In 2015, researchers examined linens at a laundry facility that services six hospitals, 30 local outpatient clinics and the Washington National Primate Research Center, all located in the Seattle area ...

Alana Ross and Daniel McCarthy, whose late child’s remains were lost, are suing Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Boston hospital where Ross gave birth, The New York Times reports. Ross gave birth to ...

The distraught parents of a premature baby are suing the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston after claims that an employee threw out their daughter’s body — days after she died — along with soiled ...

Long-term care facilities and other healthcare providers are not required to dispose of contaminated linen as “regulated waste,” the Occupational Safety and Health Administration clarified in a recent ...

Everleigh Victoria McCarthy's parents sued Brigham and Women's Hospital on Thursday. "We don't want anybody else to go through this," Everleigh's mother, Alana Ross, said. A Boston couple are suing ...

The parents of a premature baby who survived for 12 days are suing a Boston hospital for losing their child’s remains as the grieving family prepared to bury her. Everleigh Victoria McCarthy was born ...

The parents of a premature baby girl have claimed she was thrown out with soiled linen – just days after she died. Alana Ross and Daniel McCarthy’s daughter Everleigh was born in Boston on July 25 ...

New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Medical Center faces more than $201K in health and safety violations, after an Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigation revealed the ...

UPMC Shadyside in Pittsburgh did not store clean and soiled linen according to proper standards, according to the findings of an unannounced inspection conducted by the Pennsylvania Department of ...

Nearly every patient who enters a hospital comes in contact with its linens: towels, sheets, patient gowns and more. And while a number of organizations have guidelines about how such linens should be ...

There’s a lot of behind-the-scenes work that goes on at hospitals and some of it is laundry. About 12 years ago, Texas Healthcare Linen was formed in Abilene to handle laundry from local and regional ...