April 2015 | Business World 143 care and wellbeing. “Healthcare is changing and becoming more outpatient care and there are more surgery centers. Therefore a cooperative laundry or a healthcare laundry in today’s industry will not survive, sole processing hospital laundry,” Berge said. Guided by a Board of Directors representing various healthcare organizations in the region, Shared Hospital Services provides economies of scale that help their longstanding partners secure services, savings, efficiencies and enhanced safety measures through automation and mechanical technology implementation. New to the position, Berge has begun to instill his philosophy within the organization. “We’ve been going through a maintenance push for the last eight months. This has entailed getting the equipment back up to where it needs to be,” he said. “We have the automation and have added individual pieces to help us become more productive. Although old technology but new to us – the RFID chipping of specialty garments and specialty products ensures we can better serve our customers with accountability of product.“ “We want to protect ourselves, also,” Berge continued. “If the customer has something that they’re purchasing and they want us to wash as a specialty good, we can track it and know that it arrived at the laundry and we delivered it back. We are looking at that kind of technology.” HEALTHCARE LAUNDRY ACCREDITATION COUNCIL (HLAC) Handling and processing more than 15 mil-
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