USA

The Healthcare Laundry Accreditation Council (HLAC), a non-profit organisation for inspecting and accrediting laundries serving hospitals and healthcare businesses, has extended the deadline for nominations for its board of directors for 2018-20. The deadline for nominations is 5 October.

The HLAC board of directors consists of four classes of directors. For 2018-2020, there are open positions in Class One, which represents textile maintenance companies (i.e. these are owner and/or operators of non-cooperative or in-house laundries) engaged in healthcare textile processing.