Hospital Linen Supply
Hospital linen supplies include scrub wear, patient gowns, thermal blankets, hospital sheets, pediatric gowns, pillow cases, towels, surgical linen, and many other hospital supplies. Clean linen supply and management services are some of the vital elements for hospitals in providing high quality medical care to the patients. Hospital linen supply and management services plays major role in reducing infection rate, increase patient satisfaction and reduce operational costs for hospitals. Efficient supply and management of linen without any defect and delay becomes good support for hospitals to deliver satisfactory healthcare services to the patients. Medical facilities like Intensive Care Units (ICUs) and Operation Theatres (OT) demands more frequent linen supply.
Geographically, North America represents the largest market of hospital linen supply and management services. The growth is mainly attributed to the presence of key players like Angelica Corporation, ImageFIRST Healthcare Laundry Specialists and Healthcare Services Group, Inc. This factor would increase the quality of services in North America and hence drives the market growth of hospital linen supply and management services. Europe is considered as the second largest market of hospital linen supply and management services owing to increasing demand of linen supply by healthcare facilities in Europe. In addition, Asia-Pacific region is the emerging market and holds immense growth opportunities for hospital linen supply and management services because of increasing number of medical facilities coupled with development of healthcare infrastructure in Asia-Pacific region. This factor would in turn increase the demand of hospital linen supply and management services hence stimulate the market growth.
