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30 | Business World Magazine | March 2013
Walter Benjamin, the esteemed philosopher and literary critic, once defined wis-
dom as the “counsel woven into the fabric of real life.” In terms of the real life ser-
vices that occur every day in the healthcare industry, there is a company whose
counsel and capabilities are so woven in fabrics that it is recognized today as a
particularly wise option for achieving cost and energy savings.
When one typically considers hospital oper-
ations, the immediate thought may be of the
doctors, the nurses, and all the various imple-
ments used to poke, prod and produce any
number of diagnostic objectives. But in the
midst of all that activity, consider the range of
linens, from towels and washcloths, to sheets
and those often unflattering patient dressing
gowns. The caretaking of all that linen sup-
ply generates routine costs as significant as
some of that state-of-the art equipment with
the beeping lights. A number of healthcare