It was difficult for Grady Health System in Atlanta to keep adequate supplies of fresh linen during the worst of this year’s influenza attack.
But the coompany it hired got the job done, according to an article on the WABE website.
“It’s Grady’s [contracted] linen service that makes clean linens happen,” Lori M. Wood, director of emergency management for Grady, said. “They were able to step up to the demands during the worst of the season.”
Linen-related infection problem is very unusual, said Dr. Tom Chiller, a CDC infectious disease expert, but keeping linen free of pathogens “is something we’ve got to think about.
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