USA
Healthcare laundry Shared Hospital Services (SHS) of Portsmouth, Virginia, successfully passed a voluntary inspection of its complete textile processing cycle, paving the way for re-accreditation by the Healthcare Laundry Accreditation Council.
HLAC is a nonprofit organization that inspects and accredits laundries that process reusable textiles for hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare facilities.
SHS re-accreditation is good until 2020. Charles Berge, SHS president and general manager said: "The process of getting HLAC accreditation makes us a stronger team – smarter and more competent in the processing of healthcare textiles. This, in turn, enables us to provide our customers with an improved level of service that ultimately benefits patient safety. It enables us to become an important partner to our customers' infection prevention strategies."
