Linen management in healthcare: Industry best practices

Healthcare facilities are some of the busiest commercial establishments in Australia. Every day, healthcare service providers, ranging from private clinics to large hospitals, take in multiple patients for treatment. Thus, these establishments go through frequent replacements of linen inventory, which is crucial for patient use and to enhance their satisfaction levels while they are being treated.

Linen inventory is not only for use by patients but by hospital staff too. As such, maintaining an adequate stock of linen inventory is of critical importance, which linen managers are typically tasked with. However, ensuring a sufficient supply of linen inventory at all times can be challenging in itself, and may place linen managers under immense pressure.

In addition, ensuring adequate linen inventory stock levels is not the only task linen managers are responsible for. Healthcare facilities require the entire linen management system to be streamlined to keep their operations running smoothly. Let’s explore a checklist of the best practices in healthcare linen management, and how investing in linen management software can help them achieve this.

Bundle Connect is an advanced laundry management system that can help businesses avoid costly processing errors and streamline their laundry operations.

With its cloud capabilities, it is able to read information transmitted from an RFID chip embedded in a linen cloth. Information about a linen item’s location can then be relayed from the software in real time, reducing the likelihood of incidents of lost items due to theft or misplacement.

Bundle Connect significantly reduces a business’s expenditure needed to replace lost items. Its user-friendly features make it easy for customers to place their orders through the software.

This software is able to automate the billing, invoicing, and delivery requirements of linen orders to ensure a smooth and precise order-to-invoice process and can alert linen managers when stock levels have reached below the established par level.

This helps linen managers place an order for more linen inventory to avoid overstocking or understocking.

Linen managers can also gain insights into how many times a linen item has been laundered or when it is reaching the end of its shelf life, which helps in decision-making when it comes to the quality of linen used for everyday operations.