In 2015, researchers examined linens at a laundry facility that services six hospitals, 30 local outpatient clinics and the Washington National Primate Research Center, all located in the Seattle area ...

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 ...

The distraught parents of a premature baby are suing the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston after claims that an employee threw out their daughter’s body — days after she died — along with soiled ...

Everleigh Victoria McCarthy's parents sued Brigham and Women's Hospital on Thursday. "We don't want anybody else to go through this," Everleigh's mother, Alana Ross, said. A Boston couple are suing ...

Alana Ross and Daniel McCarthy, whose late child’s remains were lost, are suing Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Boston hospital where Ross gave birth, The New York Times reports. Ross gave birth to ...

The parents of a premature baby girl have claimed she was thrown out with soiled linen – just days after she died. Alana Ross and Daniel McCarthy’s daughter Everleigh was born in Boston on July 25 ...

Everleigh McCarthy's remains were "probably mistaken as soiled linens" by a hospital pathologist in the morgue, police stated in a report A couple whose newborn died days after her birth have filed a ...

New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Medical Center faces more than $201K in health and safety violations, after an Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigation revealed the ...

WEBVTT HAZEN WITH THETROUBLE JUST UNCOVERED.BOB.REPORTER: THAT SURPRISEINSPECTION REPORT DOESN'TACTUALLY MENTION MOLD, INSTEADIT'S ALL ABOUT BED SHEETS ANDPILLOW CASES WHICH SOME HAVESUGGESTED COULD ...

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 ...

UPMC Shadyside in Pittsburgh did not store clean and soiled linen according to proper standards, according to the findings of an unannounced inspection conducted by the Pennsylvania Department of ...

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 ...