June 2013
| Business World Magazine | 49
Hospitals once dedicated huge segments
of facility space, time and personnel tending
to laundry needs. While the maintaining of
textiles is just as important at hotels as it is
at hospitals, the fact remains that hospitals
undergo greater regulatory scrutiny and
subject to stiff penalties when found non-
compliant, because people can
become gravely ill, or even die,
when proper procedures aren’t
followed. Yet, as Simmons also
asserts, the investment in re-
sources and setting aside of nec-
essary space to accommodate
laundry services increasingly
compelled hospitals to reevalu-
ate their approach. Those spac-
es could be dedicated to more
productive purposes in terms
of patient care. Even as hospi-
tals began waking up to the ad-
vantages of outsourcing, there
was an increasing proliferation
of private physicians opening
their own specialty clinics in
the late 70’s and early 80’s that
also needed specialized laundry
care. Throughout the shifting of
eras of operation, Morgan Services not only
responded to the opportunities, but resolved
to distinguish the quality of its services from
that provided by any other.
Morgan presently operates from more
than20 locations spanning theUnited States,
from Boston to California, processing more
