Enjoy Laundry Management Savings

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Enjoy Laundry Management
Savings
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Our Mission

• To establish a business partnership
• while implementing effective,
• comprehensive in-facility
• linen management solutions
• for healthcare and industrial corporations.

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Why PII?

• Powell Industries Inc.s innovative approaches
  in linen management has created new awareness of
  total containment for all of its clients.
• Our consultants are specialist at identifying
  effective solutions for the most perplexing linen
  distribution systems across the country.

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If You Have Linenitis . . .

• Astronomical linen expenditures
• Excessive/inadequate linen par levels
• Sporadic linen deliveries
• Linen misuse and abuse
• Linen theft
• Scrub management
• Unhappy patients, doctors, nurses, CNAs, students
  and administrators

. . . You Need PII
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What PII Can DoFor You

• Facility overview analysis
• Usage analysis
• Inventory and cost containment recommendations
• In-service education
• Develop, implement, and customize distribution
  systems

• Develop accurate par levels for every usage area
• Develop revenue enhancing opportunities
• Departmental staffing
• Develop linen policies and procedures
• Reduce pounds per patient day, cost per patient
  day and cost per pound

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Pounds/Patient Day Comparison
PIIclient
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Pounds/Patient Day Before and After PII
The Regional Medical Center, 1998-1999
PII October through May
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Cost/Patient Day Comparison
PII client
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Linen Cost/Pound Comparison
PIIclient
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Central Laundry Linen management Software System

• Within large central laundries, there is a need
  for systems
• to manage linen flow throughout the operation.
  The
• following systems provide a complete loop control
  system.
• Shipping System
• A weight-based system that allows for the capture
  of total
• weight being shipped, total soil being received
  and tracking
• of linen carts as they are shipped to customer
  sites.
• Linen Quota Management System
• Represents daily linen requirements for all
  customers,
• prints linen orders that are filled in a
  production facility,
• provides analysis for production requirements,
  labor
• costs and billing.

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Central Laundry, cont . . .

• Uniform Tracking System
• By employing bar code technology, this system
  provides
• comprehensive tracking of scrub suits, lab coats,
  patient
• linen and hospital-owned linen.
• Linen Billing System
• Models all billing requirements that may be
• encountered by a linen management facility,
• such as weight, piece, soil ratio and linen loss.
• Linen Inventory Management System
• Comprehensive management of linen inventory.
• Provides detailed analysis reports of new and
  used
• inventory.

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Hospital Linen Management Systems

• Hospital linen Management products provide linen
  managers
• within the hospital with computerized tools to
  assist with the
• daily management of linen. Currently we have two
  products
• that can either be operated as standalone
  solutions, or they can
• be interfaced to systems that reside at a
  central laundry facility.
• Hospital Linen Management System
• Integrates hospitals and long-term health care
  facilities with
• a centralized linen provider, and provides
  analysis and an
• electronic solution that allows linen to be
  ordered from a central
• laundry.
• Hospital Uniform Management System
• Provides hospitals with the tools for
  accountability for uniform
• losses and usage.

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Our Goals

• To work as a partnership with your facility
• Reduce overall linen expenses by 15-25 or more
• Improve the quality of patient care
• Develop and implement best practices

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References

• Hospital Services, Inc. Columbia, South Carolina
• Southern Oregon Linen Services, Medford, Oregon
• All About Temps, Newport News, VA
• Karen Paradee, NSM, Sewing Source
• Shared Hospital Services Inc., Portsmouth, VA