canada was recently fined $120,000 for an incident in which an employee was struck by a company vehicle in the parking lot.
Mounted on a wall on the office of Paul Jewison, general manager of Textile Care Services (TCS), Rochester, MN, is a large wooden aircraft propeller that he earned for excellence in plant management from the Healthcare Laundry Services Group (HLSG), TCS’s corporate parent. Few who know Jewison would question that for 28 years he’s been the “propeller” that drives TCS – in terms of both leadership and innovation. Those qualities were critical in TRSA recognizing this facility as a “Plant of the Year’ in 2020. Below we preview a June article on TCS in Textile Services magazine.
As the owner’s daughter, she’d worked hard all her life. She had skills and ideas for growing the family business. She felt she’d earned a shot at the top job. Dad disagreed. He was convinced that a man – a son-in-law would do – should get the top job. Only when he passed away did the daughter get her chance to lead the company. She’s run the business successfully for years since then and never looked back. This was one of many stories that 25 female laundry operator and supplier partner executives shared during a two-hour TRSA Virtual Roundtable on May 19.
TRSA recently completed the final installment of its two-part webinar series titled “Racial Equity and Workplace Culture.” The series was presented by TRSA’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee.
