Purity Linen Service

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405 Myrtle St
02746 New Bedford, Stati Uniti
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Why Switch to a Linen Rental Service?
As the linen service industry has adjusted to market conditions, many changes have happened over the course of time. Several segments of the linen service industry such as Food and Beverage (where the primary business is table linen), have long been in a linen rental scenario. This has allowed the restaurant industry to be more focused on what they do best–serving food to their customers–and not have to worry about other distractions such as linen.
Over the past twenty years the healthcare industry has been going through a similar evolution and the ability to better utilize staff to focus on patient care has become increasingly the primary focus; services that are not directly related to that core objective have been removed, minimized, or out-sourced whenever possible. This has fostered a professional vendor environment to grow, allowing linen service businesses to become highly knowledgeable and industry responsible.
But beyond the broad history noted above, there are many specific reasons why healthcare has transitioned to a linen rental environment. We have listed below several of the advantages and reasons our customers have chosen Purity as their linen rental service vendor:
EASE OF OPERATION
When the linen inventory is owned by the linen company (“linen rental”), the customer no longer has to spend valuable time ordering, receiving, and storing new linens. Frequently, staff persons spent significant time labeling linen with the facility’s name on a heat seal machine—a process that is no longer necessary.
When a facility’s census spikes, it is not necessary to scramble for linens or place hasty new linen orders. A call to the linen supplier to increase the next delivery is all that is necessary; conversely, if activity goes down, a phone call, fax, or email to reduce the order size is typical.
The linen service now bears responsibility to cull worn, torn, and stained linens from circulation. It is no longer necessary to have facility staff perform mending/rag duties.
During emergency situations a healthcare linen service will have proper backup equipment on-site to compensate for the loss of major utilities. Additionally, pre-arrangements will be made with other locations to serve as a backup service in cases of major need.
FACILITY CONSTRAINTS
As healthcare customers have grown in size they have historically looked to utilize space in the most efficient manner possible and one of first decisions that many hospitals and long-term care facilities made was to eliminate one of the largest out-source-able cost centers - the laundry. It has been determined in nearly all scenarios that the space occupied by the laundry was more valuable in revenue potential versus the money it saved.
As has been the case with many long-term care facilities there have been significant concerns regarding the sewage discharge and many facilities that are located in more rural locales are typically outfitted with septic systems that are prohibitively expensive to enlarge or replace. The removal of the laundry can reallocate thousands of gallons a week back to usage by the residents with a far lower risk of system degradation from laundry chemicals.
Historically equipment installed in an on-premise laundry may not have the ability to reach washing and drying temperatures that are required for proper disinfection and cleaning of linens as specified by healthcare standards. A linen service has the equipment and infrastructure necessary to reach 160°F in washing and 325°F in the drying and ironing temperatures. Additionally, a linen service will have constant monitoring of the chemical composition of its linens to ensure that proper fabric pH is reached to ensure that there is minimal potential for skin reactions or bed sores.
LOWER OPERATING COST
Larger processing plants and more automated equipment, while requiring greater capital investment, have greatly assisted in holding or trimming annual cost increases. Increased plant productivity and lower utility expenses have kept typical market service quotations fairly near where they were a decade ago.
Linen service companies spend, literally, millions of dollars per year on purchases of new replacement linens. This purchasing power results in lower acquisition costs and can therefore be passed on to a company’s customers in replacement costs.
Standardization of linen products and pooled production of linens have also assisted in keeping processing costs low by maintaining higher machine work area outputs than could otherwise be accomplished by “keep separate” stop-and-go operations.
VENDOR CONSOLIDATION
Since the 1990’s there have been significant reductions and consolidations of both commercial and on-premise laundry plants that process healthcare linens. This reduction in processing locations was caused by negative economic pressures in the overall healthcare industry; technological improvements in high volume, automated processing equipment and, therefore, larger plants; and aggressive competition.
The remaining active regional healthcare laundries can, but not without complication, process smaller Customer-Owned Goods accounts. These larger plants process 4,000 to 8,000 pounds of linen per hour; automated equipment systems are not easily conducive to “keep separate” batch processing; multiple employee languages, reading & writing skills require simplifying operational procedures. All the major plants have transitioned to rental linen systems.
Do you know the Real Cost of operating your Laundry Room?
Even after all the noted history regarding healthcare customers as moving away from a Customer-Owned Goods format and on-premise laundries, it is going to be a non-issue unless there are also cost savings in converting to a linen rental service. In order to help you determine the real cost of operating the laundry room, we assembled this list to allow you to correctly determine the true cost of a laundry room versus a linen rental scenario.
The costs of operating a Laundry are often difficult to realize because they are dispersed across many departments such as maintenance, housekeeping, general labor, utilities. Purity has designed its business to obtain the best possible utility usage, achieve the highest possible productivity, and in doing so deliver the most cost effective price to our customers.
Payroll – Laundry Labor in loading/unloading equipment & folding
Payroll – Support Labor in supervision or maintenance staff
Employee Benefits – Health Ins., Workers’ Comp., Vacations, etc.
Laundry Chemicals – Detergents, Bleach, Softener, Alkali, Sour, etc.
Repair Services – Contractors or Repair Technicians
Small Repair Parts – Pads, Belts, Lubricants, Bearings, etc.
Major Repair Parts – Electrical Controls, Motors, Gearboxes, etc.
Laundry Supplies – Hangers, Bags, Carts, etc.
Linens – Sheets, Blankets, Bath Towels, Washcloths, etc.
Capital Equipment– Periodic replacement of washers & dryers
Utilities – Water, Natural Gas, Electricity, Propane, or Oil
Waste– Sewerage or Septic System
Facility Space – Area dedicated to entire laundry operation
Many of our customers do not have the space or workload to support the large equipment necessary to process linen to a high degree of efficiency and the lowest possible production cost but when multiple organizations outsource their laundry services to a linen rental vendor, our customers can take advantage of these efficiencies.
Our facility is approximately 50,000 sq. ft. in size, and in 2012 we employed over 100 people in our workforce, production, maintenance, specialty services, and transportation. We have multiple redundant systems (Washers, Dryers, Boilers, and Compressors) to ensure the delivery of our products; we even have a 750kW backup generator in case the region loses power. In 2012 we shipped out 17 million pounds of linen to our customers.
Meet with us, and see how much you can save with Purity Linen Services.

405 Myrtle St New Bedford

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