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I once worked in a hospital in nursing. I always knew of departments like this and wondered how their area was run. I certainly appreciated those who were the hidden but critical back bone of every thing us nurses needed.
@@cosplaycierra151 I do the truck driving 5 to load it from the hospital and sometimes I help tear open the bags and put them down the chutes to me it doesn't smell that bad
My aunt worked in a place like this back in the 70’s for years before it was automated and she would find all kinds of things left in doctors pockets. She also broke just about every finger on her hands pulling sheets and other laundry out of the washers and dryers. She never had them set correctly and was in pain the rest of her life.
I did not expect to have my mind blown with “hospital laundry,”. I thought meh I suppose I’ll watch it and then Blam - WTF? So many complex machines!! So automated!!! Wow. Just wow. Not what I was expecting.
I repair certain industrial laundry machines. Those looked like the Milnor tunnel washers & machines there . They're beast. I'm currently trying to help salvage a small business that's been around 100 years, older then the local hospital. All operated by people not many machines and its 120 degrees all day long .
Funny story: I was in a local laundromat several years ago. It was typical: sort of clean when the right person was on duty. I chatted with the lady while she folded. She was folding gowns etc because the place serviced our local VA hospital.
@@ericpham4011 I mean while I understand what you mean. Living your life can be done, it may not always go the way we want or be easy. But it is possible to live a good life.
I used to work at a tuxedo rental place, we're headed to all the sorting and all this shit by hand this is like a minor miracle. I did always like finding stuff in the pockets left by renters though.
In the late 1980's and early 1990's, whilst at university (Bristol, UK), I worked in a hospital laundry during the holiday's. We sorted the laundry prior to washing. This was a psychiatric hospital and older people's hospital, so a lot of the bed linin and clothing was soiled. Laundry was just tipped on the floor and we sorted it - no conveyor belt. Dirty, boring back breaking work, but the money was good. We had a small bonus for working with the soiled laundry and would also get a bonus if we processed more items than the weekly base number.
I HATE doing laundry so I can’t imagine doing laundry for a living. Other people’s laundry too, not even my own. Nope. That sounds like a nightmare job to me. No way.
I'd rather be doing manual labor because I'm better at that. Its not just what's easy for some people, its what's stimulating. Some people, myself included, go absolutely nuts at any monotonous job. These jobs are great for people who may have physical disabilities though, but there should be a way for mental stimulation around the job too, otherwise I can see a lot of people going crazy doing the same thing over and over and over and over and over...
I had a coworker who used to do industrial hospital laundry. He said by the time the chemicals are done, the only things left (aside from the laundry) are corn and teeth. No clue if it’s true or not, but it sounds pretty plausible.
yes and no, i currently work there and there are still a lot of linen that comes through stained. it gets separated out and dyed pink and shipped to ambulance companies.
And I thought they were clean an new sheets but I realize they’re the same sheets that we and other patients have slept on or been on and they circle back to the same places and same sheets 😯
As someone who cleaned hospital rooms for almost a year, cleaning rags, mops, and other cleaning items are cleaned in the hospital in their laundry. Everything else is loading into large plastic carts in the soiled room, a Janitor goes by every so often to trade the full bins out and take the full ones down to Janitorial to wait for the truck. HOWEVER at the one I worked at, the hallway that lead to where the truck is, shared the hallway with food and nutrition, so the cooks were tracking any gross stuff dropped on its way to the trucks or the trash compactor. Also every few years they redo the designs on their items and give the old ones away before they are tossed. I took a truck load of blankets and baby items to a women's shelter when I could.
I just got a job at one of the industrial laundry services. I'm sorting the dirty laundry and either throwing it up a chute (can only do that with the restaurant items) or load the medical on a conveyor belt by hand. We wear face masks and we switch our gloves, smocks and aprons after we're done with the biohazrd medical bags. We also sanitize our work station and the conveyor belt afterwards. The soiled blankets, sheets, tablecloths, and semi heavy soiled washcloths can get really heavy. We're on our feet all day and the hours are difficult (3 am start time) and the restaurant linen can get incredibly gross. The job is definitely not for everyone. Each site does things differently. So this is not always the way its done.
Look at how filthy the washing drum is, disgusting place. Doesn't look like it was cleaned properly at all. And they don't even steam sterilize the items or pass them through a press, it's all crumbled up and shitty going back. Tragic.
Laundry doesn't need to be "sterile" like surgical tools or surgical linens. They even said in this video surgical clothes are different and disposable. I don't handle my own laundry with gloves once they're clean out of worry I'd dirty them... It's not the food industry.
I use to work as the driver for a business like this. Ive found a phone before. There was once a syringe found. The company fined the hospital it came from. I assume non of that money went to the person who found it or was exposed to it.
I am in the soiled section of a job like this. I sort the restaurant items and medical items. In the medical items I found a pair of socks, a large really nice blanket and in the restaurant items I found several gift cards (haven't checked them) and was told some of the birthday cards can have money in them. 😊 it's as dirty as you might think. It's VERY common to find molded wash cloths and even molded dinner rolls. 🤢
it's not just hospitals, hospice (the elderly centers) send it as well. they use large trucks and make multiple stops per day in a 60-100 mile radius. some hospitals are so large they require THOUSANDS of pieces/pounds per day as well.
There are very powerful machines and people are also doing very good work. Hello my name is jack. I live in Dubai and here I do laundry work, my job is and I am trying to go to another country and do laundry work so that I can gain experience. If your company or any of you can help me please, I need a job. I want to come.
I work for one of these factories. the one I work for is ALOT different but a lot of similar machines, also made by the same company that made those machines.
standing at a folding machine for 10 or 12 hours a day make your feet and back hurt so bad. standing on 6000 psi industrial concrete for 12 hours sucks. he is one tough dude. this kind of work sucks bad.
Whenever I am in the hospital I wonder if I am wearing a gown or sleeping on sheets someone died in or on. What disease did the previous person have, or did they shit and piss the bed? Just something to think about.
I've spent a lot of time in several hospitals over the years and have never seen anything super soiled or damaged. Maybe a small spot or two. It leads me to believe that those items are throughly cleaned or tossed out.
I am in charge of a shift at one of these laundries and let me tell you the way this laundry handles this is way different then what we do. First we sort the linen when its still dirty at my place. Second. We keep all the color and white linen separate to keep whites white and colors color. Third. We fold everything nothing gets bagged up and just send back. Fourth we iron press sheets, pillow cases and scrubs. And last we make sure we dont send back any linen with stains. So anything that looks like it wasn’t washed correctly goes into a re wash pile and let me tell you about 25 percent of the hospitals linen is sent back for re wash. Also the heavy soil ( shit and blood) is washed at least twice and most of the time the linen looks like normal linen after the wash cycles. So the next time your at a hospital you could very well be using a patient gown that was once full of blood or feces from the person before.
Yup. I work for one of the major machine companies within the laundry industry, and I have to agree with you. The way they do this... is kinda weird, I feel like. I've yet to see a laundry bag linen like that (except for mops, but that's a whole different story). I feel like they could've found a newer/better laundry to show off, as this one seems like it's quite out-of-date.
Any tips on how to get rid of blood stains at home? You know, lady's recyclable cloth pads. Bleach hasn't worked, nor has vinegar and sodium bicarbonate.
@@practicalpen1990 We use industrial grade chlorine. And peroxide to get the blood stains out. The chlorine is very strong though. I’m talking about so strong it will burn your skin. A lot of the time if the blood is very soaked into the linens the stain will not come out and we just throw it away and replace with new linen instead.
I spend a lot of time in the hospital unfortunately and think about this/try not to think about this a lot... Unless every single one of those wash cycles is with hydrochloric acid or some shit there is no way that stuff will ever be clean. 🤣 This is the best horror film I've seen in a long time.
No, First treatment in the building Is industial water when Is accettabile to discharge in the sewer it is discharged in It and then reaches the WWTP, It Is delivered to the Ocean clean like was taken from a well
standing at a folding machine for 12 hours a day make your feet and back hurt so bad. standing on 6000 psi industrial concrete for 12 hours sucks. Stay in school kids. get a real education and a career. become a Doctor or something.
oof, sounds like you know this from experience; that sounds like torture. hope your back is ok, they should at least give you guys chairs or something. on the bright side, as education rates increase, maybe one day, people willing to work those jobs will dwindle as the older, more experienced people die out/are too beaten up to continue, with no replacements because the younger workforce will all have more options and either won't do those jobs at all, or only stay for a few years while they're in school and thus dropping productivity, forcing employers to automate all they can and improve conditions for the stuff they can't.