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 ...

WALKER -- Hospital scrubs are hot. Those cozy, blue, breathable garments are the No. 1 theft item for a local co-op laundry firm providing all clean linens and clothes worn by medical professionals ...

The male baby was stillborn April 4 His body was taken to the morgue and wrapped in linens The sheets were mistaken for dirty laundry RED WING, Minn. — Police are trying to trace events that led to a ...

There’s a lot of behind-the-scenes work that goes on at hospitals and some of it is laundry. About 12 years ago, Texas Healthcare Linen was formed in Abilene to handle laundry from local and regional ...

Henderson, NV (Las Vegas Review-Journal) — Workers at a Henderson laundry facility were startled Tuesday morning to find two stillborn babies in a shipment of linen from an area hospital. A Henderson ...

Workers at a Henderson laundry facility were startled Tuesday morning to find two 16-week-old fetuses in a shipment of linen from an area hospital. Henderson police spokeswoman Kathleen Richards said ...