FDR Services's Official Response to the Coronavirus.
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Take no chances and make no mistakes. When it comes to managing your medical linen inventory, you’ll need a partner like FDR Services to protect your medical facility from threats to the integrity of your patient care services.
Now more than ever, it’s important to ensure the linens and uniforms in your medical facility are truly clean. With the Coronavirus impacting every sector of society, there’s no such thing as being too cautious or thorough. There’s more at stake than the wellbeing of your employees and patients; your whole business relies on clean materials. A quality medical facility laundry provider could be your answer.
We want to reassure you that we’re in this with you. FDR Services is always here to support you and your business. Here’s what we’ve been up to!
There are some misconceptions surrounding what comprises adequate healthcare linen service. Some think supplying clean items is all it takes. Sure, hygiene and safety are the most important, but they’re also the bare minimum. Your medical linen service provider should deliver more than that. Medical linen management a vitally important consideration.
Cleanliness is important in every aspect of a business. For the medical profession, that importance can become a matter of life and death, especially during these challenging times.
In these challenging times, we want you to know that we are here for you. If you have been laid off due to COVID-19, consider applying for a position with FDR today!
To our valued customers, In these times of uncertainty, we want you to know that the safety and health of our employees and customers is always our top priority. Now more than ever, our business is you.
Nationally, the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has caused not only illness and death but also major economic uncertainty, as supply chains are brought to a standstill. As known cases grow in our area, FDR is continuing to implement existing and new solutions that will allow us to maintain the service levels that you expect. As we continue to monitor the situation, which is changing daily, we are in discussions with our vendors, working on securing additional products that we fee l will be in critical supply due to manufacturing and supply chain interruptions.
We are doing everything possible to ensure that we continue operations as the situation changes. Our plants ALWAYS strictly follow all TRSA, CDC and HLAC guidelines for safely processing contaminated linens. With an overabundance of caution, we are reviewing and reinforcing these practices and procedures. We have developed contingency plans that allow our plants to serve as backup for each other. This redundancy of operations and logistics will hopefully allow our service levels to proceed uninterrupted.
The key to continuing our successful partnership is based on the foundation of increased communication. If your facility is developing new safety procedures as to how our deliveries will be managed, please communicate these new policies to your Account Executive immediately. Many of our customers have already reached out to us to define new directives for their soil pickup and clean deliveries.
As some of our customers are now preparing for treating patients with a positive diagnosis of the coronavirus (COVID-19), we are being asked how to handle the soiled linen from these patients. We request that all potentially contaminated linen being returned to FDR for processing be put in separate soil bags and handled in separate soil linen bins. Please notify your account executive and identify the linen bin as containing linen potentially exposed to the Coronavirus (COVID-19).
We ask for this special handling in the interest of extreme caution. FDR follows Universal Precautions on a routine basis in the handling of soiled linen to protect against both known and unknown pathogens and will continue to exercise industry best practices.
As always, we are committed to upholding the highest standard of cleanliness by continuing to work closely with Diamond Chemical, our chemical partner. Diamond Chemical has shared their own best practices and the latest products that may be useful to combat the spread of COVID-19.
As we continue to monitor developments and navigate through these challenging circumstances, we want you to know that you can rely on us always to put your health and safety first. Thank you for trusting FDR as your linen partner. If you have any questions regarding the COVID-19 outbreak and its effects on the healthcare linen industry, please contact your Account Executive or call 1-800-FDR-0097.
Linen quality is one of the biggest issues that medical facilities of all types and sizes usually experience. It’s one thing to try to get high-quality, clean, safe linens. It’s another to get them consistently. Is there any way you can guarantee getting the same, reliable quality of linens for your facility?
Employees and patients taking linen and uniforms is an expensive problem in the medical industry. Between employees taking uniforms home and patients keeping linens, nearly $840 million worth of medical linens and uniforms go missing every year.
From impressive renovations to the importance of linen management, FDR Services is always one step ahead when it comes to providing high-quality services. Here’s what we’ve been up to!