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  • MIP’s New Team Members

    MIP’s New Team Members

    MIP USA Inc. announced the addition of three new members to its team. As a worldwide supplier of healthcare textile solutions, MIP is dedicated to providing comfort and efficiency for the healthcare community. Alex Duke has been appointed as MIP USA’s Regional Textile Specialist, West Coast. With over 20 years of industry experience, holding high-level

  • Encompass Group – Textiles

    Encompass Group – Textiles

    Encompass Group is a leading manufacturer and marketer of healthcare textiles, healthcare apparel, patient warming and therapeutic support products for the healthcare industry with products designed to provide a safe and comfortable patient care experience and improved laundry efficiencies. Solutions include healthcare and hospitality textiles, healthcare apparel (patients and staff), replacement support surfaces, pillows, positioners,

  • Encompass Donates to Customers Affected by Hurricane Ida

    Encompass Donates to Customers Affected by Hurricane Ida

    Hurricane Ida devastated the state of Louisiana with state-wide damage unseen since Hurricane Katrina ravaged the area. Many customers of Encompass suffered damage to their places of work and homes. One of Encompass’ key partners in the state of Louisiana is Ochsner Health. The team at Ochsner saw several of their hospitals suffer significant damage

  • Berg Named Encompass VP Healthcare Textiles

    Berg Named Encompass VP Healthcare Textiles

    Encompass Group, LLC., a supplier of high-quality products to the healthcare market, has named Steve Berg Vice President, Product Strategy and Development, Healthcare Textiles. In collaboration with the Encompass internal sourcing and product teams as well as the external national sales organization, Berg will direct and support company-wide strategic sales and product development plans for

  • How IPs Affect a Hospital’s Bottom-Line with Effective Linen Strategy

    How IPs Affect a Hospital’s Bottom-Line with Effective Linen Strategy

    Note: This is one of a four-article series (links below) originally published in Infection Control Today and sponsored by the Healthcare Laundry Accreditation Council (HLAC). Reprinted with permission of HLAC. By Gregory Gicewicz and Janice Carter Larson In matters concerning healthcare textiles (HCTs), the focus of most infection preventionists (IPs) has logically been related to the

  • Steve Ripley IAHTM’s Award Recipient

    Steve Ripley IAHTM’s Award Recipient

    The International Association for Healthcare Textile Management (IAHTM) has named Steve Ripley a “2018 Lifetime Achievement’ recipient. The honor was presented at IAHTM’s annual meeting held recently in Naples, FL. Each year, IAHTM recognizes an individual with its Lifetime Achievement award for his or her career-long contributions to and accomplishments in the textile industry. Ripley is

  • HLAC Responds to UK C.diff Study

    HLAC Responds to UK C.diff Study

    The Healthcare Laundry Accreditation Council (HLAC) said in a recent release that wash processes that conform to the guidelines recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and which are a core component of the HLAC Accreditation Standards document, sufficiently reduce the possibility of exposure of laundry workers, patients and the hospital environment to Clostridium difficile (C diff) spores.