Quebec laundry cuts labor costs and improves quality

摘要

For the past 50 years, Partagec, Inc., owned and operated by the Canadian province of Quebec, has collected soiled linen from hospitals, nursing homes, and other healthcare facilities in the greater Quebec City metropolitan area and returned clean and sorted items. Partagec launders more than 400,000 pounds per week, which represents 900,000 pieces of linen a week, including sheets, drapes, patient gowns, towels, bibs, diapers, and all the other laundry utilized by healthcare professionals and patients. Operating two shifts per day five days a week out of its 80,000-square-foot facility, Partagec employs 124 full-time and 50 part-time people.