I believe the purchase of National Linen by ALSCO means that a number of healthcare facilities will be changing vendors over the next several years.
ALSCO doesn’t feel that servicing hospitals falls into its field of expertise. Unless ALSCO changes its corporate philosophy, a highly unlikely event, it’ll be looking to shed a number of hospital accounts over the next several years. I’ve been told that ALSCO will honor existing contracts but that it’s not interested in extending or renewing any of them.
