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Infection prevention is paramount in the medical industry. ImageFIRST Detroit, the premier medical uniform linen service around Grand Rapids, MI, recognizes the importance of properly protecting from infection and reinfection within healthcare facilities. ImageFIRST has over 50 years of expertise in providing clean, comfortable linens and gowns to medical facilities across Detroit. The company is effective when preventing infection of their linen and often share resources and studies on the matter to their partners.

Preventing hospital-acquired infections continues to be one of the healthcare industry's critical points of concern. According to the CDC, roughly one in 25 hospital patients has a healthcare-associated infection (HAI) on any given day. Over the past several years, the CDC has observed a decrease in the overall HAI rate, but there is still much work for providers to do in order to bring that rate down to zero. Increasingly, this ongoing challenge has providers seeking infection prevention solutions in innovative ways. ImageFIRST Detroit, a medical laundry, uniform and linen service in Grand Rapids, MI, recently shared an example of creative infection prevention that reflects their own values as an innovative medical linen and laundry vendor.

In the past decade, the healthcare industry has experienced some of the most significant changes compared to other industries that inevitably bring with them corresponding challenges. Some of the challenges that healthcare providers face entail the ongoing improvement of infection prevention, the patient experience, and cost management. As a leading healthcare linen provider of medical scrubs and other products in Detroit, MI, ImageFIRST addresses the challenges of the medical field with their topnotch processes and services.

ImageFIRST Detroit is always looking for, and admiring, innovative work in the medical industry. In fact, the company was pleased to discover the implementation of the concept integrated facility design at The Children's Hospital of Michigan – Troy. Recently, a team of about 100 physicians, nurses, and other support staff from the hospital embraced integrated facility design, a Lean technique, to maximize efficiency and improve the overall patient experience.

Pathogens that cause healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) can creep into many locations in a hospital, including those that even experienced healthcare professionals may not expect. According to a recent report from the American Journal of Infection Control, 92% of the hospital privacy curtains – also known as "cubicle curtains" – tested by a research group were contaminated with dangerous bacteria, including MRSA and VRE within a week of their last laundering. Frequently touched by staff but infrequently cleaned, cubicle curtains have become a veritable nightmare for those determined to prevent the spread of disease.

Patients' reported satisfaction in their overall medical experience is of increasing importance when it comes to finding ways to improve performance and reduce patient discomfort and, in November, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reflected this trend by approving the administration of a CAHPS survey directed specifically at Outpatient and Ambulatory Surgery (OAS) facilities. Centers and surgery departments that fall into these categories will be required to administer the survey after 2017 – meaning an increased focus on enhanced patient experience is now happening across the nation. While many factors can influence a patient's experience during their care, there's one that's easy to change: comfort. With healthcare laundry services and uniquely cozy gowns from ImageFIRST Detroit's Comfort Care line, hospitals can make a major impact on overall patient perception of their facilities by switching to this innovative, unbelievably soft product.

At ImageFIRST, a nationwide provider of healthcare laundry services to hospitals and outpatient facilities, the company's customers and the communities in which they live and work are at the heart of their purpose. ImageFIRST locations across the country choose charitable causes to sponsor and work with through company-wide volunteer days; these causes are often customers of ImageFIRST, who work hard to provide remarkable healthcare services to their patients. ImageFIRST Detroit has recently announced that they will be sponsoring the Euro-Peds Foundation's First Step Gala at the Detroit Athletic Club.

At the Euro-Peds Foundation in North Oakland, Detroit, children requiring intensive physical therapy are able to receive progressive physical therapy (PT) that was formerly only available in Eastern and Western European countries. Founded at the urging of parents whose daughter showed remarkable improvements after participating in such a program in Poland, the Euro-Peds Foundation now brings the same medical knowledge closer to home, and also provides home-care education to caretakers of children with non-progressive neuromuscular disorders. ImageFIRST Detroit, which provides healthcare laundry services to the Euro-Peds Foundation and many other local healthcare facilities, is proud to announce its volunteer participation in the annual Euro-Peds Family Fun Day.

There is a proven link between the satisfaction of environmental services staff with the culture of their company, and the quality of the products and services they provide – especially in the healthcare industry. A variety of empathetic leadership tactics, including asking employees for their insight on problems, have been shown to be successful at inspiring workers, solving common issues and improving sanitation. Often, one of the improvements suggested is that sanitary measures be made easier and faster to implement on the part of hospital staff, to ensure more time is available for patient care. ImageFIRST Detroit, providing healthcare laundry services to Michigan-area hospitals and outpatient facilities, helps medical staff to apply themselves fully to their patients and less to ancillary tasks by providing easy, convenient access to sanitary healthcare laundry linens and other products.

The risk of healthcare-associated infections continues to be a challenge and a major focus for hospitals and medical facilities across the US. Recently, studies have shown that one of the places where potentially dangerous viruses and bacteria are likely to quickly and frequently accumulate is on the privacy curtains of hospitals, putting the patients at risk. The ImageFIRST Detroit location has announced it is now offering a new Cubical Curtain Program to help hospitals prevent the spread of potentially dangerous bacteria, a program also available through many other of the company's other locations nationwide.