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Published 07/01/2009 - 9:34 a.m. CT
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| Ray Supak |
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WACO, Texas — Ray D. Supak, 61, retired textile care manager for the Waco VA Medical Center, died May 17 at a local hospital, according to the Grace Gardens Funeral Home Chapel.
Supak was a Registered Laundry and Linen Director (RLLD), a former facilitator at the American Laundry & Linen College (ALLC), and a member of the Association for Linen Management (ALM), the association reports. He served 37 years at the Waco VA Medical Center before his retirement, according to a published obituary.
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Published 06/30/2009 - 9:49 a.m. CT
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| Photo: iStockphoto.com/Michael Kurtz |
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LANCASTER, Ohio — A hospital security officer was able to disarm and detain an off-duty employee armed with a handgun near the Fairfield Medical Center’s laundry department after the suspect confronted another employee who works there, according to a news report posted on the hospital’s website.
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Published 06/29/2009 - 9:51 a.m. CT
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Two Brown & Brown subsidiaries have completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Irving Weber Associates Inc.
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Published 06/26/2009 - 9:59 a.m. CT
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“What criteria should I establish to rag out or discard linen? Also, do you recommend a multistep process to make this determination, or should one pass per item be enough to decide whether it stays or goes?”
Consulting: Tom Mara, Victor Kramer Co., Oceanport, N.J.
As a consultant to the healthcare and hospitality segments for more than 36 years, I can verify that, in fact, almost everyone has a different opinion as to rag-out standards. Unfortunately, in my experience, many of these so-called “standards” aren’t founded on the basis of justifiable economies.
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Published 06/24/2009 - 10:46 a.m. CT
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“What criteria should I establish to rag out or discard linen? Also, do you recommend a multistep process to make this determination, or should one pass per item be enough to decide whether it stays or goes?”
Textiles: Elizabeth Easter, Ph.D., University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky.
Serviceability of a textile product in the institutional environment depends on meeting five major factors or requirements:
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