Posted on Tuesday, January 26, 2016 at 7:00 am CST
Cubicle curtains are one of the vehicles for pathogens in a medical facility—often harboring potentially deadly pathogens like MRSA or VRE—and infection preventionists sometimes struggle to adequately address properly cleaning and handling them. The struggle is due to both the lack of resources to manage the curtains and the rate of contamination: In one CDC study, 92% of cubicle curtains were infected one week after being hung.
Source: ImageFIRST San Antonio
Posted on Tuesday, December 29, 2015 at 7:00 am CST
By far, one of the most important aspects of any patient's experience at a healthcare facility is how they are cared for by staff members. Nurses, in particular, are essential to providing patients with effective, compassionate care.
Source: ImageFIRST San Antonio
Posted on Monday, November 30, 2015 at 7:00 am CST
From day one, ImageFIRST San Antonio, a medical scrubs and linen provider in San Antonio, TX, has sought to build a great company that achieves remarkable things for its associates, community, customers and patients. The company is well aware that, in order to achieve this goal and support its customers through their daily operation of healthcare facilities, each ImageFIRST location must periodically find ways to offer even better service to its customers and develop even closer relationships with them.
Source: ImageFIRST San Antonio
Posted on Friday, October 23, 2015 at 3:00 pm CDT
Being a business leader takes more than product innovation and financial success. In addition to constantly improving and expanding upon its services, ImageFIRST San Antonio makes community involvement an integral part of its remarkable company culture. ImageFIRST, the nation's foremost provider of quality medical linen and laundry, knows that leadership also takes a strong company culture and community involvement. Recently, the ImageFIRST San Antonio associates participated in a Community Giving Day event at the San Antonio Food Bank.
Source: ImageFIRST San Antonio
Posted on Monday, October 05, 2015 at 12:00 pm CDT
ImageFIRST San Antonio, the city's largest linen and laundry service exclusively serving medical facilities, prioritizes hygiene and sanitization in all of their services. Preventing hospital-acquired infections is an arduous task, and ImageFIRST San Antonio takes special care to launder and prepare their products for delivery in order to minimize the risk of contamination to the fullest extent. Since ImageFIRST San Antonio cares about the success of their clients, as well as the health of patients visiting their clients' facilities, they have shared a recent study on hospital hygiene procedures.
Source: ImageFIRST San Antonio