Medical facilities, especially hospitals, are taking great strides to reduce facility-acquired infections. With scrubEx and alEx, your linen is always covered and isolated from anyone that is not an authorized user, minimizing exposures. Many Surgery Directors tell us they see different people in their OR wearing scrubs that were worn into the facility, which does not comply with their infection control policy. With scrubEx, only authorized users can get access to hospital-issued scrubs. Additionally, scrubEx can monitor these users, and alert you, if they are not following the policy of changing into a professionally laundered scrub suit, nor returning it at the end of the day for proper cleaning. (Read the Wall Street Article regarding scrubs and germs.)
The Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) sets standards for healthcare organizations and issues accreditation to organizations that meet those standards. JCAHO regulations require all linen to be covered. Unfortunately, it generally takes two hands to take linen from a cart, making it cumbersome to follow this simple requirement. For this reason, it is typical to find linen uncovered as you walk through a hospital, which leaves the linen exposed to the environment. With alEx, your linen is always covered with an automated door complying with JCAHO requirements and protecting your linen at all times. Control Linen. Control Infection.
