The Healthcare Laundry Accreditation Council (HLAC) has named Kristen (Krissy) Thayer Executive Director, effective April 18. Thayer will replace longtime Executive Director Regina Baras, who has served in the role for 11 years and who is voluntarily stepping down. Thayer will be supported by Jessica McKenna, Deputy Director, in addition to other support staff provided by Nonprofit …
The Healthcare Laundry Accreditation Council (HLAC) is beginning the nomination process for its 2022-2024 board of directors. The HLAC Board Application, available on HLAC’s website, are being accepted immediately with a deadline of Oct. 1, after which nominations will no longer be accepted. “If there’s any silver lining to the coronavirus pandemic, it’s from the …
The Board of Directors of the Healthcare Laundry Accreditation Council (HLAC) has voted Rocco Romeo as President-Elect, according to a news release. On January 1, 2022, Romeo will assume the duties of board president of HLAC, a nonprofit organization formed for the purpose of inspecting and accrediting laundries processing healthcare textiles for hospitals, nursing homes …
The second report in a series from the Healthcare Laundry Accreditation Council (HLAC) provides an overview of the proper processing procedures required to preserve the advantages of reusable microfiber cleaning products, specifically wipers and mops, according to a news release. Available at HLAC’s website, the free downloadable report is a useful resource to help healthcare professionals …
The Healthcare Laundry Accreditation Council (HLAC) is marking its 15th year in 2021 as a nonprofit organization that inspects and accredits laundries that process reusable textiles for hospitals, nursing homes, and other healthcare facilities. HLAC, incorporated in 2005, began actively inspecting and accrediting laundries in 2006 in response to years of requests from textile professionals …
The Healthcare Laundry Accreditation Council (HLAC) is making available its online audio/video presentation of the recent webinar, “How Monitoring Keeps Your Laundry Processes Effective, On Target and Safe.” The one-hour webinar, which was held Aug. 14, is available on HLAC’s website and also on YouTube. “Our webinar was a big hit, we’re happy to report,” said HLAC …
The Healthcare Laundry Accreditation Council (HLAC) cautions that improperly laundered linens can raise the risk of the spread of infection in senior living facilities. In a recent HLAC release, it says that its standards provide viable infection control safeguards to those facilities looking to tackle pandemic challenges and beyond. This, as the senior living industry …
The Healthcare Laundry Accreditation Council (HLAC) recently announced final-phase testing of its new HLAC Laundry Process Monitoring ToolKit(TM) (PMTK). The toolkit is a new innovation in laundry testing and process analysis that is capable of recovering accurate representations of viable organisms (bioburden) on healthcare textiles; and quantifying the sources of potential environmental contamination on textiles …
A new resource is available from the Healthcare Laundry Accreditation Council (HLAC) called the HLAC Laundry Process Monitoring Toolkit™. It validates the effectiveness of a laundry’s processes by measuring the number of microorganisms found in a laundry on hard surfaces, in the air, on linen, in the water and on employee hands. Final phase testing of …
Note: This is one of a four-article series originally published in Infection Control Today and sponsored by the Healthcare Laundry Accreditation Council (HLAC). Reprinted with permission of HLAC. Links to all articles can be found below. By Gregory Gicewicz, John Scherberger and Lynne Sehulster, PhD An effective healthcare laundry solution, like having hospital textiles processed …
