Hospital linen safety: From laundry to patient and back Last month it came to light that five children at Children's Hospital in New Orleans died in 2008 and 2009, from a fungal infection most likely ...

Nearly every patient who enters a hospital comes in contact with its linens: towels, sheets, patient gowns and more. And while a number of organizations have guidelines about how such linens should be ...

LAS VEGAS — Authorities say a Las Vegas hospital mistakenly sent two dead babies wrapped in linens to a laundry facility, leading to a grisly surprise for the cleaners. The remains were in a load of ...

TUPELO – When the work day’s done in Tupelo, her family’s laundry isn’t the first thing on Judy Murphy’s mind. “Uh, no,” she said. That’s not a surprise. Dealing with piles of dirty laundry probably ...

LOWER MANHATTAN — Hospital laundry workers rallied in Lower Manhattan Wednesday, calling on their employer, Unitex, to provide them with two masks a day and the ability to social distance 6 feet apart ...

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When Thembisile Nogampula was admitted as a patient at Livingstone Hospital on March 24 this year, he says he was allocated a bed but no sheets and pillows. There were other patients in his ward who ...

When Thembisile Nogampula was admitted to Livingstone Hospital in Gqeberha on 24 March this year, he says he was allocated a bed, but no sheets and pillows. There were other patients in his ward who ...