The Healthcare Laundry Accreditation Council (HLAC) has announced the upcoming formal introduction of its new HLAC Laundry Process Monitoring ToolKit during the CLEAN 2019 show, which will be held June 20 to 23 in New Orleans (booth #4610). HLAC is a nonprofit organization that inspects and accredits laundries processing textiles for hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare facilities.
"HLAC developed PMTK to respond to the challenge for operators to continually know how well their processes are performing and whether their standards are on target as originally intended," said Gregory Gicewicz, who heads the committee that developed the ToolKit on behalf of HLAC, in a statement.
According to HLAC, PMTK is vastly different in scale from anything else currently available in the industry. It employs an extraction technique designed to recover the most accurate representation of contamination on laundry media.
With this data in hand, the laundry may adjust accordingly the effectiveness of its overall plant hygiene, wash and hand-hygiene processes.
