Laundry Operations
SORTING, WASHING, EXTRACTION, DRYING, FOLDING, DELIVERY
What are the 6 categories of The Laundry Operation?
These are Dilution, Agitation, Temperature, Chemicals
What are the four components of sanitizing linen?
This is the tool Account Managers use to track how many loads of soiled linen are being processed daily
What are Wash Load Counts?
There are 5 Steps to a proper Linen Inventory. This is the appropriate time of the day to start Step 1, which is to drop all soiled linen down and stop all clean linen from delivering up
What is Late morning, after all the beds have been made?
Following facility admissions policy, this is how we identify who owns each personal linen item
What is Labeling of Personals?
What is Sorting?
These are the required PPE items that must be worn when sorting and processing soiled linen
What are Eye Protection (Welder's mask), Protective Apron, Protective Gloves?
Since Laundry workers are responsible for cleaning the laundry department, this tool is used by Account Managers to fairly distribute cleaning duties and schedule cleaning responsibilities
What is the Laundry Cleaning Schedule?
This is Step 2 of a Linen Inventory, typically done after caregivers have gotten all their residents up for the day. Since most resident's beds are made using a flat sheet, pillowcase, fitted sheet, thermal blanket or spead.... we can quickly account for linen in resident rooms
What is Counting The Beds?
This is used to determine a resident's room and bed number in order to ensure items are delivered to the correct location
What is a Resident Roster or Masterboard?
These are the four components of a good Wash cycle
What are Proper mechanical action, proper water temperature, proper chemicals, proper length of cycles?
This is the required duration of time a laundry worker must thoroughly wash their hands after handling soiled linen
What is 20 seconds?
This tool is used by Account Managers to track and monitor linen loss by tracking soiled linen entering our system and clean linen delivering out of our system
What are In and Out Counts?
This is Step 3 of a Linen Inventory, which is generally takes the most time
What is Count the Laundry Room?
The part of he process when we must determine whether or not the facility or the family is doing the personal laundry
What is the collection of soiled personal linen?
The act of treating all soiled linen that comes into our laundry department as if could be contaminated with infectious material
What are Standard Precautions (aka Universal Precautions)?
This is where laundry workers would put any type of sharp object or needle that comes into our laundry
What is a Sharps Container?
This document that is required for the laundry aide to fill out accurately on a daily basis is used by the Account Manager to determine if the set par levels are adequate for the nursing staff to provide care to our residents.
What is the linen delivery log?
This is Step 4 of a Linen Inventory, where it's also important to consider linen that's been discarded or recently ordered
What is Counting Linen Storage?
These personal linen items must be kept in the laundry dept for a duration of time to be determined by facility policy, and after that amount of time need to be donated out of the facility
What are Unlabeled Personals?
This is the main purpose of having Bleach in the Wash Cycle
What is de-staining, or keeping white linen white?
The method HCSG uses when removing soiled linen from an isolation room
What is the Double Bag Method?
This tool is used by the Account Manager to properly document our laundry worker completing a task after each load that aids in dryer performance and is essential to fire safety
What is a Lint Trap Cleaning Log?
The final Step 5 of a Linen Inventory, completed after you've totaled all your counts
What is Place monthly Linen Order so as to replenish your 3PAR levels?
This is the industry standard for Personal Laundry turn around time
What is 48-72 hours?